The first part of enabling students to participate in international internships is ensuring that the know the opportunity exists. Following are some ideas from internship advisors on successfual ways of communicating internship opportunities.
Have returned interns on a panel for interested students. Promote the event on listservs, in the campus newspaper, and through professors. Have the newpaper write a follow up piece about the students with your contact information in the article.
Use email distribution lists to advertise new and continuing positions. The Email Updates come every term (approximately a month before the application deadline) and as new sites are developed. These are designed to be forwarded by subject to faculty or students with those specific interests.

Encourage students and faculty to sign up for email updates directly. The sign up bubble
Distribute discipline-specific flyers and hand-outs to departments.
Ask supportive faculty to make a short presentation in class or provide them with a brief power point presentation they can do at the start or end of class.
Send out a letter to faculty who are internship supervisors informing them of IE3 Global Internships and informing them that there is an international internship option available for their students.
Do a survey of academic programs on your campus that require students to do internships to complete a degree and work to encourage those students to consider an international option.
Promote the writing of articles in the campus newspaper. Articles could appear in a variety of formats, including Feature Articles, the calendar section, Letters to the Editor, or personal columns.
Encourage articles in other campus publications, including faculty and staff newsletters, department newsletters, alumni magazines and newsletters, any publications from international programs, admissions brochures.
Use other campus media outlets, such as the campus radio station or student-accessed electronic bulletin boards.
Distribute and post fliers and posters around campus.
Hold general informational meetings or open houses for students interested in international internships.
Make classroom presentations to targeted classes (many majors have "introduction to internship" courses).
Add information to the university or college catalog. Articles explaining the program should be featured in the academic/student services/student activities catalog published by your campus.
Take advantage of campus orientations. Make presentations at freshman and new student orientations, and include copies of the student brochure in the orientation materials new students receive. Be sure that the international internship option is included in your office brochures about international options for involvement.
Piggyback on other campus events, such as study abroad fairs, international student presentations and events, or foreign film series by making presentations or arranging to have a table with materials available for interested students.
Pass out IE3 Global Internship bookmarks.

Please share your ideas with us and with other internship advisors. If there are any materials you need, email us at ie3global@ous.edu.