Telecommunications students who live off campus can pay for internship credit online for considerably less because of a waiver on certain fees, Joseph Misiewicz, chairman for the Department of Telecommunications, said.
Alan Richardson, internship coordinator for Ball State University's Department of Telecommunications, said the department had recently adopted the program and it would begin this summer. Richardson said the reason for adopting this program was to help students financially.
Richardson said he oversaw the implementation of the program. He said it was based on off-campus designation, which provided internship credit to students living off campus.
He said this made internships for off-campus students more affordable. While tuition fees remain the same, other standard fees such as library and athletics fees are waived, he said.
Richardson said the program applied to all internships in the TCOM department.
Richardson said the program was experimental. After the summer, telecommunications faculty will evaluate how well the program worked and listen to feedback from students, he said.
"If it works, we'll probably reinstitute it," he said.
A drawback to the program is that it is designed exclusively for off-campus students, Richardson said.
He said if a student wanted to intern in Muncie it could be a problem. The program would actually make it more expensive to intern in Muncie, Richardson said.
"The point is, there are so few of those students," he said.
Richardson said other departments had similar programs.
He said he first heard about it from Thomas Baird, associate professor in the Department of Marketing and Management, which has already been using a similar program.
"We are truly hopeful that it will work, because we'd like to save students some money," Richardson said.
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