July 6 – August 12, 2011 (six weeks)

Summer Internship Opportunities Needed

Opportunities Requested by April 8, 2011

The UCSD Staff Association is launching a new Career Experiences for High School Students (CEHS) program this summer. We hope to engage diverse, talented high school students from around San Diego County to participate in career training and exploration. The program is designed to encourage students from diverse backgrounds and interests to become the next generation of the highly trained 21st century workforce. Giving students the opportunity to explore and experience a career opportunity prior to pursuing post secondary education will broaden their horizons beyond Internet research alone. Students will be able to explore a broad range of fields, such as linguistics, landscape architecture, machine fabrication, hospitality services, scientific writing, digital music creation and much more, all while gaining valuable and perhaps life-changing experience.

Whether you are looking to recruit talented high school students, expand your staff's skills through the opportunity to train and mentor, or ease department workloads, the Staff Association Career Experiences for High School Students program offers a new summer opportunity that will benefit both your department and talented students looking for career experience while still in high school.

How your department benefits:

• Engages youth in productive activities

• Creates a culture of employment

• Builds a pipeline of talented resources

• Showcases the breadth of career options for students as a course of study, benefiting the campus and the community.

• Increases high school graduation rates

• Increases college enrollment

How the student intern benefits:

• Preparation for real world careers

• Insight into professions and industries

• Integration into existing multidimensional campus work environments leading to rewarding career exploration

• Exposure to a network of professional adults

• Exposure to training, coaching, and mentoring

Students are:

• High school students in their junior or senior year who are at least 16 years of age, possess a valid work permit if under the age of 18, and are a citizen or permanent resident of the United States of its possessions.

• Enrolled in an accredited area high school with a GPA of 3.0 or better

• Selected by you through a written application process Applicants will apply directly for your internship opportunity.

• Matched to criteria you provide in your internship description.

• Part-time and volunteer, up to 20 hours per week

We are asking campus staff to propose exciting opportunities for newly recruited high school students to work with your department in the summer of 2011. Internship opportunities and student prerequisites will be posted on Blink. A community announcement will invite students to view these opportunities and submit applications for their career opportunities of choice.

Internship opportunities (1,000 words or less) from interested staff and departments are requested by April 8, 2011.

Internship opportunities will be posted to the Staff Association website on Blink on April 12, 2011.

Student applications will be due May 5, 2011.

Applications will be given to participating departments on May 15, 2011.

Final selection by participating departments is requested by May 30, 2011.

For more information on this program, guidelines for composing the internship opportunity and information on the student application process, please visit:

http://blink.ucsd.edu/HR/services/associations/SA/CEHS.html or contact:

Lawana Richmond, lrichmond@ucsd.edu x42507

Jennifer Gasner, jgasner@ucsd.edu, x43829

Earline Ventura, ejventura@ucsd.edu, x40129

Daisy Yang, dhyang@ucsd.edu, x46869

Ange Mason, amason@ucsd.edu, x45064