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The Agricultural & Natural Resource Policy (ANRP) Internship Plan offers many benefits from paid internships and academic credit to getting connected with the Aggie network! About of all, an ANRP internship will give you a chance to try out a potential career chance-gratuitous!

This is your chance to gain real work experience that many employers are looking for today. Let ANRP be the experience that opens doors to your future! To learn more most all that the ANRP Internship Program has to offer, check out the benefits below.

Location	Paid Internship	Housing Provided	Scholarship	Academic Credit	Policy Experience	Networking Opportunities	Resume Building	Training & Support
Washington, D.C.
Rome, Italia
Austin, Texas

Housing

The ANRP Internship Program is just able to provide housing for its Washington, D.C. interns. These fully-furnished apartments are located in Arlington, Virginia, which is a curt 15-25 minute metro ride from Capitol Hill and downtown D.C. The neighborhood is shut to shopping centers, grocery stores, restaurants, dry cleaning, and public transportation. Everything yous need is right at your fingertips!

Housing accommodations are not provided for interns in the Austin, Texas or Rome, Italy programs. Interns for these ii plan locations are responsible for securing their ain housing for the duration of the internship.

Program Stipend and/or Scholarship

Location	Autumn or Jump	Summer
Washington, D.C.	Housing provided by ANRP and $500 monthly stipend provided by hosting office.	Housing provided by ANRP and $500 monthly stipend provided by hosting office.
Rome, Italy	$2500 program scholarship	$2000 program scholarship
Austin, Texas	$k monthly stipend provided past hosting office during the legislative session	n/a

Academics

Stay on rails for graduation! Prospective ANRP interns are highly encouraged to meet with their academic counselor to discuss how participation in ANRP could touch on the pupil'south degree plan prior to submitting an ANRP application. Please talk to your academic advisor almost receiving grade credit while interning with the ANRP Internship Programme.

All ANRP interns are required to enroll in bookish credit during the internship semester. Specific coursework will depend on the individual student's degree plan requirements. Students should piece of work with their academic departments to determine which course(s) are the most appropriate for the internship. Traditionally these are listed every bit directed studies, special topic, or independent study courses and are ane-6 credit hours.

Undergraduates participating in either the Washington, D.C. or Austin, Texas program later graduation may enroll in a cipher (0) hour course during the internship semester. Students participating in the Rome, Italy plan are required to enroll in at to the lowest degree one (1) credit 60 minutes.

In improver to the ANRP coursework, some students gain additional hours that count towards graduation by enrolling in online coursework during the internship semester. However, because ANRP interns work 40 hours per week, the ANRP Internship Program staff does not recommend enrolling in more six (6) credit hours.

Graduating Seniors

Need a gap semester before starting graduate school or entering the professional loonshit? Participate in either the Washington, D.C. or Austin, Texas programme the semester after you lot graduate!

Graduating seniors may intern with either of the domestic programs later finishing their caste. ANRP staff will have you lot flagged as a "U5 – postbaccalaureate undergraduate" (continuing educatee) with the Registrar's Office, which allows you to participate in the program post-graduation. May graduates may intern with ANRP in either the summer or fall, August graduates are eligible to participate in the fall, and December graduates are eligible for the spring.

Graduate and doctoral students cannot intern with ANRP subsequently they graduate.

Policy Cognition

The economy, education, health care, transportation, housing, the environment, energy, jobs — virtually every aspect of daily life is affected by public policy decisions at all levels of government activity. Who makes important policy decisions, in what mode, and based on what evidence or criteria are issues of utmost importance, especially as public problems abound ever more complex, interconnected, global, and multi-generational. These challenges demand rigorous assay, the capacity to weigh multiple and often as compelling policy choices, and a subtle agreement of the strategies needed to turn policy choices into impact. ANRP interns will gain a macro-level understanding of policy also as participate in the policy procedure during their experience.

Networking Opportunities

As an ANRP intern, you can take advantage of opportunities to meet professionals working in your area of involvement, helping to hone your leadership skills and learn about career development. Interacting daily with co-workers and community members will shine your advice skills, giving y'all knowledge that volition make yous an asset in any other position in your future. As a full-time staff member of your office, you have an outstanding training ground to practice your professional skills and showtime building your career network!

Resumé Building

Internships are now a vital role of a successful college education. Internships are about gaining feel and making contacts in the professional world. They are nigh learning how to adapt in a new surroundings and interacting with professionals. Once accepted to the program, program staff meet with you every bit a cohort and individually to enhance your resume, cover letters, and policy papers. When interviewing for jobs, it is important that your potential employer sees you lot have applied piece of work experience.

Policy affects everything! Therefore, having a policy-related internship on your resumé shows potential employers that you sympathize this critical building block. Interning away from Aggieland shows your power to arrange to new environments, amend your cultural competencies, and contribute to our world as a global citizen.

Training & Back up

Starting a new job, moving to a new metropolis, and learning the ropes can be tough; but the ANRP Internship Program helps yous navigate the road to success!

Domestic Internships

Never been to Austin or D.C.? New to the professional working environment? Don't know much virtually the policy procedure? That's okay! The ANRP Internship Program staff is here to assist you at each step of the way before, during, and afterward your internship.

Before leaving campus…

ANRP staff assists you in preparing for the final interview and then you can be well-versed and gear up to impress any potential internship site.
As an ANRP intern, yous will run across the other Aggie interns in your cohort, get to know the program staff, and receive help in preparing for your internship.
Yous will participate in several training sessions with plan staff, campus administrators, and other knowledgeable speakers to learn nigh what to expect in and out of a professional part environment.
The program staff works with y'all to enhance your cover letter and resume for future apply.

Once in your internship…

You tin participate in events with speakers and become connected with the Aggie Network to learn more virtually how to make the most of your internship semester.
You will attend meetings with the program staff and Resident Banana (D.C. participants only) to check-in throughout the semester and ensure a proficient experience.
There is an outstanding network of resources and contacts for you to make the most of your internship semester. Former ANRP interns, the local A&Thou Clubs, the Texas A&Chiliad Enquiry Foundation, and many others are set up and willing to help Aggie interns!

Following your internship…

Whether you return to campus, accept a job in Austin/D.C. or elsewhere, or go on to professional person school, the ANRP network will continue to be a resource for you.
Interns who return to campus volition take many opportunities to share their feel with other students at Texas A&M University such as at career fairs and other social events.

Rome, Italia Internships

Earlier leaving campus…

Equally a ANRP intern, you will nourish multiple training sessions, come across the other Aggie interns in your cohort, get to know the program staff, and receive assistance in preparing for your internship.
Although ANRP does non provide housing to its Rome interns, yous will be given advice passed down from former interns.
You lot will participate in training sessions with program staff and other guest speakers to larn about what to wait in and out of a professional person office environs abroad.

One time abroad…

ANRP staff will check in with you throughout the semester to assist ensure a practiced experience.
There is an Aggie network away that you lot can use as a resource to make the most of your internship semester. Students may utilise the Find an Aggie feature on The Association of Former Student's website.

Post-obit your internship abroad…

Whether you return to campus, accept a job abroad or elsewhere, or get on to professional schoolhouse, the ANRP network will continue to be a resource for you.
Interns who return to campus will have many opportunities to share their feel with other students. Quondam interns also assist with recruiting efforts.