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"I'm currently a senior Hospitality and Resort Management major. During my Junior year, I successfully completed a position as a marketing intern with the Brooks Museum's marketing department. It was an incredible chance to view the inside workings of a non-profit museum and get to know about and be involved with the events they presented. This past summer, I was afforded the opportunity to participate in an amazing internship program through the University of Memphis. This program, called The Washington Center for Internships (TWC), set me up with multiple internships from which I was able to choose which offer I wanted to accept based on my interests. TWC set up all the students participating in an apartment in Washington, D.C. where we either walked to or commuted via Metro to work during the business week and we were left to our own musings after work hours and on the weekends! I chose to work as a development intern with the Trust for the National Mall and gained invaluable experience inside a small but powerful non-profit, working with politicians, business leaders, and national planners. With one year left until I graduate, I'm trying to gain access to as many opportunities as are still available to me. Recently I was awarded an internship in Vermont at the Ascutney Mountain Resort, an Orange Lake Resort. I will be rotating throughout all aspects of the hotel operation and enjoying my time in the mountains!"
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Recently the Tennessee Board of Regents began providing funding to assist University of Memphis students participate in The Washington Center for Internships Program. Students submit an application and are selected by a faculty and administrative screening committee. Students accepted by TWC earn academic credit as they complete an internship, an academic course, and a leadership forum in Washington, DC. For more information on the Washington Center Internship program, click here. To apply: click here Or contact Dr. Dixie Crase at drcrase@memphis.edu The following students successfully completed internships in the following Washington Center programs:
Summer 2011
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
Summer 2010
Spring 2010
Fall 2009
As part of The Washington Center Internship Program, students participated in the USAID Conference on Human Trafficking. Spring 2009 - As a part of their DC experience, students were able to attend an oral argument at the Supreme Court, update a resource manual for a local refugee services program, attend the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 congressional hearings, and participate in the Public Policy Dialogues on Capitol Hill. Students completed internships in:
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