Comments on: Add Meaning to the ACUHO-I Internship Experience http://blog.acuho-i.org/2010/02/add-meaning-to-the-acuho-i-internship-experience/ News by and for college and university housing professionals Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:14:16 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jason Wilt http://blog.acuho-i.org/2010/02/add-meaning-to-the-acuho-i-internship-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-1690 Jason Wilt Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:03:17 +0000 http://blog.acuho-i.org/?p=1926#comment-1690 As a former ACUHO-I intern at this site, I agree fully with these tips. Now that I graduate and working as the Director of Housing at a small community college, I fall back on IUSB experience while making decisions in my work. During that summer, I was really able to see and understand how a small school operation works from the ground up. I also did learn about strategic planning in a way that I never was able to see even during my graduate work. My first ACUHO-I internship experience was not so pleasant. I spent a summer during my undergraduate working conferences while not actually being able to take any ownership. My site-host first told me that I would be taking on supervision responsibilities but never told anyone else at the site that I was suppose to be taking lead on certain initiatives. I left that experience with a little less excitement about the field then I had going into the program. I really do hope that potential host sites really do listen to the advice here, I think they are great points about giving back to the field and making the experience extremely beneficial to people that you select! As a former ACUHO-I intern at this site, I agree fully with these tips. Now that I graduate and working as the Director of Housing at a small community college, I fall back on IUSB experience while making decisions in my work. During that summer, I was really able to see and understand how a small school operation works from the ground up. I also did learn about strategic planning in a way that I never was able to see even during my graduate work.

My first ACUHO-I internship experience was not so pleasant. I spent a summer during my undergraduate working conferences while not actually being able to take any ownership. My site-host first told me that I would be taking on supervision responsibilities but never told anyone else at the site that I was suppose to be taking lead on certain initiatives. I left that experience with a little less excitement about the field then I had going into the program.

I really do hope that potential host sites really do listen to the advice here, I think they are great points about giving back to the field and making the experience extremely beneficial to people that you select!

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