CAPS Fellows Program

Internships with Purpose and Impact

The CAPS Fellows Program reimagines internships as formative experiences grounded in purpose, reflection, and community. Fellows engage in 300-hour summer placements with mission-driven organizations while building professional skills, exploring vocational calling, and learning alongside peers and mentors. Each fellowship fosters personal growth and social engagement.

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Institute for Leadership and Service

Fellows Program

The CAPS Fellows Program helps students explore their Calling And Purpose in Society by reimagining internships as communal and reflective experiences that deepen discernment. Fellows complete 300-hour summer internships (9–11 weeks) with regional and national organizations engaged in service and leadership. In addition to real-world experience, Fellows receive a living stipend, orientation, debriefing, an alumni mentor, and cohort-based learning. They also engage in reflective Zoom discussions, contribute to the CAPS Fellows Blog, and write a final essay—deepening learning and preparing them for meaningful work in any field.

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Institute for Leadership and Service

CAPS Fellowships

Professionally Relevant

Internship placements are designed to provide enriching experience in organizations relevant to but not strictly determined by a student’s major. In other words, this is NOT a clinical internship or field placement. The program should expand the Fellow’s horizon of possibilities. Fellows work closely with colleagues and supervisors, and are given significant, project-based assignments. They will experience a purposeful work environment and gain skills that will carry forward into the professional world.

Socially Engaged

No matter where students serve, this experience will introduce them to meaningful ways of working in the world. All placement organizations are engaged in leadership and service, and as a CAPS Fellow the student will have multiple opportunities to learn from colleagues and from an alumni mentor about their own pathways to purpose.

Rooted in Reflection

Reflection is key to finding and deepening the student’s sense of calling and purpose. Through individual and group reflective exercises, CAPS Fellows gain insight into themselves, how they might best serve others, and what a purposeful life could look like after Valpo.