(Frankfort, KY) - Ten students from six AIKCU member institutions will spend their spring getting an up close look at the inner workings of the Kentucky legislative process. Participants in the 2010 AIKCU Frankfort Semester Legislative Internship Program will work full-time for members of the Kentucky General Assembly. In addition to their full-time jobs working for legislators the students take two upper division seminar courses while in Frankfort.

The students selected to participate in the 2010 AIKCU Frankfort Semester Legislative Internship Program are:

• Laura Perry, an Asbury College senior majoring in communications
• Nathan Cox, a Campbellsville University junior majoring in political science
• Phillip Mitchell, a Campbellsville University junior majoring in political science
• Leann Straley, a Campbellsville University sophomore majoring in political science
• Chelsea Clark, a Georgetown College junior majoring in political science
• Jared Radford, a Lindsey Wilson College senior majoring in history
• Morgan Reck, a Lindsey Wilson College senior majoring in history
• Tanalisa Hatton, a St. Catharine College junior majoring in liberal arts
• Nicole Paulley, a St. Catharine College senior majoring in criminal justice
• Jessica Beard, a Transylvania University junior majoring in political science

This is the 11th year for the AIKCU Frankfort Semester Internship Program. In even years, students work directly for members of the General Assembly. In odd years, interns serve in a variety of state government agencies. The AIKCU intern program is directed by Richard Wilson, a former Courier-Journal reporter and bureau chief and member of the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.