January 29, 2018
Indiana University student Garrett Haffner attends The Harrisburg Internship Semester (THIS)
Contact: Kevin Hensil, khensil@passhe.edu
Harrisburg – Garrett Haffner of Beaver is working for the state Department of Labor and Industry as part of a 15-week internship sponsored by Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education.
Haffner is a junior political science and economics major at Indiana University of
Pennsylvania. He is one of eight students participating in The Harrisburg Internship
Semester (THIS) program, which provides students the opportunity to work in all areas
of state government while earning a full semester’s worth of credits. THIS invites
students from each of the State System universities to participate.
Haffner is the son of Jeff and Linda Haffner and a 2015 graduate of Beaver High School.
He and the other students participating in the program also will attend several academic
seminars during their spring semester internship. Each of the students will complete
an individualized research project as part of the program’s requirements.
More than 600 students from the State System universities have participated in THIS
since the program began in 1989, each gaining valuable insight into the workings of
state government at the policy-making level. Interns have worked with dozens of state
agencies, as well as in the offices of the governor, the speaker of the House of Representatives
and the attorney general.
State System students interested in participating in THIS in a future semester may
obtain information on the program by contacting their individual campus coordinator
or their university’s cooperative or internship office, or by calling the Dixon University
Center at (717) 720-4089. More information on the program also is available at: www.passhe.edu/this.