$100,000 in Scholarship Funding Given to Five Universities

WASHINGTON, D.C. – September 28, 2012 – In partnership with the New York Life Foundation, The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars announce the 2012 recipients of the Higher Education Civic Engagement Award.  Five schools from across the nation will be honored at a luncheon on Oct. 1, 2012 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.  Award recipients were chosen among hundreds of nominees and winning schools will receive scholarship funding for experiential education.

This fall TWC launched their new Domestic Violence Fall 2012 Civic Engagement Project in partnership with the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), a highly-respected social change organization dedicated to creating an environment where violence against women no longer exists. As part of the advocacy component, students worked with NNEDV to support reauthorizing the Violence against Women Act (VAWA).

As part of the seminar course component of the TWC-Elon Legal Externship Program, fall students are participating in a legal practicum.

Legal externs receive the opportunity to merge legal skills cultivated this semester in their externship with the knowledge accumulated from law school courses by assisting in a pro-bono case on behalf of a DC area non-profit. At the completion of the project, the externs will be writing a legal journal article and submitting it for publication in a legal journal.

Over the course of a month, over 70 different media outlets covered, wrote stories and turned the attention of their online readers to TWC's Campaign 2012 Academic Seminar.

The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars (TWC) and the U.S.-Japan Research Institute (USJI) formalized a ground-breaking partnership on September 11th that will connect Japan’s top eight universities to TWC's programs.

For the second time this semester, TWC hosted a Lunch Series event at the CBS Corporation in Washington, D.C. The July 20th event featured John Orlando, senior vice president of the CBS Corporation's Washington, D.C. office. He is responsible for the oversight, formulation and implementation of CBS's public policy and government relations' objectives. Mr. Orlando is also a 1976 alumnus of TWC, one of the first of over 50,000 alumni all over the world. He remarked that:  "My internship at TWC was one of the most life-changing experiences I had.

TWC interns from Arizona met with Rep. Ben Quayle in the congressman’s office in the Longworth House Office Building in Washington, D.C. The students that attend Arizona State University and Wake Forest University, spoke with the congressman about policy issues concerning:

Now more than ever, students have a hard time honing in on where they want to work and what they want to do for the rest of their lives. And now more than ever, a new generation of Americans is having an extremely difficult time. This problem is prevalent among students whose interests fall within the social sciences, especially those who pursue a degree without a defined specialization.

The benefits of experiential opportunities