The College of Charleston sends letters to employers saying that students’ internships will be “formally supervised, recognized, and evaluated by the college.” The letters don’t mention that the internship “certificate” won’t bear credit or appear on a student’s transcript.

Are employers satisfied? “It really depends,” says Lindsey R. Gillen, internship coordinator in the college’s career center. Larger corporations usually are not. They insist on credit and will not give the students internships; this year MTV didn’t. But for local media companies at least, the certificate seems to suffice.

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