| Summer 2010, No. 49 |
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ContentsPlans for New Allied Healthcare Education Center in Mount Airy Announced Charnock Elected Chair of the Board of Trustees Brown Appointed Dean of Business, Mathmatics, and Sciences Documentary Filmmakers Visit Carroll Community College College Receives National Recognition for Community Service Internships Give Students Real-World View of the Criminal Justice System
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| Internships Give Students Real-world View of the Criminal Justice System |
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| Christine Rhodes was enrolled this spring in two criminal justice classes at Carroll Community College. Already a graduate of the college, Rhodes enrolled in these classes because she wanted to take additional credits in Criminal Justice and Ethics, and in Criminal Evidence and Procedure.
Her coursework immersed her in the Criminal Justice field. Yet, she was interested in taking a closer look at careers in the field. So she completed an internship with the Maryland State Police in the Crime Scene Unit.
"I interned with the techs and observed their everyday tasks," said Rhodes. "The internship showed me first-hand how to do my future job, because this is exactly the career I want. Carroll's internship program prepared me and gave me the credits that I needed to be qualified for a position."
The college's renewed emphasis on internships has encouraged more faculty to help students design such experiences in the workplace.
"Internships provide students with real-world experience and the real world is much different than TV police dramas," said Wayne Livesay, discipline coordinator of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies.
"Internships are an opportunity for students to spend time with an agency in which they have an interest. I always try to place them with an agency where they intend to apply for a job. There is also an opportunity to build their resume. I continually have students tell me that their class work complimented their internship. However, it was through the internship that students learn how to be a good employee, how to be responsible for their work, and how organizations function."
Joyce Schaum, director of the Victim Witness Assistance Unit at the Office of the State's Attorney for Carroll County, supervised a Carroll Community College intern this past semester. "Internships are important to an organization. Internships help with the backlog of filing, keeping up-to-date with correspondence, and numerous other tasks that need to be accomplished."
"Student interns have access to everyone in our office," said Schaum, "including attorneys. Students can get what they want out of the experience. This gives interns an opportunity to see part of the criminal justice system from the inside, to help them determine if the choice of criminal justice as a career is the right one for them."
On April 22, forty-four Criminal Justice students spent the day at the U.S. Secret Service Training Academy in Beltsville, MD. They heard presentations on the history and mission of the U.S. Secret Service and toured the training facility, which consists of approximately 200 acres. The students were also included in training scenarios with U.S. Secret Service agents who are responsible for protecting the President of the United States. Two of Carroll's Criminal Justice students are current applicants with the U.S. Secret Service. |
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