In response to Gina T's question about interns - if there's a university near
you, you would contact the department head and ask that this person to send an
email to his/her faculty offering an internship and asking the faculty, in
turn, to notify their students.
Who you contact would depend on what kinds of tasks you'd like done. So, this
might include the department heads for horticulture, public administration or
marketing.
If you are contacted by students and/or faculty, you would then have to have a
meeting -- or maybe this can be done by phone or email -- to outline the
task(s), the number of hours this would entail, how the student would be
evaluated, and other formalities that would ensure the student gets college
credit and/or a stipend, and is accountable and completes the task.
Each university probably has it's own rules and paperwork. I would contact the
university ASAP because the current semester ends by early May - at least it
does here in CT - and students looking for internships will likely be doing so
right now.
Also, I think given today's economic issues, you're less likely to get a
student to work only for college credit - you should be prepared to ask for
maybe 10-15 hours a week and to pay them minimum wage.
The key is to have a clear cut task, timeline and outcome in mind when
contacting universities.
If it's physical labor you're in need of, you can inquire about the
university's community service coordinator and that person will explain how to
put out a message of need to students who have to fulfill their community
service hours. If there are frats and sororities on campus, you could also
contact them.
I've done this (enlisting students for community service) fairly successfully -
have also called on local church youth groups, and Habitat for Humanity. --
Good luck! -- Brenda
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