Kutztown

Beth Ann Alboucq of New Tripoli worked in the office of Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Mike Stack as part of a 15-week internship sponsored by Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education.

Alboucq is a senior public administration major and paralegal studies minor at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.

She is one of eight students participating in The Harrisburg Internship Semester program, which provides students the opportunity to work in all areas of state government while earning a full semester’s worth of credits.

THIS invites students from each of the state system universities to participate.

Alboucq, the daughter of Larry and Janet Semmel, is a graduate of Northwestern Lehigh High School.

She and the other students participating in the program also will attend several academic seminars during their spring semester internship.

Each of the students will complete an individualized research project as part of the program’s requirements.

More than 600 students from the State System universities have participated in THIS since the program began in 1989, each gaining valuable insight into the workings of state government at the policy-making level.

Interns have worked with dozens of state agencies, as well as in the offices of the governor, the speaker of the House of Representatives and the attorney general.