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The Ethics Internship Program is a very important part of the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life’s (IPE) overall program for undergraduate students. The summer internships were started with funds from the Donchian Foundation and maintained with funds from the family of the late John Allen and Patricia Hollingsworth, from Michael Ross, from Missy Casscell, and from other donors as a way to integrate ethical theory and practice, the real-world and the academy. Student interns combine their summer experience with preparatory courses and post-internship narrative and analytic reports and discussions. Students have a variety of placements in private (both for-profit and not-for-profit) and governmental contexts in both domestic and international settings, and, as noted below, may involve research, service, or learning or some combination of these.
For
examples, see the the following:
Matt Kelly, "Students help build public policy," Inside
UVA, Oct. 19, 2001
www.virginia.edu/insideuva/2001/33/policy.html
Ben Cooper, "Pharmaceuticals and Frogs," Oculus, Fall 2006, pp.54 (55 in pdf.)-71.
http://www.virginia.edu/cue/urn/Oculus_Fall_2006.pdf
Internship
Program:With support from the Hollingsworth family and others, the IPE sponsors and provides funds for several summer internships, which are awarded on a competitive basis. The Institute expects to fund fifteen to twenty internships for Summer 2013.
Expectations:Those who receive awards will be expected to spend at least eight weeks in an internship (approved by the IPE), to meet with faculty at the IPE (and perhaps with other interns) to discuss aspects of their internship before it starts, to prepare, at the end of the summer, an 8-10 page narrative and analysis of the internship, with particular attention to questions and issues of ethics (broadly conceived), and to meet, in the fall semester, with other interns and Institute faculty to discuss their experiences.
Nature
of Internship: Internships take a variety of forms:
- Research
- Service
- Learning
- Some combination of the above three
See the attached list of last summer’s internships to get a sense of their range.
Stipend:The IPE will usually provide a stipend of $2,000.00 toward students’ internships. If the internship is unpaid, a slightly larger stipend may be available in a few cases, depending on location, living arrangements, etc. If the internship is paid, the amount may be reduced in order to make the internships as equitable as possible. We will discuss specific financial arrangements with students after they have received notification of their awards and arranged their internships.
Identification
of Internship Possibilities: While it is up to students to arrange their specific internships, the IPE will provide advice and guidance, including the names of organizations and persons who might have or know of possibilities.
Additional
Information:Please write James F. Childress (childress@virginia.edu) or Ruth Gaare Bernheim (rg3r@virginia.edu) for more information. An information form is available on the IPE’s website: http://www.virginia.edu/ipe/
Deadline
for Application: 5:00 PM, Tuesday, December 04, 2012.
Notification
of Awards: The IPE hopes to announce the awards by early January, 2013 |
