August 31, 2018
East Stroudsburg University student Maureen Nseyep Patty attends The Harrisburg Internship Semester (THIS)
Contact: Kevin Hensil, khensil@passhe.edu
Harrisburg – Maureen Nseyep Patty of Easton is working for the state Department of Health as part of a 15-week internship sponsored by Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education.
Patty is a senior public health major and health services and administration minor
at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. She is one of nine 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.
Patty and the other students participating in the program also will attend several
academic seminars during their fall 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.