Create change now—get involved in the community.
Your voice matters. In Champlain’s School of Social Innovation, you’ll be making a difference in your first year.
The world needs young leaders engaging in local and global communities, and you shouldn’t have to wait until after graduation to do it. By engaging in field internships while in college, you can start your work now, develop real-world skills, and make a lasting impact.
Because you’ll start taking classes in your major in your first semester, you’ll be qualified sooner for real-world experiences. With as many as four years of field placements, internships, and externships on your resume, you will stand out as a professional and leader in your field.
A Champlain education provides the skills you need to create positive change for people and the environment. Our students are highly sought after for these positions because they have been so well prepared in the classroom; you’ll be ready to do good work.
Recent Internship Locations for School of Social Innovation Students
How We Prepare You for Experiential Learning
We want you to be well prepared for your first internship, externship, or other fieldwork. After your first year of exploratory practical education, you’ll be ready to work with your Career Advisor to take the next step.
- The Upside-Down Curriculum allows you to get extensive classroom learning and hands-on experience with industry professionals in your first year, which gives you the real-world skills and qualifications needed to begin taking an internship or externship as early as the summer before your sophomore year.
- Champlain’s Career Collaborative will help you develop your professional résumé and hone your interview skills. Early on in your studies, you’ll be able to show employers what you know.
- Your professors will become your reliable mentors, pointing out the strategic academic and co-curricular activities that will help you build your professional skill set and enhance your résumé.
Local and national employers turn to Champlain for college interns because they are better prepared to work in professional environments than the majority of their peers from other institutions. Many Champlain graduates receive full- and part-time job offers from the organizations where they first took their internships or externships.