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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
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
Different levels of involvementProject
Coordinators (7-15
hours/week)
For-Credit Interns (REQUIRED 5 hours/week)
Club Members/Volunteers (Voluntary hours, variable # of
hours)
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
Preparation – Professor Sponsorship
• Asked facilities management initially
• Looked into professors with characteristics:
• Sustainability minded
• Independent Study Courses
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
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 projects
For-Credit Intern Schedule
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
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
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
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:
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
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
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
Many Thanks to:UC Irvine Project Coordinator Team,
Jeff Steuben, Ellie Kim,
Professor Dele,Anne Kreighoff,
and Past and Present For-Credit Interns
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
Past Structure1 weekly meeting
Interns 8 +
Volunteers 6+
Everyone Works together to accomplish tasks
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.
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.
Three Steps to Super Leadership
Initial Modeling
Guided Participation
Gradual Development of leadership
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
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
Team StructureTeam
Manager
Staff Member
Unit Intern
Staff member
Unit intern
Staff member
Unit intern
Two meetings a
week
1) Staff faculty
advisor and
campus Lead
2) Staff and Unit
interns
The Projects
Career Fair
BMU lighting retrofit
Website development and pledge
Step 3: Gradual Development of Self-Leadership
followers slowly become more confident and more adept at leading themselves
Changes at Chico!
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
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
Next semester
Trevor Prater Taking over as Team manager
• Two new staff members
- Hilary Queen and Brittany Brennecke
New unit inters/ volunteers
- Approximately 6 unit interns
- Green retreat
Trevor Prater
Jackie Mercure
Hilary Queen
Brittany Brennecke
