DESCRIPTION:
The California Community College Internship Program (CCCIP) offers qualified full time UCI PhD and MFA students aspiring to pursue an academic career in teaching, policy development, or administration the opportunity to learn about faculty life, governance, and teaching at one of the local community colleges. A traditional graduate degree from a research institution generally does not provide the graduate student adequate preparation for a career choice of teaching in a community college; this program addresses this lack of experience.
Selected UCI graduate students, with strong teaching backgrounds, will be partnered with faculty at community colleges affiliated with UCI for a period of two to three quarters. In the fall quarter graduate students will undertake orientation to the community college and the faculty or administrative partner, observing in the classroom, attending college faculty meetings as appropriate, and conducting preliminary planning with the community college partner for winter and/or spring activities. Winter and/or spring, students engage in substantive teaching, extracurricular support, and other aspects of community college responsibility.
Students are required to commit to the program for a minimum of two quarters and a maximum of three in an academic year. They are matched with community college faculty and administrators on the basis of shared disciplines and goals. Together, choosing from a menu of suggested activities, the faculty and graduate students develop a contract, agreeing on a variety of mutually beneficial activities that will strengthen the graduate student’s preparation for a professional career in a community college. Students will register for 2-8 units per quarter, depending on the number of hours involved, and will receive a certificate upon completing a minimum of 40 hours over the course of the academic year. More importantly, students directly experience academic life in a community college environment, an opportunity that is highly beneficial to a student’s career planning.
COMMUNITY COLLEGE PARTNERS PARTICIPATING FOR 2007/08:
GENERAL STUDENT ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
- Advancement to Candidacy
- UCI MFA or doctoral students only
- Minimum of three quarters teaching experience (e.g., as a Teaching Assistant), which may be at UCI or another institution, or other relevant teaching experience
- Good academic standing and making satisfactory progress toward degree
- Good teaching evaluations
- Interest in an academic career in teaching
- Recommendation of faculty teaching supervisor
- Recommendation of faculty advisor
- Enrolled at UCI full-time
- Available to participate in the mandatory fall quarter 2008, with an option of completing the program in one or two more quarters during the 2008-09 academic year.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Flexibility in scheduling
- Personal transportation
STUDENT SELECTION PROCESS:
Students must complete the Office of Graduate Studies' application and sign and submit it along with all required attachments by March 1, 2008 to Carol Sokolov, 120 Aldrich Hall, Zot 3180 (Letters of Recommendation may be submitted directly to Carol Sokolov). The application form is designed with form fields and can be filled in on-line and printed, or printed and completed by hand. Final decisions will be made by the Internship Selection Committee, and students will be notified of the review outcome by e-mail. The ability of the partnering institutions to match UCI students with their faculty partners will also be a consideration in the selection process.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Carol Sokolov
Assistant Dean, Graduate Academic Affairs
Office of Graduate Studies
120 Aldrich Hall
ZOT: 3180
Tel.: (949) 824-7458
Fax: (949) 824-9096
E-Mail: csokolov@uci.edu
