{"podcast":{"title":"College & Career Readiness Radio","slug":"college-career-readiness-radio-7075667","podcast_index_feed_id":7075667,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/college-and-career-readiness-radio/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.maialearning.com/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/college-and-career-readiness-radio/20250804_050839_cc2cb728133863268880b155262ae17b.png","author":"T.J. Vari","episode_count":43,"summary":"College & Career Readiness Radio with T.J. Vari A podcast about all things career and college readiness. Brought to you by MaiaLearning.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T02:20:24.060796+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/college-career-readiness-radio-7075667"},"episode":{"title":"Scaling Internships for Every Student with Brandon Busteed","slug":"scaling-internships-for-every-student-with-brandon-busteed","published_at":"2025-11-25T12:30:12+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/college-career-readiness-radio-7075667/scaling-internships-for-every-student-with-brandon-busteed","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/college-career-readiness-radio-7075667","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/college-and-career-readiness-radio/2345271","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/292064/2345271/college-and-career-readiness-radio/2025_11_24_22_20_49_431a22d4-9364-468c-be01-2c3de7cab16f.mp3","summary":"Our guest for this episode of College & Career Readiness Radio is Brandon Busteed. Brandon says that work-integrated learning connects traditional academic study with learning that happens on the job and includes not only internships, but also co-ops, apprenticeships, job shadowing, and long-term classroom projects designed with industry input.​ Brandon points out that internships are a game changer: students who have an internship in college are about twice as likely to secure a good job at graduation and remain engaged in their careers, but under a third of graduates actually have such internships with real classroom applicability.​​ He emphasizes that the biggest problems are scale and equity, noting that while 8.2 million college students want internships, only 3.6 million receive one; access skews toward students with more resources and social connections.​ Brandon argues that the internship supply-demand gap could be closed if every employer devoted 5% of their jobs to interns, and that even paying all interns fairly would be comparable in cost to other large-scale federal investments.​ According to Brandon, the quality of internships matters as much as their availability: longer internships yield better results, but any length is valuable if there’s a meaningful project, feedback, and structured reflection alongside clear learning goals.​ He believes that high-quality, work-integrated learning can and should be embedded into classrooms through real-world, project-based work that exposes students to a variety of industry roles.​ Brandon’s work at Edconic includes “industry immersive” programs, which partner with well-known organizations so students can experience hands-on projects, receive direct feedback, and learn about multiple types of jobs even if tradit…","meta_description":"Our guest for this episode of College & Career Readiness Radio is Brandon Busteed. Brandon says that work-integrated learning connects traditional aca…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1842,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/college-career-readiness-radio-7075667/episodes/scaling-internships-for-every-student-with-brandon-busteed/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/college-career-readiness-radio-7075667/scaling-internships-for-every-student-with-brandon-busteed.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}