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 Jai Elliott.

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