Word: internships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House of Representatives voted on Monday to discontinue its summer internship program for college students...
...promising way of taking the guesswork out of presidential promotions is the internship program sponsored by the American Council on Education. Seeking out aspiring administrators on practically every U.S. campus, the A.C.E. every year sends up to 45 of them to another school as assistants to a top college administrator. There, the interns spend a year shadow-boxing with the problems of their hosts, taking a detailed look at how another campus operates-and incidentally enjoying more study time than they are likely to have again in their career...
...standard academic path for an aspiring M.D. is four years of premedical schooling in an undergraduate college, then four years in medical school proper. By the time he graduates, he is already 25, with one year of internship still before him and an adequate income even more remote. Considering this heavy investment in both time and tuition costs, bright young high school students are increasingly attracted to the mushrooming physical sciences. There they can expect to get a higher degree in six or seven years and make good money in industry...
...University launched a new program in 1959, under which about 24 students selected annually spend two years in college, then five years of medical courses. Later, Northwestern University, Boston University and Albany Medical College began similar accelerated programs that vary somewhat in content but run just six years until internship. And, in 1963, Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College began a program that runs only five years...
...ranking system, according to which the student's access to important "Honorary" extra-curricular activities, and possibly his future career plans, were determined. Criticism extended to the Honoraries themselves and suggested that many positions be opened up to free competition and that the School provide more activities and practical internship experiences...