The Intern Experience
An Intern experience at Creative Campus is like being put on a circus-style tight rope in the real world with a safety net beneath you. Even if you fall, you're still part of the show, and you go home knowing how to improve your performance. You become part of a team made up of members with interests and talents different from your own. You learn how to rely upon your team members, and you allow members to rely upon you. You learn to be a leader, an influencer, an organizer, a communicator, and a helper--five roles that are critical to any organization.
A buzzword in today's working world is "interdisciplinary." At Creative Campus, you learn to fuse together multiple arts, sciences, cultures, and talents. The insights you gain from interning with Creative Campus will make you an extremely interdisciplinary individual. Within the walls of Creative Campus' office in Maxwell Hall (and even outside of them), you learn how to make things happen. You learn to delegate and balance workload. Interning is about learning the process and enhancing your skills.
An internship at Creative Campus isn't just a resume builder--it's a kick start to an enjoyable sort of professionalism.
Becoming an Intern
Creative Campus recruits interns each spring beginning in February. Application deadline is midnight on March 1.
2012-2013 Internship Application AVAILABLE NOW!!
Questions about applying? Contact Alexis Clark at alexis.clark@ua.edu, or give the office a call at (205) 348-7887.
Types of Interns
Category 1 Internships are paid positions with a work load of 10 to 20 hours a week. These interns are the heart of Creative Campus, and while working their internship, are the people who turn ideas into action. They work on their own ideas that are generated from within the Creative Campus Initiative and at times other times they work on ideas that are offered to CC from outside sources, like other students, faculty/staff, or community members. These internships offer the most flexibility and opportunity to learn through collaboration.
Category 2 Internships offer similar opportunities as Category 1 with a lower time commitment of 5-10 hours per week and receive a stipend upon completion of a semester's work.
Category 3 Internships offer UA students an opportunity to get their feet wet with assisting Creative Campus projects. As unpaid interns, students are expected to work 1-10 hours per week and are given a panoramic view of what CC is all about.
Category 4 Internships require about 10 hours per week and are ideal for students in TCF, C&BA, NC, and HES' RHM programs. We also work with students in other colleges to receive independent study credit for work done on projects that relate to their academic discipline.
Not sure which type of internship is right for you? Contact alexis.clark@ua.edu
"What is special and unique about The University of Alabama's Creative Campus is the way in which it is student-centered. Everything we do involves the student interns, and that has proven to be so noteworthy that Ohio State University has studied what we're doing, as have representatives from the United Kingdom Arts Council, to see the value of a student-centered initiative. Other institutions work to deepen arts experiences on and off campus. But, to my knowledge, there is nowhere else in the United States where an initiative is so focused on the work and activity of undergraduate and graduate students."
--Dr. Hank Lazer, Associate Provost for academic affairs and Executive Director of the Creative Campus.