The Monarch Humanities Internship Academy
Where Passion Meets Profession
Old Dominion University’s most recent strategic plan, Forward Focused: Where Innovation Meets Possibilities, includes the ambitious goal of having every graduating student complete an internship or other type of work-based learning by 2027. The Monarch Humanities Internship Academy, as part of the Monarch Internship and Co-Op Office and created with grant funds from the Mellon Foundation, will provide the human and financial resources necessary for a robust humanities internship experience.
a year after they graduate in the US.
feel they receive guidance and support on education-to-career pathways in Virginia.
majoring in humanities completed internships at ODU between 2014-2022.
Our Vision Statement
The Monarch Humanities Internship Academy (MHIA) offers humanities students the opportunity to connect their skills, talents, and knowledge as humanists to meaningful work-based learning experiences (WBLE).
Humanities students face more barriers than students in other majors in their efforts to seek and complete internships and other work-based learning experiences. Supported by Mellon Foundation funding, the Monarch Internship Academy for the Humanities (MIAH) provides pathways, resources, and stipends to overcome these barriers and expand work-based learning opportunities for humanities students.
Internships help students bridge classroom learning with practical work activities, network with industry professionals, gain professional development skills, and enter meaningful careers after graduation. The Mellon Foundation stipends provided by MHIA also contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives by offsetting financial barriers and ensuring that all students have equal access to valuable internship experiences.
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About The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities. Since 1969, the Foundation has been guided by its core belief that the humanities and arts are essential to human understanding. The Foundation believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom that can be found there. Through our grants, we seek to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive.
Learn more at mellon.org.