Patricia G. Wilson, I agree completely. This is an area where Career Services and the Education department must work together to ensure that the sites that students are placed on are good sites and if a site is not appropriate, a student is to be placed elsewhere. It is a best practice for Career Services to stay in contact with the students while they are on externship. You want to maintain your relationship with them, ask how the experience is going, do they expect to be offered a position, and if so you can counsel them on the benefits of being hired by their externship site. If they are not going to be hired, better to know that as soon as possible, so you can begin to look for other opportunities for them. We don't want to lose touch with the student once they are finished externship and perhaps become discouraged about the job search process. Sheri Leach