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Programs Providing for Employment or Conversion to Permanent Employment.

Presidential Management Internship Program (PMI) - A 2-year program sponsored by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).  It is designed to attract outstanding candidates who are ready to enter the workforce, upon receiving their graduate degrees.  Students participate in a rigorous, competitive nomination process.  The PMI program places strong emphasis on career development in Federal administration and management.

Student Career Experience Program (SCEP) - Provides student with the opportunity to earn an income and gain experience while they are in college.  Student may be non-competitively converted to permanent employment upon graduation provided certain criteria are met.

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Temporary Internship/Partnership Programs

Diversity Partnership Programs - The Department of the Interior recruits college students for semester long and summer internships at bureaus in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and at field sites across the country under its Diversity Intern Program.  This program provides an opportunity for ethnically diverse college students to experience the wide variety of careers in the Federal sector.

Interns will attend orientation meetings in the Washington, D.C., metro area before traveling to host sites.  The sponsoring organizations participating in the program will provide assistance to interns in locating housing near host sites.  Travel from the intern’s home to orientation, to the hosting site, and return home at the end of the term will be paid by the sponsoring organization.

Compensation, eligibility requirements, and instructions for applying for an internship will be furnished by one of the sponsoring organizations below:

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU)
Attention:  Elizabeth Cavert Morrison
One Dupont Circle, Suite 110
Washington, D.C. 20036
(202) 467-0893
(202) 496-9177 (Fax)
Website:  http://www.hacu.net
E-mail:  emorrison@hacu.net

Minority Access, Inc. (MAI)
Attention:  Melvyn H. Goldsborough
5214 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 200
Hyattsville, Maryland 20781
(303) 779-7100
(301) 779-9812 (Fax)
Website:  http://www.minorityaccess.org
E-mail:  mgoldsborough@minorityaccess.org

Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU)
Attention:  Barbara Cornelius
155 Indian Avenue
Lawrence, Kansas 60604
(785) 749-8409
(785) 832-6610 (Fax)
E-mail:  bwelton@ross2.cc.haskell.edu
E-mail:  bcornelius@ross2.cc.haskell.edu

Student Conservation Association (SCA)
Attention:  Karen Blaney
1800 N. Kent Street
Arlington, Virginia 22209
(703) 524-2441
(703) 524-2451 (Fax)
Website:  http://www.sca-inc.org
E-mail:  Karen@sca-inc.org

The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars
Attention:  Rob Henderson
2000 M. Street, N.W., Suite 750
Washington, D.C. 20036-3307
(202) 336-7566
(202) 336-7609 (Fax)
Website:  http://www.twc.edu
E-mail:  robh@twc.exuc

The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO)
Attention:  Stacy Mills
8701 Georgia Avenue, Suite 200
Silver Springs, MD 20910
Website:  http://www.nafeo.org
E-mail:  Smills@nafeo.org

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Temporary Student Programs

Student Temporary Employment Program (STEP) - This program provides students with the opportunity to earn an income and gain experience during their school years.  While serving under this program, students must remain enrolled in school.

Federal Recruitment Program for Students with Disabilities - Co-chaired by the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, and the Department of Defense.  This government-wide program seeks to place students with disabilities in Federal work sites throughout the nation.  Although the primary focus is to hire students for summer positions, permanent opportunities may be available.

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