Student Employee

Pay Range

Pay Range: Target Salary Range: $15 per hour

Benefits

Benefits Eligible: No

Work Schedule

Work Schedule: Flexible Schedule

Travel

Travel: Not required

Position Introduction

The Dodge Family College of Arts & Sciences (DFCAS) seeks two OU undergraduates to serve as AI Interns for the 2026-2027 academic year. The role brings humanities students into the college’s AI strategy work. Interns assist Jeremy Hessman (DFCAS IT Strategist) and work as a research team.

Responsibilities

• Help design, deploy, and analyze the college-wide DFCAS AI survey. Translate the responses into a written report that informs college-level decisions.
• Practice clear communication with faculty, department chairs, administrators, and student groups. Conduct interviews, draft summaries, and translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
• Research and vet AI tools for use across DFCAS disciplines. Write plain-language guides and build a curated prompt library organized by discipline and use case.
• Build and maintain the DFCAS AI resource hub. The hub is a SharePoint site that houses vetted tools, prompt templates, faculty guides, policy documents, and training materials.
• Support working group meetings, faculty workshops, listening sessions, and an AI Day event. Prepare agendas, capture notes, track action items, and coordinate with department liaisons.
• Gain hands-on experience with several software tools common in the non-profit, public, and private sectors, including Microsoft Forms, SharePoint, Power BI, Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Outlook, and Teams.

Skills

• Close reading, source evaluation, ethical reasoning, qualitative research, and good writing.
• Project management, survey design, basic data analysis, stakeholder communication, technical fluency with AI tools and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, and the experience of carrying a project from open question to delivered product inside a working organization.

Internship Details

• Internships span 15 weeks per semester, with the option to continue across both fall and spring.
• Internships pay $15/hr for up to 10 hours/week (150 hours per semester, the equivalent of a 3-credit-hour course load under DFCAS guidelines).
• Internships can be taken simultaneously for credit with appropriate academic scaffolding.
• Students who wish to pursue this option should contact their department chair as early as possible.
• Open to any full-time OU DFCAS student, with hiring preference for majors in the arts, humanities, or interpretive social sciences.
• Includes exposure to national conversations on digital equity and AI in higher education.
• AI Internships are useful preparation for any student considering a career in higher education, the non-profit sector, or any field where AI literacy and clear writing will matter. The work produces deliverables that go to college leadership.

Contact Information

Contact Jeremy Hessman (hessman@ou.edu) with questions about the internship opportunity.

Application

Apply Here: jobs.ou.edu (Student Jobs, on campus).

Job #

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