Catholic University

On September 12, interested WIP interns were directed to Catholic University to hear a lecture in the late afternoon by Michael Meckler, who discussed and signed copies of his new book: Classical Antiquity and the Politics of America: From George Washington to George W. Bush. This event represented yet another example of WIPs liberal association with universities in the greater Washington, D.C. area. In addition to the fact that WIP’s summer course on “Washington and Work” is taught at Georgetown University and the Washington Internship Program is affiliated with a year-round graduate / faculty seminar and luncheon series at George Washington University’s Elliot School for International Affairs, WIP interns also attended academic classes and lectures at Johns Hopkins University (the Baltimore campus that has a Washington, D.C. extension), American University (in the District of Columbia), the University of Maryland (in College Park), George Mason University in Virginia, Howard University (the premier historically black college in the United States, which is located in D.C.), Catholic University of America, Trinity College, Mount Holyoke, the University of the District of Columbia, Strayer University, Southeastern University, and Gallaudet University – the world’s leading college for the deaf, which provides full scholarships for all Gallaudet students that WIP accepts (often in the spring term of the senior year). In addition to attending special events at these schools, WIP students are welcome to live on their respective campuses at certain times of year, and our interns often take additional courses there on a part-time basis. Every term, applicants from these institutions of higher learning become part of the Washington Internship Program and are given placements where the hours are carefully scheduled by WIP so as not to conflict with students’ regular courses. Likewise, graduates of these universities – like young people who complete other undergraduate and graduate programs across the United States and around the globe – turn to WIP for help in building bridges between academia and the processional world so they can launch their careers within all fields in the most promising fashion.

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