These are the basics you will need to navigate the program.

Hiring

The background check, I-9, and tax forms are handled through the program at intern orientation. Supervisors must arrange site- and department-specific training, safety and research compliance training, health screenings, building access, or other requirements for interns.

Pay and Hours

LHSI hires the interns and covers $13/hour for up to 10 hours/week (16 weeks per semester from late August to early May). You will work out a schedule with your intern. Please keep in mind that your intern may need breaks or different hours around midterms and finals and should actively communicate those changes to you. Interns may work up to 10 hours per week during school breaks but it is not required.

If you need help beyond 10 hours/week, hire the student under your department to cover the hours. Interns are IU employees and may not volunteer their time.

Weekly Meetings

Someone at your site should meet at least weekly with your intern for progress updates and to review work. This should be scheduled as a standing meeting and only cancelled if there is no new work to discuss. Constructive feedback during these meetings will help interns stay on track and grow in their skills and ability to contribute to your team.

Assessment and Feedback

Feedback at the site should be ongoing. There is one mandatory site visit for interns and supervisors with the LHSI director in the fall and interns will do a spring check-in with program staff. Interns will fill out self-assessments of their skills in fall and spring; supervisors will simultaneously fill out assessments of the intern. A copy of your own responses will be sent to your email for your records to then compare and discuss with the intern. These assessments help interns reflect on common transferable skills such as communication, teamwork, independence, and confronting challenges and failures.

We expect you to use these assessments to have conversations around intern learning and how they can improve and grow. These can help you provide feedback with specific actions interns can take to improve from one category to the next, or address where an intern’s self-assessment of a skill is very different from what you have observed.

Course credit

Interns may register for course credit through their academic department or the Honors College. Each course will have different requirements and an agreement will be signed between the intern and supervisor with the supervisor assigning the grade. LHSI does not have administrative control over these courses but does allow interns to use the LHSI experience for credit with your permission.

Showcase

We hold a showcase in April for interns to share what they have learned and contributed. The Internship Showcase consists of over 100 interns across three campus internship and professional work experience programs. This event is in person and interns present from their laptops. The presentation type and content are decided after a discussion between you and the intern. It must be electronic and easy to share in a series of brief conversations as visitors walk around the room. Past examples include slides, digital posters, literature reviews and manuscripts, videos, infographics and images to illustrate data points or important facts about the work, and documents created as part of the work (recruiting flyers, social media posts, blogs, podcasts, etc.).

View past examples on the ePortfolio Showcase. The presentations are typically on the Internship page of the ePortfolio.