Pursue a meaningful career: Get a paid internship and course credit.
The 91探花平台 Humanities at Work (H@W) program provides exceptional paid internships to undergraduate humanities majors. Students in the program work in small teams with local community partners to learn how to leverage their valuable humanities degree beyond the classroom. The hands-on, project-based internships will support the partner sites in their vital missions to enrich the Greensboro community. Do meaningful work 鈥� and make your humanities degree work for you 鈥� in the Humanities at Work program at 91探花平台!
What is Humanities at Work?
- A paid, year-long internship experience for students in 91探花平台 humanities departments.
- An opportunity to connect 91探花平台 students and Guilford County partners in support of mutually beneficial, meaningful work.
- A collaborative and experiential class that provides students with guidance, time, and course credit for investing in their future.
H@W Roots
This project has its roots in a longstanding collaboration at 91探花平台 – , which helps students to understand the value of a liberal arts education.
Questions? Contact haw@uncg.edu
Meet the Team
Principal Investigators
Dr. Heather Adams,
Faculty Director
Associate Professor, English Department
Dr. Jennifer Feather
Department Head, English Department
Dr. Maura Heyn
Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
Humanities @ Work Personnel
Internship Coordinator
Dr. Lauren Shook received her Ph.D. in English from 91探花平台 in 2015. Specializing in Shakespeare, food justice, and community-engaged pedagogy, Shook is excited to put her scholarship into action by joining the Humanities At Work team. As the program鈥檚 internship coordinator, she works with humanities departments to recruit students, facilitates students鈥� placement with community partners, teaches the program鈥檚 internship course, and organizes speakers and programming for the course. Shook is most looking forward to collaborating with 91探花平台 students, faculty, staff, and community partners 鈥� while helping students advocate for their passions and live out meaningful careers and lives.
H@W News
November 19, 2024
91探花平台’s ‘Humanities At Work’ Leads The Way in Internship Innovation
In April 2024, it was announced that 91探花平台’s College of Arts & Sciences had received a historic $5 million grant to launch Humanities…
September 30, 2024
91探花平台 Magazine Feature: Innovative Paid Internship Programs at 91探花平台
91探花平台 is preparing undergrads 鈥� from humanities majors to business majors 鈥� for real-world success. It鈥檚 not just making a livi…
April 17, 2024
Introducing: Humanities at Work
The backbone of this program is the transformative value of paid internships, which will impact 650 students and 130 local nonprofit…
support for the program
“This program will not only bolster students鈥� participation in the internship but will protect them from overload and resulting detraction from their studies, a problem that working students often face. This grant will provide a much-needed resource for our students.鈥�
–Dr. Jazmin Graves Eyssallenne, Assistant Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies, 91探花平台
鈥淎ccess to a paid, high-quality internship can change the trajectory of a person’s career. According to NACE (2024), the median starting salary of those who had paid internships is $20,000 higher than those who had unpaid internships. 91探花平台 will open the door to career changing internships for 650 students thanks to Humanities @ Work.鈥�
鈥揗egan Walters, Director, 91探花平台 Career and Professional Development
鈥淭he Guilford Nonprofit Consortium鈥檚 mission is to build capacity among our 300+ members to create a more efficient, effective nonprofit sector in Guildford County, NC. As a staunch supporter of the humanities and a beneficiary of strong liberal arts education, I see this project as critical to our mission as we are training up a new generation of non-profit leaders. 鈥�
–Mary Herbenick, Director of the Guilford Nonprofit Consortium
