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cants to describe what excited them about visiting the galleries.
That was problematic, Eddinger said, because it presumed that
the students had the money to go there in the first place. Some
students also reported that managers were treating them differently
than their peers from four-year institutions, giving them
menial tasks rather than meaningful assignments, not including
them in important meetings, or making comments that made
them feel like they didn't belong.
" It's really trying to change the culture both inside and outside
the college, " Eddinger said, noting that three-quarters of
her students are in the two lowest income quintiles and about
60 percent are parents. " If we truly are going to be a city of diverse
values, it comes down to how we embrace the next workforce. "
Central to this is recognizing that community colleges offer
rigorous postsecondary education and serve a talented pool
of potential employees who have both the academic and cultural
competencies that will help businesses thrive. " A lot of people
say they want diversity and what they want is really white adjacency, "
she added. " Those are different things. "
Another obstacle Learn and Earn administrators discovered
was that even though the internships they were offering
pay well-between $18 and $40 an hour-many students were
reluctant to take them for the simple reason that they already
had a job. Giving up steady income for temporary work experience
often doesn't make short-term financial sense, especially
if you have children. In fact, it's a risk that could potentially
College graduates with
a paid internship on
their résumé have an
average starting salary of
$52,000-44 percent more
than those with an unpaid
internship. Those without an
internship earned $37,000.
lead to a student dropping out if they give up their employment
and can't find another job after the internship is over. Relatedly,
changes in routine that might seem small, like figuring out
how to get to an internship that's far from the bus line that
runs through your neighborhood, can seem insurmountable-
especially when a student is adding another responsibility on
top of course work, a delicate child care balance, or dealing with
housing insecurity.
To navigate these issues, Bunker Hill provides a variety of
" wraparound " services to all its students. These include mental
health counseling, domestic violence resources, a food pantry,
and advisers to help students with everything from creating
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manageable schedules to switching course sections if, for example,
they lose their babysitter and can no longer come to class on
a certain day of the week.
The Learn and Earn program has an additional layer of support
in the form of a weekly class, led by a professor, for students
to talk about the challenges they face in their internships.
In those sessions, problems like not being sure how to respond
to a supervisor's email or how to handle a colleague who is treating
you disrespectfully are worked through. Julia Soriano said
these weekly meetings were crucial to her success. At the beginning
of her paid internship, she felt overwhelmed. Her work
with All In was taking up 20 hours a week on top of studying for
two classes and taking care of two children at home. " By having
a class every week, it was kind of like a reminder of, what are the
goals you want to accomplish? What are the things we learned
this week? " Soriano told me. " By sharing all of that and hearing
the other students, that kept me on track to succeed in this internship.
I stopped thinking I was the only one feeling this way
or not getting things. It was a reminder that there is still time to
develop our skills. "
O
ver time, through sustained outreach, Bunker Hill has
been able to bring more female and minority students
into the program. This past academic year, the percentage
of students of color matched its share in the school as a whole,
and women in the program exceeded their proportion in the student
body overall.
The college doesn't have data, however, on how many Learn
and Earn students get jobs after graduation-either at companies
they interned with or elsewhere-and at what salary. Administrators
started formally tracking that information this academic
year, but it is notoriously hard to compile because there's
no central way to collect it. They have to continuously check with
employers and alumni to get a handle on who is working where,
an imprecise and labor-intensive process.
Despite the limitations with the data, there is evidence that
paid internships lead to better professional outcomes. According
to the 2021 National Association of Colleges and Employers
(NACE) student survey, students who took paid internships received
an average of 1.12 job offers while unpaid interns got an
average of .85 offers. Those with no internship experience got
.64 job offers, on average.
Whether you have internship experience also affects
your starting salary. A study by Georgetown's Center on Education
and the Workforce found that college graduates with a
paid internship on their résumé had on average a starting salary
of $52,000-44 percent more than those who took an unpaid
internship. Those who had no internship had a $37,000
starting salary on average. In fact, previous NACE research
showed a negative correlation between unpaid internships
and starting salaries.
Bunker Hill isn't the only two-year institution working to
bring experiential learning to its students in a way that makes
sense for their lives. The Alamo Colleges District-a group
of five community colleges in the greater San Antonio, Texas,
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