RCA PROGRAM IN ETHICS

Student Ethics Internship Program

We are pleased to announce that the Center for Practical and Professional Ethics is piloting a new ethics internship program for 2009-10. The internship program offers support to faculty who would like to have a student assist them with ethics related research, curricular and pedagogical design, and any other professional tasks for which assistance would be appropriate and useful. The purpose is to expose talented students to the professional tasks associated with ethics research and teaching and to give them an opportunity to engage more deeply with ethics.

We have funding for up to 5 internships of $500 per semester. This sum is based on a flat rate of $10/hour, paid as an honorarium at the end of semester in which the student is an intern.

How to go about getting an ethics intern? Follow these 4 easy steps:
1. Have in mind a student who you want to work with and would benefit from the experience
2. Develop an ethics-related project or program with which the student would be tasked for the duration of the internship, the amount of time you would like the intern to work, and approximate start and end dates
3. Contact the CPPE Director, Christina Bellon, at this email to indicate your interest
4. Complete and submit the application form for an internship for your student

Each Faculty member is responsible for ensuring her/his student intern completes the agreed tasks and will be required to verify such at the end of each semester in which the student serves as an intern. Each faculty member is limited to one intern per semester. The size of the honorarium will depend upon the hours worked up to a maximum of $500 (or 50 hours) per semester. Students will be required to submit a report of their project at the end of the semester in which they are an intern.

CPPE Student Interns may not be used to support regular teaching duties, nor serve as a teaching assistant, and may not do tasks such as grading, teaching classes/tutorials, etc. Student interns may serve as ethics or ethics-related tutors to students across course sections, for example as an intern within a department to tutor students taking ethics or ethics-related courses in that department. Ideally, a CPPE ethics intern will be engaged in a faculty member's professional work, broadly understood, to develop her/his research and pedagogical/curricular skills related to ethics research and course design.

These funds are provided by an external grant by the Sacramento Region Community Foundation through the Center’s RCA Program in Ethics. As such, for students with loans or work-study, these funds may have to be deducted from their grants or may otherwise affect their eligibility for grant/work-study funding.

Application form.

Deadline for Fall/09 Internship applications is Monday, October 5th, 2009.
Deadline for Spring/10 Internship applications is Monday, March 1st, 2010.

RCA Lecture Series

Student Ethics Essay Competition