Organizations can partner with the Madison Center for Community Development (MCCD) to add a graduate assistant to their staff for a fraction of the cost of hiring a full-time employee. Graduate assistants bring expertise and energy to special projects, add capacity to regular operations, and allow organizations the flexibility to make personnel commitments in semester or year-long increments. In turn, graduate students gain valuable applied research and work-based learning opportunities in highly skilled areas.
Community-Based Research and Graduate Assistants can work from 20 hours per week or less during the academic semester. In some cases, students will be placed on-site while others may work remotely from MCCD. JMU faculty can work with Community-Based Research Assistants to help meet program needs and, when appropriate, support dissemination of research or findings. This could include grant-writing, program evaluation, instrumentation, grant reporting, data gathering, data analytics, data utilization, or other types of applied research and analysis needed by an organization. Contact us if your organization has interest in learning more about this program.
Internships
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