Accounting Internships: A Student-Driven Approach

An innovative approach to student internships on American Indian reservations.

Personnel shortages are evident for a number of disciplines in the health professions, from physicians to nurses. Project CRISTAL (Collaborative Rural Interdisciplinary Service Training and Learning) was designed to immerse students in rural and reservation communities and encourage them to consider practicing in locations that have shortages of health care providers. Students gain an understan...

Reforming the Regulation of Student Internships

Economic Policy institutE • 1333 H strEEt, nW • suitE 300, East toWEr • WasHington, dc 20005 • 202.775.8810 • WWW.EPi.org Despite internships’ importance to the labor market as a crucial form of vocational training and pre-employment vetting, they are only loosely regulated through vague and outdated employment law. Moreover, these regulations go essentially unenforced. As this paper demonstrat...

Assessing Student-Generated Design Justifications in Virtual Engineering Internships

Engineering virtual internships are simulations where students role play as interns at fictional companies, working to create engineering designs. To improve the scalability of these virtual internships, a reliable automated assessment system for tasks submitted by students is necessary. Therefore, we propose a machine learning approach to automatically assess student generated textual design j...

A multiyear approach to student-driven investigations in exercise physiology.

Many undergraduate institutions offer individual research opportunities for upper-level students in independent study courses and summer undergraduate research programs. These are necessarily limited to a small number of students. Greater numbers of students can benefit from incorporating student-directed investigative experiences into laboratories in standard courses. In human performance inve...

Food Safety Accounting: As a Novel Interdisciplinary Approach in Iran