Community-Based Internships: How Hybridized High-Impact Practice Affects Students, Community Partners, and the University

• In Event: 67.069 - Sheraton Roundtable 14 - Osgoode Ballroom
  In Roundtable Session: 67.069-7 - Engaging With Communities: Partnerships and Impact

Abstract

This participatory action research project seeks to uncover how participation in a community-based internship program (CBIP), a hybridized high-impact practice, at a large urban public university affects undergraduate students, community partners, and the university. Robust knowledge regarding the high-impact practices of service-learning and internships already exist, yet there is a lack of knowledge regarding the hybridization of these practices. The results demonstrate that stakeholders experience positive effects of participation in a CBIP and that these effects translate into beneficence for the wider community. Yet, the student experience indicates that these effects are complex and sometimes cause students to struggle within the program. The findings indicate that there is a need to explore the root causes student struggles in CBIPs.

Author

• Benjamin William Trager, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee