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SUNY Works Opportunities

SUNY Works Opportunities

This is a one-stop platform for employers to engage with all 64 SUNY campuses to share meaningful and relevant internship and other applied learning opportunities.

Applied learning opportunities at SUNY include:

  • SUNY Works – internships, clinical placements, in which more than 20,000 SUNY students are already enrolled; and cooperative education programs (“co-ops”), in which SUNY faculty and area employers have jointly developed curricula that integrate classroom instruction and on-the-job experience. Approximately 1,740 students are currently enrolled in co-ops across SUNY.
  • SUNY Serves – service-learning, community service, civic engagement and volunteerism. More than 30,000 SUNY students are currently engaged in formal service-learning programs for which they earn college credit, while tens of thousands more participate in community service and volunteer locally, nationally and around the globe.
  • SUNY Discovers – study abroad, student research, entrepreneurial ventures and field study. While SUNY research has a proud history of breakthrough discoveries, inventions and startups, our increased focus on applied learning has led to an unprecedented level of collaboration between SUNY students, faculty and industry experts to enable commercialization of the best ideas and innovations born at our campuses

To use this database, create an account and follow the instructions for posting positions. Please note that many of the required fields include help topics or memos to provide you with specific information. For specific training information, view the SUNY Works Employer Information Overview.

Before creating your account, please review some of the materials regarding legal issues with internships as composed by SUNY.

Additionally, please consider the following good tenants of a SUNY internship opportunity, including expected student learning outcomes and the student competencies expected to be gained.

  • Create cooperative education and formal internship opportunities for 15 week periods in fall and spring and 12 weeks in summer
  • Provide appropriate worksite supervision and corporate compensation of at least minimum wage
  • provide orientation, ensure adequate workspace, oversight, assignments, and safe work environment
  • work with appropriate academic partners to develop student learning contracts, reflection materials and assessments when necessary
  • provide students with formal documentation of their work
  • grant an interview for full employment following the placement
  • Ensure company is compliant with all applicable laws, including, but not limited to, the Fair Labor Standards Act and the US Department of Labor’s guidelines: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.pdf

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