August 31, 2018
California University student Gabrielle Salerni attends The Harrisburg Internship Semester (THIS)
Contact: Kevin Hensil, khensil@passhe.edu
Harrisburg – Gabrielle Salerni of Lincoln University, Pa. (Chester County) is working in the office of Governor Tom Wolf as part of a 15-week internship sponsored by Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education.
Salerni is a senior international studies major and political science minor at California
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.
Salerni is the daughter of Robert and Dianne Salerni and a 2015 graduate of Avon Grove
High School. She 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.