By Katie Land, news editor
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| Senior Angela Look works in the graduate business school as a marketing intern through the corps. |
Oakland University’s innovative Summer Student Campus Corps program continues to draw rave reviews from participants. The trial program places undergraduate students in temporary, on-campus jobs for the summer months.
More than 60 students are currently benefitting from the internship-style positions.
“The program has been absolutely wonderful, a real blessing in disguise,” said senior Angela Look, who works as a marketing intern in the graduate business school. “I would definitely recommend that other students look into this. It is a definite resume-booster.”
The marketing major plans to graduate in December and enter the workforce with real experience to show. She spends two days a week at the internship while taking classes and holding another part-time job.
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| Junior Ed Reamer works as an HVAC assistant with the Summer Student Campus Corps program. |
“I was definitely given a hands-on experience with advertising, market research and marketing tools. It has been tricky to find the target audience for this program, but we have been able to work creatively and find new ways to advertise,” Look said.
Working collaboratively with other interns, Look’s main project is to create new marketing brochures, including design, layout, content, photos and wording. “There are so many things I love about this job,” she continued.
The corps is supplying limited positions through Aug. 30 at up to 40 hours a week to help provide an affordable education to students in increasingly difficult economic times. Students can earn up to $10 an hour, or a maximum of $7,200, over 18 weeks.
Assignments include a variety of longstanding infrastructure projects, including areas such as
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| Senior Rob Drozdowski writes a blog and researches for a new finance course through the program. |
information technology, grounds and landscaping, recreation and administrative offices. These projects are outside the scope of routine positions
traditionally offered by the hiring department.
Junior and transfer student Ed Reamer has found plenty to be happy about with his situation. He works five days a week as a heating, ventilation and air conditioning assistant.
“This is the best school I have ever been a part of,” Reamer said. “I have worked and studied here for three semesters and have been really happy with my experience. It’s a neat program.”
Reamer already earned an associate’s degree in robotics, so working with machinery and hydraulics was something interesting that came easily to him. He said that having a technical background has really helped out in this position.
“It has been a really valuable experience,” Reamer explained. “Doing this every day all summer long, I have learned a lot of new things. The guys I work with have a lot of knowledge to share and they teach me a lot.”
Finance major Rob Drozdowski has spent his summer writing a blog for the executive MBA program and doing research for a potential new finance program, both experiences that he plans to highlight on his resume. Normally, Drozdowski works a summer job unrelated to his field.
“This experience has been very good for me,” he said. “I’ve been able to meet professors that can give me references. If I wasn’t here, I would probably still be looking for a job and I don’t know if I would have got one yet.”
A review of available funding will determine if the corps will continue on into another year.
For more information about the Summer Student Campus Corps, contact the Financial Aid Office at (248) 370-2550 or
finaid@oakland.edu.
