Robert,

If you e-mail me your telephone number,  I may be able to help you with
suggestions on how to attract interns to your institute.

Dawn Scher Thomae
Milwaukee Public Museum


Robert Tabak wrote:

> As in many museums, internships are a way to give students experience
> and
> get some help with current projects on a limited budget.  I'm pretty
> clear
> about unpaid internships,which are legally a kind of volunteer
> status.  Does
> anyone have a handle on the legal aspects of payments for
> internships?  Is
> one bound by the minimum wage laws once one starts paying anything
> (beyond
> reimbursing commuting costs or other out of pocket expenses)?  Are
> there
> other issues to think about?  So far, our recent efforts to attract
> unpaid
> interns, listed at many area colleges large and small and through the
> web
> site of our local arts/culture council have had essentially no
> response.
>
> Robert Tabak
> Director of Programs
> Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
> Philadelphia
>
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