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Employer/Site Supervisor Responsibilites

The site supervisor is a professional person who assumes responsibility, usually on a voluntary basis, to work with the student intern.

The site supervisor is obligated to:

  • Provide a professional work experience for the intern;
  • Provide the intern with a job description and establish goals for the internship experience, in concert with the intern and faculty supervisor;
  • Develop learning objectives, with the student intern and faculty supervisor, to be carried out at the internship site that fulfill the goals of the internship; 
  • Meet with the intern on a regular basis to provide feedback on the quality of work;
  • Keep the intern informed, in writing, of any safety hazards and/or confidentiality and legal requirements;
  • Keep the faculty supervisor informed of the intern’s progress;
  • Immediately convey any concerns about the intern's performance to the faculty supervisor and the Coordinator of Career Services and Internships at Lynchburg College;
  • Complete the required evaluations of the intern by the stated deadlines.
  • Note:  it is the College's policy that family members (parents or other relatives) are prohibited from serving as the intern's site supervisor.