Cynthia Leung

1. Green Campus
For-credit Internships
Cynthia Leung
Team Manager
UC Irvine
cynthiagleung@gmail.com

2. UC Irvine – At a Glance
 Founded in 1965, 2nd newest UC Campus
 Student Population: 28,000
 Designated as a Tree Campus USA 2010
 Ranked 6th Greenest School in
The Sierra Club’s Coolest Schools List
 5 LEED Gold Buildings…
more in construction!
 Dance Teams!
...Kaba Modern!
 Green Campus – Fume
Hood Competition &
Sustainable U Program

3. Projects
Snapshot
• Education & Outreach
– “Sustainable U” Education Program
– Green Room Tour
• Hard Metric Savings
– Restroom Auditing
– Fume Hood Competition
• Green Workforce Development
– Green Career Panel
• Academic Infusion
– For-credit Internship

4. Different levels of involvement
Project
Coordinators
(7-15
hours/week)
For-Credit Interns
(REQUIRED 5
hours/week)
Club Members/Volunteers
(Voluntary hours, variable # of
hours)

5. For-Credit Internship Overview
• Worked on various energy and water
efficiency projects
• Application required
• Offered every quarter of the year
• Open to all majors
• Flexible hours
• Earned 2 units of credit
• 5 hours of work/week
• Weekly news article assignment
• Pass/No Pass Grading System

6. Preparation – Professor
Sponsorship
• Asked facilities management initially
• Looked into professors with characteristics:
• Sustainability minded
• Independent Study Courses

7. Preparation – Applications
• Application Form
– Basic information
– Roles
– 2 one-paragraph questions
• “Why did you apply for the internship?”
• “What do you hope to gain?”
• Publicize
– E-mailed to the list-serve
– Posted application on website
– Passed out flyers during Week 1

8. Preparation – Internship Activities
• Organize intern needs based on
Project Implementation Plans
• Create:
– Timeline of which projects required the
help of interns throughout the quarter
– Spreadsheet
1. Outline of the week, theme, activities, and
projects.
2. Intern Availability  Find a weekly
meeting time.
3. Time Log to document hours
– Syllabus outlining requirements and For-Credit Intern Schedule
projects

9. Weekly Intern Class
One-hour long
1.Overview of upcoming projects for the week
– Sign ups, assignments for project tasks
2.Updates on project from interns
– Discussion of any issues, comments, concerns.
3.Intern presentation of news articles
– 2 or 3 interns selected to present at club meeting
4.Discussion & questions

10. Intern Projects & Roles
• General projects based on need during different times in the
quarter
• Coordinator Roles – Volunteer, Event, Club, & Intern
• Intern led-project – (New from last quarter!)
– Worked together to plan & implement a Green Room Publicity
Tour

11. Post-internship
• Return any Green Campus items
• Time logs submitted
• Academic credit survey sent to all interns
• Grades sent to the internship sponsoring
professor by the end of Finals Week

12. Metrics
• Average of 12-13 applications per quarter
• 4-6 interns
• Average of 30-40 hours of work per quarter for each intern
– Internship doesn’t usually begin until Week 3
• Cost = $0
• For interns helping
on Sustainable U:

13. Lessons Learned
• Too little work
– Have projects to work on from day 1
– Spread out work to accommodate test schedules
• No-shows, missing assignments
– Three-strike system
• Not knowing how to talk about the internship
– Set talking points
– Practiced with interns

14. Next Steps
• Intern Roles
– Assess success of roles in internship
• Extending internship – multiple quarters
– Makes it possible to work on long-term projects
– Less training, more implementation

15. Next Steps (cont.)
• More collaborative work with facilities for projects
– More projects to give to interns
– Strengthens relationship and collaboration with
facilities
– Many potential AND actual savings associated with
facilities projects!
– Access to technical training,
expertise, & consulting

16. Many Thanks to:
UC Irvine Project Coordinator Team,
Jeff Steuben,
Ellie Kim,
Professor Dele,
Anne Kreighoff,
and
Past and Present For-Credit Interns

17. Questions?
Cynthia Leung
Team Manager
UC Irvine
cynthiagleung@gmail.com

18. Team Structure and Leadership
Development at CSU Chico
Jacquelyn Mercure
CSU Chico
jackie.mercure@yahoo.com

19. CSU Chico
ISD office SSC 460
AS and the collaborative
Have 4 project coordinators
(Staff)
Faculty Advisor Mark Stemen
Campus Lead Morgan King
Unit internships available

20. Past Structure
1 weekly meeting
Interns 8 +
Volunteers 6+
Everyone Works
together to
accomplish tasks

21. Problems with Past structure
Meetings were really long/ rushed
All organization of unit interns was team
manager’s responsibility
Hard to keep everyone on task
Volunteers/ unit interns commitment was not
developed
Staff’s leadership skills were not developed.

22. SuperLeadership
“The SuperLeader. This person leads others to lead
themselves. The focus is on the followers. Leaders
become “super” — possessing the strength and
wisdom of many people — by helping unleash the
abilities of the followers who surround them. The
SuperLeader multiplies his or her own strength
through the strength of others.”
The New Super Leadership - By Charles C. Manz
and Henry P. Sims, Jr.

23. Three Steps to Super Leadership
Initial Modeling
Guided Participation
Gradual Development of leadership

24. Step 1: Initial Modeling
in order to facilitate super leadership the first
step is that the leader of the organization
needs to set an example for the followers
Your Probably already doing this
How you speak to your team members
How you conduct yourself with stakeholders
How you conduct yourself with campus leads

25. Step 2: Guided Participation
begin self leadership in a more controlled safe
environment and provide the tools necessary
to make sure that the self leadership is a
success
New Structure at Chico
New responsibilities for Project Coordinators
Green Retreat Training for interns

26. Team Structure
Two meetings a Team
week Manager
1) Staff faculty
advisor and
campus Lead
2) Staff and Unit
Staff Staff Staff
interns Member member member
Unit Intern Unit intern Unit intern

27. The Projects
Career Fair
BMU lighting
retrofit
Website
development
and pledge

28. Step 3: Gradual Development of
Self-Leadership
followers slowly
become more
confident and
more adept at
leading
themselves
Changes at Chico!

29. Benefits
provide long term high performance and job
satisfaction (has some short term confusion and
frustration)
encourages initiative, self-responsibility, self-
confidence, self-goal-setting, positive opportunity
thinking and self-problem-solving
Spotlight changed from leader to followers
Very high flexibility
Able to complete work without team manager

30. Team Longevity / Success
All staff are comfortable leading others
All staff are comfortable leading their own
projects with own deadlines
Strengthens communication
Help identified a new team manager

31. Next semester
Trevor Prater Taking over as Team Trevor Prater
manager
• Two new staff members
Jackie Mercure
- Hilary Queen and Brittany Brennecke
New unit inters/ volunteers
- Approximately 6 unit interns Hilary Queen
- Green retreat
Brittany Brennecke

32. Thank You! Questions?
Jackie Mercure
CSU Chico
Jackie.mercure@yahoo.com