PW Internships, Partners, & Organizations

PW Internships | PW Partners | PW Organizations

Program Partners

Our community and industry partners are many and are critical to the success of the program. Professional Writing students and faculty teach and learn through community engagement and through activities with government and industry partners.

Community Outreach and Learning

The Writing Program at Michigan State has a long history of community service learning. Service learning and community-based research are common ways that we teach and learn. We encourage individuals and organizations to contact us in order to understand how we can best help transform local communities. For instance:

Professional Writing students conducted usability studies and information architecture analyses that led to the redevelopment of the MSU Libraries Electronic Resources web site.

Professional Writing students created an interactive, multimedia CD and web site now published on the Cherokee Nation web site, which receives thousands of hits per day.

Industry Engagement

Professional writers are communication specialists skilled in writing in diverse media to help organizations meet the needs of their audiences. Our students are grants and proposal writers, content developers, designers, and usability analysts for intranet and internet products, editing and publications specialists, and active citizens who work within and communicate across diverse communities and cultures.

Organizations that recruit professional writing students for internships benefit from their expertise and energy. Interested organizations should contact Dànielle Nicole DeVoss (devossda@msu.edu) about internship possibilities.

The Community and Industry Advisory Board

Our Board is one way to ensure that we remain engaged with our community and industry partners. Our Board helps us understand and solve complex problems, and we benefit from our conversations. Board members include:

Kelley Bishop
Director of Career Services
Michigan State University

David Gruber
Executive Director
Dispute Resolution Association of Michigan

David Maters
Vice President of North American Operations
Novadigm

Tim Mather
Senior Principal
PMA Consultants LLC

John Melcher
Specialist, Center for Urban Affairs
Associate State Director, Community and Economic
Development Program (CEDP)
Michigan State University

Debra Pozega Osburn
Partner
Lezotte, Miller Public Relations, Inc.

Sam Singh
President & CEO
Michigan Nonprofit Association

Amy Smitter
Director
Michigan Campus Compact

Our Campus Community

Our immediate on-campus community includes:

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