{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Career Everywhere","title":"Internships for Everyone: How ODU Removes Barriers to Work-Based Learning, Part 2 (feat. Barbara Blake)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2613,"description":"If you haven't listened to part one yet, start there first. In that episode, Dr. Barbara Blake walks through the origin story of ODU's Monarch Internship & Co-Op Office—why it was created, how it's structured, and how four distinct pathways are making work-based learning accessible to every student regardless of major, background, or circumstance.\nIn part two, the conversation goes deeper. Host Meredith Metsker and Barbara dig into what the office has accomplished in its first three years, how Barbara secured $8.5 million in funding from more than 20 sources, and what it looks like to turn a $5 million Mellon Foundation gift into 75 brand-new internships that never existed before. Barbara also takes on one of the field's thorniest issues—unpaid internships—and makes a compelling case for why career services leaders need to stop accepting the status quo and start advocating for change.\nShe closes with some of the most practical advice in the two-part series: how to find your people on campus, how to think small when it comes to grants, and why doubling down on what you do best is the right move for any career office that's stretched too thin.\nKey topics covered in this episode:Why myth-busting is mission-critical for first-gen students—and how assumptions about unpaid internships, year-long commitments, and eligibility requirements are keeping students from pursuing opportunities that are actually available to them.How ODU's $5 million Mellon Foundation grant funds the Monarch Humanities Internship Academy, which pays humanities students $20 an hour—including at nonprofits that previously couldn't host interns because they couldn't afford to pay them. Since early 2024, the academy has created over 75 brand-new internships.Why unpaid internships deserve real advocacy, not just workarounds—and what career services leaders can do right now at the institutional level to push for change, from reaching out to faculty and departments to challenging accrediting bodies to...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/TrzA0-LSinxoJEe66KJpatUxUh4t2w3jXW0NZ0qGHUw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM3MjE5LzE2NzE2/NTg2NDAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}