City Of Lansing/MSU Teaming Up to Keep MSU Students in the Area

One goal the City of Lansing and Michigan State University (MSU) share is keeping MSU students in the area after they graduate. In order to keep students in the region, the two have created an internship program designed to introduce students to a variety of civic and non-profit job opportunities before they graduate.

The new "Linking Lansing" program matches students with Lansing-based internships. It also hosts job shadow days for students and job search events for Lansing businesses and MSU students.

Lansing Economic Development Corporation President Bob Trezise says the city needs to show MSU, Cooley Law School and Lansing Community College students that the area is a great place to live after college.

“We need to stop convincing them that Lansing is cool,” Trezise says. “That needs to be self-evident.”

Trezise says this program will show students that the Lansing job market is growing along with the city, which will see more than $350 million in new developments in the downtown area over the next few years.

Source: Bob Trezise, Lansing Economic Development Corporation

Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.