Planning Successful Internships: Matchmaking for Organizational Culture  

The collaborative nature of information development departments create special challenges for student interns, challenges which require that the student, the academic department, and the information development department can meet with careful planning and preparation. An intern must not only be well prepared academically, with knowledge and skills that support a company’s needs; each intern must also understand and accept the organizational culture in which he or she must be deeply involved in order to work and learn effectively. The information development department can use each internship as an occasion to examine its own culture and communication patterns.

Rosenquist, Deborah J. and Katherine E. Staples. STC Proceedings (1994). Academic>Internships