Exactly. It’s not unheard of for “intern” to just be HR’s shorthand for “someone who is working here for a fixed timespan before returning to a university”. I

Exactly. It’s not unheard of for “intern” to just be HR’s shorthand for “someone who is working here for a fixed timespan before returning to a university”. I know of a 40 year old professor who spent a summer as an “intern” at Apple circa 1990.