U-M Social Work Grad Students Crusade Against Unpaid Internship Mandate
Deadline Detroit • March 29, 2022
“Graduate students should be paid for professional internships that are required, insist over 300 future social workers at the University of Michigan.
Two months after the master's degree students petitioned their dean, about 80 of them walked out of classes and rallied on the campus Diag, The Michigan Daily reported.
Anjelica Abraham, a MSW student and one of the speakers at the walkout, told the crowd that balancing a paid job with her unpaid field work causes a lot of stress. Abraham said she is currently working to complete her field work at Kids-TALK Children’s Advocacy Center in Detroit.
‘I'm tired of having to juggle two part-time jobs on top of class work, on top of field [work] and with an 85-mile round trip multiple times a week,’ Abraham said. ‘I’m tired of working 12 hours a day, six days a week.’”
