OS Internship Opportunities

UM Faculty Senate Office
I have an opportunity for Fall 2004 to pass on to you that many of you will be excited about. There's a position that has been created for OS students in the highest levels of the University of Michigan. This is a learning opportunity similar to an internship. It's unpaid, but I think the benefits you'll receive are well worth it.

SACUA is the University Senate Committee, which makes policy decisions that affect the entire university. The SACUA office is in need of some students to help with research and staff support. As a part of your work there, you will interact with an executive officer and work closely with the faculty Chair on determining the resource materials needed for each of the committee meetings. Your involvement will place you in the midst of some of the most important decision-making processes at the University of Michigan.

See below for more detailed information. If possible, a two-semester commitment is requested. In your application, please include a paragraph stating why you are interested in the position.

To apply: Submit your resume by email to Mary Mandeville (mandevil@umich.edu). She will consider students anytime between now and September.

The Faculty Senate Office (SACUA) provides support for central faculty governance activities including support of the Senate Assembly committees, which advise the executive officers on issues of University policy. The Senate Assembly, SACUA, and their committees are mandated by the Regents to provide faculty input into the policy making process. The executive officer advisory committees are made up of faculty members and students, and meet periodically throughout the academic year. For more detailed information on faculty governance please see the SACUA website. For information on each of the Senate Assembly Committees please click here.

Brascan Financial Real Estate Group
Juniors (and seniors graduating late),
One of the members of the OS Leadership Committee has graciously provided an opportunity for an OS student to complete a paid 10-week internship at his large financial real estate firm in New York. Interested students should submit electronically a resume and a cover letter to me (bkbaum@umich.edu) by April 1. The company will contact directly students they wish to interview (by phone). A link to Branscan Real Estate Partners is included below. The company wants students starting their senior year in OS (graduating students not eligible, unfortunately). See below for a full description of the internship.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 1, 2004
Submit electronically to Bill Kerschbaum (bkbaum@umich.edu)

Details: Brascan Financial Real Estate Group provides extensive financing, advisory and investment services focused solely on the real estate industry throughout North America. As an integral part of Brascan's real estate group, which includes such leading companies as Royal LePage Commercial and Brookfield Properties, Brascan Real Estate Financial Group is able to offer its clients unparalleled access to financial capital, objective advice, and unique structuring capabilities. For more information about Brascan Real Estate Financial, please visit our website at www.brascancorp.com

This is a paid 10 week summer internship that is part of a formal program and is located in the heart of downtown New York City. This summer intern position is a unique opportunity to learn about sophisticated commercial real estate finance transactions, joint ventures and debt and equity capital markets. Interns will have the opportunity to network with Brascan and Brookfield Properties executives and fellow interns through informational seminars, training sessions and social activities. Each intern will be assigned a department project to be presented at the summer's conclusion. Interns are assigned a mentor for the summer, who will be responsible for giving you regular performance feedback and coaching.

Candidate Qualifications:
-Senior status student pursuing a bachelor's degree with a minimum 3.0 GPA (cumulative)
-Organizational Studies curriculum
-Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
-Excellent written and verbal communication skills
-Intermediate/Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
-Ability to work in a team environment as well as autonomously
-Self-starter, motivated, proactive


Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Olive & Hedges Law Firm: Paralegal
One of the members of the OS Leadership Committee has made an internship available exclusively for OS students. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Olive & Hedges law firm in Los Angeles is offering an 8 week internship at $12 per hour for full time work during the internship. It will be paralegal type work in this large law firm. If you are interested, submit a cover letter to the OS Program along with a resume. (If you are selected, the law firm is able to provide suggestions about housing.)

Application deadline is March 19. You will be notified of the decision in April.


St. John's Health: Organizational Effectiveness Dept.
Interested in Health Care? St. John’s Health System is comprised of 8 hospitals in southeast Michigan. The intern will be working in the corporate office for the Organizational Effectiveness department in Warren, MI. This department focuses its efforts on organizational change , leadership building, dealing with cultural change, internal surveying to look at turnover rates and job satisfaction, and behaviors of change. Interns will also be assigned a mentor/advisor within the organization. This is a paid internship. Although the duration of the internship is flexible, St. John expects its interns to work throughout the summer months.

Organizational Studies is happy to announce this summer internship opportunity, offered to OS students only. We expect that students receiving an OS internship are returning to UM next fall to share their experiences with other OS students. All opportunities are paid and last a minimum of 8 weeks during the summer months between May-August. All interns will be assigned a mentor/advisor within the organization to help students get the most out of their experience and gain advice about future careers and professions.

To be considered for this internship, please submit a cover letter and your resume according to the instructions below by Monday, March 15, 2004. The cover letter must specify the particular internship of interest and the reasons for seeking this position. Those students whom the organization chooses to advance to the next round will be interviewed by phone and/or in person.

Duties:
This internship is project based and may include job shadowing. The intern will contribute to the design of the internship experience.

Application Deadline: To Todd Sperl (todd.sperl@stjohn.org) by MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2004

See here (PDF) for more details about the internship. For more information about St. John Health Systems, visit www.stjohn.org


JetBlue Airways
Interested in transportation? JetBlue Airways is a new airline based in NYC that offers discount fares to selected cities in the US. Although details of the internship are not available at the moment, students would be working in the corporate offices in Queens in one of the following departments: marketing, human resources, operations. The duties of this internship will be given as soon as they become available.

Organizational Studies is happy to announce this summer internship opportunity, offered to OS students only. We expect that students receiving an OS internship are returning to UM next fall to share their experiences with other OS students. All opportunities are paid and last a minimum of 8 weeks during the summer months between May-August. All interns will be assigned a mentor/advisor within the organization to help students get the most out of their experience and gain advice about future careers and professions.

To be considered for this internship, please submit a cover letter and your resume according to the instructions below by Monday, March 15, 2004. The cover letter must specify the particular internship of interest and the reasons for seeking this position. Those students whom the organization chooses to advance to the next round will be interviewed by phone and/or in person.

How to apply: JetBlue is about to move to online applications (www.jetblue.com). When you apply online, be sure to notify us (smjones@umich.edu), so that we can be sure JetBlue knows you are from Organizational Studies.

NOTE: As of Feb. 13, JetBlue did not have the application for internships on their website, but they hope to have it online in the next few days. Check their site often for the update.

Application Deadline: MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2004

For more information about the firm and to apply online, please visit www.jetblue.com.


UM Human Resources
Building Great Places to Work would benefit greatly from two new intern projects, with each project using 2-4 students as a research group, for a total of up to 8 students. We would expect an average of 3-4 hours/week over most of the term. We would have a preference for interns wanting to work both fall and winter terms. (Note: This is in addition to the survey that is already envisioned by OS student Joanna Eisen, and Joanna might be open to having someone join her on her project as well.)

Students would work in research teams or study groups, and would have some choice of subject. The following are possible projects, and in fact I am sure we can think of more when the Steering Committee next meets on September 10. We are also open to having students propose a topic for our approval.
· Organizational communication in the electronic age: reviewing our existing website, researching the best in organizational communication, and proposing enhancements to the site. Promoting the site among UM faculty and staff.
· Recognition: several university units have unique recognition programs in place. Students could design and conduct a survey of staff in those units to determine how effective these programs are, and could do a lit search to propose additional types of recognition.
· UM Business School and the workplace: Recent books by two Business School faculty members have great relevance to "building a great workplace" - Paula Caprioni's The Practical Coach, and Jane Dutton's brand new Energize Your Workplace. With Caprioni and Dutton both present on campus, a student or a group could mine those books for their implications for University workplaces, and could touch base with the authors at some point in the term.
Each team will be expected to produce a report including useable proposals for improvement of the working climate at the University of Michigan.

Successful candidates will
· Be entusiastic about looking at the University as an organization, an employer, and a workplace, rather than just as a school.
· Be excellent team players.
· Have excellent written communication skills.
· Be reasonably skilled with Microsoft Office.

Unfortunately, we have no funding for stipends this year. If a student happens to have a work/study grant, and would like to use it here, we will budget our share of the award.

Students should submit their resumes to
Sally Johnson
Director, Alternative Dispute Services
The University of Michigan
2072 ASB, 1009 S. Greene St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1432
(sallyj@umich.edu).


Responsibilities:
LSA students in Organizational Studies or Communication Studies will be given the opportunity to interact with an executive officer and work closely with the faculty Chair on determining the resource materials needed for each of the meetings. The student could have the responsibility for providing all the staff support for a committee including, setting agendas, researching issues, and maintaining a record of the meeting proceedings.

Examples of past committee work include development of a written policy document such as the "Teaching Principles and Responsibilities," or gathering input on revisions to policy documents such as the "Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities" and bringing it to the committee and executive officer for review and comment. Current issues under discussion include possible changes to University policy such as the proposed policy on Faculty-Student Relationships and changes to the Sexual Harassment Policy, and other policy issues.

Students in Organizational Studies may have interest in the Senate Assembly key issue committees, some of which are looking at changes to employee benefits programs, faculty compensation, and the recruitment and retention of minority faculty.

Students in Communication Studies may have interest in supporting the Advisory Committee for the Vice President for Communications.

Minimum Requirements:

• Strong organizational skills in addition to excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to maintain the confidentiality of information gathered during the performance of assigned tasks
• Strong computer skills
• Willing to make a commitment to support the advisory committee both fall and winter term
• An interest in policy setting at an educational institution
• Attention to detail

• Experience with creating and posting web documents
• Experience with recording minutes for meetings