AIA Central States Internship Guidelines for Firms Program
2011 AIA CSR Emerging Professionals Task Force

Is your firm intern friendly? The AIA CSR Emerging Professionals Task Force launched a new Intern Friendly Firm campaign in 2009 to recognize member firms that support and encourage architectural interns to complete IDP and pass the ARE. The primary intentions of this program are to create a resource for emerging professionals and students and to encourage firms to be more active in the internship process.

Why should your firm promote comprehensive training of our architectural interns? The comprehensive training your architectural interns receive is crucial to their professional development. If they are well trained and have a broad range of experience, they will be better prepared to pass the ARE and become competent licensed Architects. The IDP established by NCARB provides a structured environment for training and development of the core competencies needed by every Architect in practice today. By emphasizing IDP and providing in-house support for your architectural interns, you are creating a resource to attract, train, and retain top quality employees. Being an Intern Friendly Firm will not only enhance your practice, but your firm will benefit from the increased competence, versatility, and productivity of employees fully exposed to the complexities of professional practice today.

Now, do you think your firm is Intern Friendly? This campaign will give AIA CSR member firms “Intern Friendly Firm” designation within our region. To be considered, the Applicant Firm must complete and turn in this form for review. There is no charge to be considered an “Intern Friendly Firm”, only your firm’s dedication to this effort. Upon application approval, your firm will be notified via email and receive designation on the AIA CSR Emerging Professionals website. “Intern Friendly Firm” status is valid for one year and then a re-application is required.

Once approved as an intern friendly firm you have the option of being a ‘Featured Intern Friendly Firm’ for the cost of $100. Benefits of being a ‘Featured Intern Friendly Firm’:
Featured listing on the CSR website (www.aiacsrep.org) including 5 photos of your choice representing your firm.
Featured listing on the CSR jump drive & 5 pages (8.5x11 PDF) of promotional material of your choice.
o Note, the CSR EP website averages over 13,000 hits per year by the regions young professionals, and between 350-500 jump drives
are distributed annually to prospective graduates from the regions accredited universities.

Please direct all questions to Kari Uhlenkamp .

Send completed applications via email or mail to Kari Uhlenkamp
AIA CSR
ATTN: Kari Uhlenkamp
221 E. College St., Suite 303
Iowa City, IA 52245