Michael Stephens, who took part in the first year of IWU’s accounting internship program, recently spoke about his experiences. Since the program started in 2006, more than 175 students have participated.

“That internship opportunity was hugely important because I could apply the theories we had learned in the classroom to the business world,” said Stephens, who is now Manager, Assurance Services, for CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA) in Oak Brook, Ill. “As a junior in college, I was actually going into chief financial officers’ and controllers’ offices and asking them questions.”

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