Transportation & Compensation

Transportation

  • Student interns are expected to provide their own transportation to/from the internship site.

  • If service involves student interns transporting others in their own vehicles:

  1. The assumed liability and the required insurance coverage must be clearly stated in your internship listing and communicated to the student intern.

  2. The student intern should include a statement in the Internship Confirmation Form acknowledging acceptance of the liability and insurance requirements.

  • Student interns may NOT count travel to and from the internship towards service hours.

  1. Travel between multiple locations in the same shift during service (e.g., delivering meals to clients), may count as indirect service hours.

  2. But these travel hours may comprise a maximum of 15% of the student interns’ total hours for the class (9 hrs for 200-level classes and 15 hrs for 400-level classes).

Compensation

  • USL student interns are expected to perform service hours. Please do not compensate them monetarily.

  • USL student interns should not be expected to pay for the cost of participation unless the cost is clearly communicated through the Service Internship listing prior to the start of service. This includes background checks, fingerprint clearance cards, medical / drug tests, uniforms, etc. Community partners are encouraged to cover the costs of required eligibility material whenever possible.

  • USL Student interns should not be required to purchase program supplies.

  • USL student interns may be reimbursed for travel if the position requires them to use their own vehicle to complete internship tasks. Whether or not mileage will be reimbursed should be clearly stated in internship listing.