# P&Q cites Stern as bucking historical internship pay trends, quoting Assoc Dean of Career Services Beth Briggs, & credits the School for creating SternWorks, a new initiative to connect MBAs with small businesses to share skills & give back to NYC

1 School News June 3, 2020 ![Poets and Quants logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_036687.gif?itok=YuUEYfSP)>

Excerpt from [Poets & Quants](https://poetsandquants.com/2020/06/03/what-mba-interns-made-last-year-what-they-probably-arent-making-now/) -- "NYU Stern, SternWorks, a joint effort of the Office of Career Development and Office of Student Engagement (the latter of which leads Stern’s experiential learning efforts), gives full-time MBA students a summer experience who don’t otherwise have one lined up — or whose internship was delayed or truncated. The school tells P&Q that the program helps students build skills while giving back to its community — which was hit harder by the pandemic than any other in the U.S. SternWorks is a testament to quick-thinking innovation."

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