Campus Internships
A CoPIRG student chapters internship gives you the opportunity to take your education out of the classroom, do hands-on work, learn important skills, and make a direct impact on public interest issues. And you may be able to receive course credit for your Internship.
CoPIRG student chapters offers internships on all of our campaigns. The primary entry-level internships are:
Organizing Internship
Organizing internships give students an opportunity to coordinate a CoPIRG student chapters campaign on campus or in the community. Students work closely with CoPIRG student chapters staff to develop coalitions, recruit volunteers, coordinate events and strategize for victory.
Grassroots Internship
Demonstrating public support is integral in winning public interest campaigns. All CoPIRG student chapters projects include grassroots organizing, and grassroots interns are an important piece of concentrating public concern.
Internet Internship
The internet has become a powerful organizing tool on college campuses. Students increasingly use the internet as their primary medium for news, research, and communication. Internet interns play a key roll in recruiting students, communicating the goals and accomplishments of the chapter, and building support for CoPIRG student chapters campaigns through email and other online forums.
Media Internship
Alerting the public through the media is a key part of all CoPIRG student chapters projects. CoPIRG student chapters media interns work to use newspapers, television and radio news to educate the public about issues that concern them. In addition to learning important media skills, interns do great public interest work. In just the past thirteen years alone, media interns have helped to pull over 60 dangerous toys from the shelves through their annual Toy Safety press conferences.
Research Internship
The problems that face our society seem complex and often daunting. CoPIRG student chapters research interns take important information, cut through any confusion, and present that information in a way that both educates and activates the campus and the community. In recent years, CoPIRG student chapters research has documented consumer scams like high bank and credit card fees.
Program Internship
Program Interns will have the opportunity to work on a variety of issues bringing together research, media work, and organizing, while learning to effectively make a difference on some of the most important issues facing this generation of college students.
To find out how to apply for an internship on your campus, fill out this form.
