UW Business ALVA

Alliances for Learning and Vision for Underrepresented Americans (ALVA) is a paid summer internship program for entering UW freshmen from African American, Hispanic and Native American communities. The ALVA is an all expenses paid program.

ALVA is a partnership between the Foster School of Business and the UW College of Engineering. UW Business ALVA ’s corporate partner is The Boeing Company.

• Each year we have approximately 60 ALVA Interns participants from the Business, Engineering and GenOM programs.
• Participants stay on campus for 10-weeks in the summer before entering UW as freshmen.
• The typical 8-hour paid workday is comprised of 6 hours working with business professionals and 2 hours in a mathematical problem-solving workshop with fellow ALVA participants.
• Transportation is provided to and from your work location.
• Mandatory ALVA weekends activities include: volunteering, social field trips and team building.

High school seniors who qualify for ALVA and are interested in majoring in business, can get answers to their questions by contacting Pamela Lacson .

The ALVA brochure and application, including deadline date, can be downloaded from the box at the right.