Internships
January 20, 2022
Counting eggs and logging hours at Miller Poultry
Spanning from Dec. 13 to Jan. 7, the Miller Poultry internship provided five Goshen students with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the day-to-day operations of a large, family-owned poultry company. “I was in the room where they cut off the heads,” said Caleb Shenk, a sophomore accounting major who took part in the internship. “There were the chickens coming down the line, and they had their heads. Then they went through this machine, and they did not have their heads. It was very bloody.” Miller Poultry’s four-week internship was not for the faint of heart. Following the submission of...
January 24, 2020
Interpreting majors venture far and wide for internships
This semester, the sign language interpreting department saw a record 12 students venture to 10 different states across the country to grow their interpreting skills in semester-long internships. This year, two students figured northern Indiana wasn’t cold enough during the winter and made their way to Anchorage, Alaska, where they are stationed to spend three months at the Alaska School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Emma Henderson, a senior, explained her decision to venture 4,000 miles away for the internship. “There is a shortage of interpreters here,” Henderson said, “and I specifically wanted a full time setting in...
February 8, 2019
Career Networks event promotes value of summer internships
Though summer seems like a lifetime away, David Kendall suggests that students start searching for their summer internships now. That’s why Kendall, coordinator of the Career Networks Office, hosted an event on Tuesday evening with enFocus to equip students with the tools they need to search, find and obtain a “worthwhile professional experience,” said Kendall. EnFocus, an organization located in South Bend and soon Elkhart, works with college students and recent graduates to help impact communities within the area. Each summer, enFocus hires 15 interns and then finds several government-owned entities and private organizations within the Saint Joseph and Elkhart...
September 8, 2016
Students spend a summer serving as part of the Inquiry Program
This summer, 15 Goshen College students had the opportunity to explore vocational interests of theirs while simultaneously developing their own faith experiences through Goshen’s Inquiry Programs. The Inquiry Program consists of 3 subsections: camping, ministry and service. Each one invites students who have been accepted into the program to spend three months at a camp, congregation, service agency or any another related agreed upon placement. All host sites are church related placements and offer plenty of new connections to organizations. Host sites and students alike have noted the strength of the bonds created over these three months of community building,...
March 17, 2016
ASL seniors complete their internships across the country
For most ASL students, the spring semester of their senior year is spent at an internship somewhere across the country. This semester, five students, Adriene Hendricks, Bryan Palmer, Danielle Kerschhackl, Jessica Morrin and Lydia King, have placements in a state other than Indiana. Hendricks is in Detroit, Michigan; Palmer is in Boston, Massachusetts; Kerschhackl is in Miami, Florida; Morrin is in Greensboro, North Carolina; and King is in Knoxville, Tennessee. While the students are at their internships interpreting for a number of Deaf clients, they keep in contact with Colleen Geier, program director and a professor of ASL interpreting. “I’m...
February 19, 2015
Film students spend semester in L.A.
Benson Hostetter and Jared Zook, senior communications majors with a concentration in film, are currently studying at the Los Angeles Film Studies Center located in West Hollywood. Hostetter and Zook road tripped to California the week before classes began, spending time with several of Hostetter’s relatives. Upon arrival in LA, the two had a weeklong program orientation. The LA Film Studies Center runs every semester and hosts about 50 students this spring from students in colleges from around the country. Their purpose is to “train students to serve in various aspects of the film industry with both professional skill...
January 22, 2015
ASL students intern across the country
In the last few weeks, senior American Sign Language (ASL) majors have dispersed throughout the country to complete their internship requirements. According to ASL professor Colleen Geier, these internships are the capstone of Goshen’s ASL program. Finding an internship is an intense process. Students must develop resumes, make videos of themselves interpreting and apply to several agencies at once. Agencies can be as choosy as they want, so students need to be prepared for not necessarily getting their top choice. But once the students start their internships, the hard work begins to pay off. According to Mia Engle, one of...
January 29, 2014
ASL Internships Open Doors for Students
This semester, five senior ASL majors left campus to go on internships around the country. They were Anna Latsha, working in Dallas, Texas; Stacy Wyse in Philadelphia, Penn.; Rosa Wyse in Nashville, Tenn.; Christine Stubblefield in Baton Rouge, La.; and Keyonna McCain in Greensboro, N.C. According to Colleen Geier, director of American Sign Language Interpreting at Goshen College, each of these internships involves working within an interpreting agency. Every day, these students go to different assignments given to them by their agencies. “These assignments might be for medical appointments, same day surgery, medical tests, physical therapy, college classes, business meetings,...
April 10, 2013
Unpaid internships: the good, the bad and the ugly
Students at Goshen College and around the U.S. are taking unpaid internships at higher rates than in years past. In April 2010, the U.S. Department of Labor published a fact sheet to ensure that unpaid interns working for “for-profit” businesses were not taken advantage of or used to perform menial tasks. According to the New York Times, if employers do not want to pay their interns, "the internships must resemble vocational education, the interns must work under close supervision, their work cannot be used as a substitute for regular employees and their work cannot be of immediate benefit to the...
January 19, 2012
Lehman’s whole “New World”
When senior Matt Lehman began his theater internship last fall, he had high hopes. Taking a break from working with the Goshen College theater department this semester, Lehman frequently commutes a few blocks from campus to New World Arts in downtown Goshen. Lehman has spent the last few months fulfilling the 120-hour internship requirement that is required to graduate with a theater major. Thus far, joining the crew at New World Arts, a community theater company, has proved to be a valuable experience. Although New World is local, Lehman’s time there has opened his eyes to an entirely different way...
November 19, 2009
GC Student Learns with Lizards in Dominican Republic
Raising rhinoceros iguanas for an eco-tourism organization isn’t the first thing that pops to mind upon hearing the word “internship,” but for Hannah W. Miller, a senior in Goshen College’s environmental science program, that’s just what it meant. In the summer of 2009, Miller spent six weeks at El Iguanario, an organization in the Dominican Republic that raises Cyclura cornuta (rhinoceros iguanas) with the hopes of releasing them into the wild sometime in the future. El Iguanario is operated out of a single small house in the village of Los Tocones, on the Samaná peninsula of Hispañola, the Caribbean island...