COLUMBIA, Ky. – Lindsey Wilson College students heard Wednesday, Feb. 12, about one of the more exciting college internship programs in Washington, D.C. Several dozen students learned about the Capitol Hill Internship Program from the program’s dean and executive director, Robert Walter.
Lindsey Wilson is one of eight U.S. colleges and universities who are members of the distinguished internship program, in which students live near Capitol Hill while interning in government or non-government offices and take part in seminars that enrich their internship experience. CHIP is open to students from all majors and career plans.
In addition to their internship and classes, CHIP students take special guided field trips to Washington’s major sites, monuments and museums.
Two Lindsey Wilson seniors – Jackson Logan, a political science and social science major of Louisville, Kentucky, and Maia Sapp, a political science and media studies major from Crestwood, Kentucky – are CHIP interns this spring. Last fall, Lindsey Wilson senior Anatoliy Voloshyn, a business administration major from Cherkasy, Ukraine, was a CHIP intern.
CHIP is coordinated at Lindsey Wilson by Matthew Powers, who is a political science professor and program coordinator.
PHOTO: LWC CHIP – Capitol Hill Internship Program Dean & Executive Director Robert Walter, right, is presented a Lindsey Wilson sweatshirt by Lindsey Wilson political science professors and program coordinator Matthew Powers, left, and Lindsey Wilson senior and CHIP alumnus Anatoliy Voloshyn, center, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, in the college’s Katie Murrell Library Thomas D. Clark Reading Room.
(Duane Bonifer – Lindsey Wilson College)