10/2003 | National Associates Committee,
ArchVoices Release 2003 Internship and Career Survey Report |
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The AIA’s National Associates Committee (NAC) and ArchVoices, a nonprofit think tank on architecture education and internship, released the 2003 Internship and Career Survey Report on October 17. The two groups worked together to conduct, compile, and analyze this survey to “better inform the profession’s understanding of this important period in the lifelong professional development of architects.” They are making the full report available online at www.aia.org/nac and www.archvoices.org. “I am excited to see this final report and have optimism that it will provide some answers, create additional questions, and continue to fuel important discussions and critical thinking about architectural internship and the effect it has on the whole profession,” says AIA Executive Vice President/CEO Norman L. Koonce, FAIA. “As we start to form the agenda for the AIA national Board of Directors in 2004, we are keeping emerging professionals, and their unique issues and concerns.” Developing a benchmark “The survey results will enable us to make more informed decisions about emerging professionals,” says Shannon Kraus, AIA, associate director on the AIA Board of Directors and a recently licensed Dallas architect. “Too often, decisions that determine internship and registration requirements are made without actual data about the experiences of emerging professionals themselves. Not only do this survey and resulting data afford us that opportunity, but if we are able to execute a survey like this on a regular basis, we’ll be able measure trends and changes over time.” The survey says . . .
Narrative comments paint important picture “For many respondents, this survey represented the first time that they were ever asked to evaluate their internship and early career experiences," said Vicky Boddie, Assoc. AIA, a Minneapolis intern and co-chair of the ArchVoices/NAC Survey Task Force. "Their responses were illuminating, but I was equally moved by the passionate comments that included startling misconceptions about the basic fundamentals of IDP [Intern Development Program]. It is clear that it remains one of the most complex periods in the development of emerging professionals. These personal stories and statistics have really given us a window into how the IDP process is, and is not, working for the profession.” Copyright 2003 The American Institute of Architects. All rights reserved. Home Page |
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