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Smith Career Center's internship program expands
The Campaign for a Bradley Renaissance inspired Bill and Marjorie Springer ’81 to make a gift to allow the Smith Career Center to establish the Marjorie and Bill Springer Center for Excellence in Internships.
“We wanted to give something that will continue for years to come,” said Marjorie, who was a career advisor in the Center for Career Development from 1982 to 1992. Bill is a member of the Bradley Council and a Caterpillar vice president; he has been instrumental in supporting Bradley interns in a variety of departments.
With the creation of the Springer Center, Bradley has rededicated its commitment to providing students with enhanced opportunities for career-related work experience. The Center will focus on five areas: expanding opportunities for students to gain career-related experience; generating more student participation in the cooperative education and internship program; increasing awareness of international internship opportunities; enhancing activities that assist students in conducting their job searches and preparing them for on-the-job success; and providing continuous evaluation and improvement of the cooperative education and internship program policies, procedures, and data collected.
“Eighty percent of our students who gained valuable intern experience found full-time employment after graduation, compared to 65 percent for those without career-related experience,” says Jane Linnenburger, MA ’79, executive director of the Smith Career Center, who has been with Bradley for 31 years.
“Intern programs are becoming more and more important as employers view them as the pipeline to future full-time hires,” agrees Sharon St. Germain, director of experiential education and 25-year employee of the Smith Career Center. “The ultimate goal of the Springers’ gift is to bring greater recognition to the internship program.”
Bradley’s first co-op program began more than seven decades ago in the College of Engineering and Technology and continues today.