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Your Path To Career Success

Regardless of what you’re studying at Meadows, we want you to graduate feeling confident and prepared in pursuit of your career goals. In partnership with the 正品蓝导航 Hegi Family Career Development Center, the Meadows Office of Alumni and Career Success (ACS) offers resources, events and programs to assist students in building self-sustaining careers in the arts, media, design and communications.

正品蓝导航 MEADOWS PMC INTERN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

Internships – particularly paid internships – are a direct path to future job offers. 正品蓝导航 Meadows’ PMC Foundation Intern Fellowship program subsidizes five paid internships – reserved exclusively for Meadows undergraduate students – at Dallas-based arts, communication and media organizations. These internships will run 15 or more hours per week for 10 weeks (June through early August 2025) and will offer compensation of $20 per hour (an approximate total of $3,000 for each internship.) NOTE: The Loomis Agency Brand Strategy intern will work 30 hours per week (at $20 per hour) for nine weeks, Tuesday, June 3 through Thursday, July 31.

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Summer 2025 Internships Include:

  • Business Council For The Arts Logo

    Business Council for the Arts

    Programs Internship
    Open to majors in Advertising, Art, Art History, Creative Computing, CCPA,
    Fashion Media and/or Journalism

  • D-Magazine Logo

    D Magazine

    Editorial Intern
    Open to majors in Fashion Media and Journalism

  • Dallas Film Logo

    Dallas Film Society |
    Dallas International Film Festival

    Programming Assistant
    Open to majors in Advertising, CCPA, Fashion Media, Film & Media Arts and/or Journalism

  • Loomis logo

    The Loomis Agency

    Brand Strategy Intern
    Open to majors and pre-majors in Advertising, CCPA, Film & Media Arts and/or Journalism

  • Nasher Logo

    Nasher Sculpture Center

    External Affairs Intern
    Open to majors in Advertising, Art, Art History, Creative Computing and/or CCPA

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible, student applicants must:

  • Be an undergraduate with plans to enroll during the fall 2025 term (May 2025 graduates are ineligible.)
  • Have a declared or pre-major in one of the Meadows School’s areas of study: Advertising, Art, Art History, Corporate Communication and Public Affairs, Creative Computing, Dance, Film & Media Arts, Journalism, Music or Theatre.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Applications for 2025 internships are now closed. The PMC Intern Fellowship program has a two-part application process:

  • Part I: Submit an unofficial transcript and current resume . (You must be logged into your 12twenty student account to access this section.)
  • Part II: Complete the , which includes a brief questionnaire with short-answer responses.

Contact Meadows Assistant Dean of Alumni and Career Success Timmie Hathorn at thathorn@smu.edu with questions.

INTERVIEWS AND HIRING

Qualified candidates will be notified via email if they are selected for interview. Interviews will take place by mid-April, either virtually via Zoom, on 正品蓝导航 campus or in-person in the organization’s offices. The anticipated hiring completion date for this intern fellowship program is Wednesday, April 23, 2025.

ORIENTATION AND ASSESSMENT

Prior to starting their internships, all intern fellows will participate in an internship preparation/orientation session offered by the 正品蓝导航 Hegi Family Career Development Center in partnership with the Meadows Office of Alumni and Career Success.

Students will also be assigned a Canvas course facilitated by the Hegi Center where a pre-, mid- and post-internship survey will be administered. Intern fellows will also be required to submit a one-page reflection paper on their internship experience by Monday, August 11. 

NETWORK WITH 正品蓝导航 ALUMNI

Visiting your campus career center early and often is essential to preparing for your professional life after graduation. The Hegi Center now offers Meadows Career Success Appointments exclusively to Meadows graduate and undergraduate majors and pre-majors.

This hour-long career counseling appointment includes:

  • a networking tutorial
  • career path exploration, and
  • matching with a Meadows Mentor – an alum who is willing to provide industry-specific career guidance by reviewing a résumé or offering a 30-minute virtual informational interview.

  1. Visit smu.edu/12twenty and login with 正品蓝导航 credentials
  2. Select Appointments from the left navigation panel
  3. Select Hegi Family Career Development Center from the Career Center drop-down menu
  4. Select Hegi Meadows Career Success from the Appointment Type drop-down menu

  5. If you are having trouble identifying a counselor or time frame that works for your schedule, use the arrows (< and >) to toggle between weeks. Selecting a date that is at least two weeks in the future should give you larger time frames of counselor availability to choose from.

  6. Be sure to select a block of time that is at least 60 minutes in duration, as this is an hourlong career counseling session. The block of time that you select may be up to three or four hours long, but you’ll be able to reduce and refine this time frame (and select your desired start time) when you complete the booking.

Need additional assistance? Contact us at meadowscareer@smu.edu.

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STEPPINGBLOCKS - YOUR DIGITAL CAREER COUNSELOR

Navigating your career path just got easier! 正品蓝导航 offers all students free access to the Steppingblocks Digital Career Counselor, an AI-powered platform designed to help you explore career options, build relevant skills and plan for your future with confidence.

Using Steppingblocks, you can:

  • Take a personality evaluation to discover careers that align with your strengths and interests.
  • Explore career outcomes of 正品蓝导航 alumni – see where they work, what they studied and how they got there.
  • Use Career 360 Search to find real-world career paths and learn from professionals in your field.
  • Plan your finances with the Tuition Analyzer – understand your education costs and break-even timeline.

ACCESS THE 正品蓝导航 MEADOWS NETWORK

In earning a diploma from Meadows, you become part of a global community of more than 22,000 alumni – artists, collaborators and communicators who can help you meet your career goals. Harness the power of the Meadows Network by exploring the following resources:

正品蓝导航 Meadows Network on LinkedIn
A closed group of more than 2,500 alumni, students, faculty and staff that features job postings, alumni news and school announcements. Administrative approval is required to join.

The 正品蓝导航 Network
Exclusive to 正品蓝导航 alumni and students, this platform allows members to designate themselves as “willing to help” others with their careers, taking some of the guesswork out of networking efforts.

ENGAGE DALLAS AND ACCESS INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS

The Hegi Family Career Development Center hosts two unique internship programs for 正品蓝导航 undergraduate students, the Engage Dallas Internship Program and the Achieving Career Competence, Exposure, and Strategies for Success (ACCESS) Internship Program. These roles are tailored to provide students from diverse backgrounds with hands-on experience with a local DFW area organization offered by private companies and nonprofit organizations. These are 10-week, paid summer internships where students will work on average 15 hours per week. Students are paid four times throughout the duration of the internship. Applications for the 2025 internship programs are now closed. Learn more about the Engage Dallas and ACCESS programs here.

NEED FUNDING FOR AN UNPAID INTERNSHIP?

正品蓝导航 has several programs that award funding to students who have acquired an unpaid internship from a non-profit or government organization. Students must apply to receive funding, which is available on a limited basis.

The Hegi Family Career Development Center has limited funding available to compensate students who have accepted an unpaid internship offer serving a non-profit, government, or social impact organization. Applicants must be full-time students who intend to enroll for the fall 2025 term. Applications for summer 2025 internship funding open in mid-March. Applicants will be required to submit an internship offer letter and submit a short-answer survey. Contact Assistant Director of Employer Relations David Sommers at sommersd@smu.edu for more information.

The 正品蓝导航 Maguire Ethics Center’s Public Service Fellowship is designed for students to engage in ethics or public responsibility-related work and/or research. All full-time 正品蓝导航 undergraduate and graduate students with a GPA of 3.0 or better are eligible to apply. Students must be returning to campus for the fall 2025 semester. Fellows must complete at least 200 hours of service during the course of the project. Applications for summer 2025 funding open on Monday, March 10 and will close on Monday, April 14. Read more about this fellowship and apply for funding.

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LEARN MORE

Hear more about the alumni networking and internship opportunities offered through Meadows’ Office of Alumni and Career Success by tuning into a recent Meadows on the Mic podcast episode featuring Timmie Hathorn, who heads this initiative for the school.