#paid-internships

#paid-internships

Delaying, dropping out of, or skipping college altogether have long been popular in Silicon Valley. Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Larry Ellison have all done some version of it. As artificial intelligence hype draws young founders to San Francisco, programs at companies like Palantir Technologies are rolling out anti-college initiatives for high school graduates. Meanwhile, startup entrepreneurship programs like Y Combinator skew increasingly younger, as taking a gap year has become less contrarian and more mainstream for aspiring technocrats.

Last year SUNY launched the Institute for Local News, engaging a dozen student reporting programs at colleges across the state-including Stony Brook University, the University at Buffalo and the University at Albany-to produce local news content. Faculty direct and edit content produced by student journalists for local media partners. This summer, the Institute sent its first cohort of journalism interns out into the field, offering 20 undergraduates paid roles in established newsrooms.