The iSchool Internship Institute
Professor Dave Dischiave, of the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, has received an Enitiative grant to add a new “entrepreneurial thinking” dimension to the iSchool internship experience. The iSchool Internship Institute, or I3, is a curriculum-based, experiential leaning environment integrated into the graduate program in the School of Information Studies as a credit-bearing course, IST 971. The optional entrepreneurial component of the course will be designed to motivate students to think about and focus on how employees add value to an organization’s existing products, services or processes; or how employees develop brand new products, services or processes. Participating students will be required to observe, participate, and document entrepreneurial thinking and post their observations to the appropriate IST 971 discussion forums. They will also prepare, document, and present “How the I3 prepared me to be an entrepreneurial thinker,” and present their findings to a panel of industry professionals. Prizes will be awarded to the students with the “best” presentations.