The Internship Course Manager Collective (ICMC) is a cross-departmental group of faculty and staff dedicated to advancing the quality, consistency and impact of experiential learning. Through regular (quarterly) meetings, the group explores industry trends, administrative processes, best practices and shared challenges related to credit-bearing learning experiences. The collective serves as a collaborative forum for aligning academic standards with real-world experiences, ensuring students gain meaningful opportunities that support their academic and career goals.
Our Goals:
- Enhance Curriculum Alignment: Review & refine internship course structures to ensure alignment with academic learning outcomes and industry expectations.
- Promote Consistency in Credits: Develop shared guidelines and frameworks for awarding departmental internship credit (internship, fieldwork, etc) across programs.
- Foster Industry & Community Engagement: Identify and integrate current trends and employer feedback to keep internship experiences relevant and impactful for all stakeholders.
- Support Faculty & Staff Development: Share resources, case studies and strategies to build capacity among internship coordinators and instructors.
- Address Common Challenges: Collaboratively identify and troubleshoot recurring issues with internship administration, such as equity in access, supervision models and assessment practices.
Membership:
The ICMC is open to all faculty and staff involved in internship coordination, curriculum development, academic advising and career services. Join our listserv to stay up to date on upcoming meetings, and email us to access the shared OneDrive of resources.
We recommend that staff who primarily serve as instructors join the Staff Teaching Community, facilitated by Undergraduate Academic Affairs.
