Special Grant Provides Albertus Magnus College Students With Paid Internships
Assists First Generation Students with Careers; Supports Local Non-profits
Albertus Magnus College is pleased to announce that the Office of Career and Professional Development will receive a $15,000 grant for its internship program from the East-West Mission Fund for the Support of Ministries through the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
As many as eight first generation students will be the beneficiaries of the program. The application process opens in late October, with training classes in the spring so that students can be prepared for employment in the summer of 2021. Local New Haven non-profits that work with women and children could be potential partners.
“Paid internships help students advance their careers,” said Associate Director of Career and Professional Development for Corporate Partnerships Sr. Rosemary Reynolds, SNDdeN. “With the creation of this internship opportunity, we can establish paid experiences for first generation students to strengthen their career readiness skills and future opportunities. Through collaborating with non-profit agencies in New Haven, this program would also enable our students to expand direct service to the population that these agencies serve on a daily basis.”
Three in 10 undergraduates at Albertus are first-generation college students. More than 85-percent of undergraduate students receive financial aid in the form of scholarships, loans, grants, or work-study assistance. Albertus is committed to helping people from diverse economic and academic backgrounds to excel in the workplace and be lifelong learners. This paid internship opportunity amplifies the College’s mission outlined in its Strategic Plan 2025: Lighting the Way to a Second Century, highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary and experiential approach to education that prepares students for lifelong civic engagement and success.
“Many of our students need to work part-time to help pay for their tuition expenses and an unpaid internship stands in the way of participating in an academic internship for credit. This opportunity would help break the cycle of financial instability that permeates first-generation students from completing an internship and thus opening the door to future employment,” said Sr. Rosemary.
About Albertus Magnus College
Founded in 1925, Albertus is a coeducational Catholic College in the Dominican tradition. Albertus' values- and liberal arts-based education is recognized by external rankings such as US News & World Report, Money, and The New York Times, and has been named a Top 10 Military Friendly School. For ten consecutive years, at least 95% of Albertus graduates have attained employment or gone on to graduate studies within six months of completing their degrees. The College has an enrollment of approximately 1,300 students across its traditional undergraduate, accelerated adult undergraduate, and graduate program levels. Proud to enroll a student body where nearly half of its undergraduate students receive Federal Pell Grants and are first-generation college goers, Albertus is known for its innovative curricular offerings, recently launching new Bachelor's degree programs in Nursing, including BSN and Connecticut's first LPN-to-BSN; General Health Sciences; Interdisciplinary Studies; and Public Health.
Among its graduate offerings is the State of Connecticut's only Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling program, and it is just one of three schools to offer a Master of Science in Human Services. In 2025-26, Albertus is celebrating its historic 100th Anniversary and completing implementation of the Albertus 2025: Lighting the Way to a Second Century strategic plan, with a bold vision to "be a destination liberal arts-based college, distinguished in its interdisciplinary and experiential approach to education, rooted in Dominican values, that prepares students for lifelong civic engagement and success." To learn more, please visit albertus.edu.