The Chevy Chase Leadership Internship Program (CCLIP) will blend academic rigor (classroom learning), concrete experience (internship), and active experimentation (international immersion and global showcase) over two academic semesters. Interested students may elect to continue their involvement as experienced leadership educators during the year following the program.
Career Development Workshops (Spring Freshmen Year)
Students will undergo an extensive selection process that involves a written application and interview process. Selected students will be required to sign an agreement that they understand the extensive nature of the program. Once admitted, selected students will participate in three two-hour career development workshops focused on finding and securing a meaningful internship. Workshops will include:
- Developing a resume and cover letter
- Locating and securing an internship
- Interviewing skills
Upon successful completion of the career skill workshops, students will be invited to a networking event designed specifically for CCLIP participants and selected internship hiring organizations.
Academic Classes (Fall & Spring Sophomore Year)
3 credits = 28 class contact hours plus a minimum of 75 Internship hours in the Fall
3 credits = 28 class contact hours plus a seven day international excursion in the Spring
- Fall – Students will enroll in a three credit global leadership course, housed in the Education, Counseling, and Personnel Services (EDCP) department in the University of Maryland’s College of Education. The class will meet 14 times for 2 hours every week of the semester.
Course goals include:
o Gain a better understanding of the nature and complexity of leadership, including its inter-disciplinary and global nature.
o Understand the importance of self-knowledge and its relationship to group process.
o Understand gender and cultural influences on groups, organizations, and communities.
o Develop competency in global leadership development.
o Recognize their responsibility to participate in their own communities and in the broader society.
o Help clarify career goals and aspirations as a result of the internship experience.
o Understand one’s own leadership potential.
o Discuss ethics in leadership and the work environment.
- Spring – Students will enroll in a 3 credit global leadership course. The class will meet 14 times for 2 hours until Spring Break. Students will spend spring break on a seven-day international immersion experience. Students will meet three additional times upon return to the states to prepare the global leadership showcase.
Course goals include:
o Clarify students own understanding of Western views of leadership through experiencing a different culture
o Develop an understanding of how leadership and social change are perceived and presented in another global context
o Examine the connection of ethics and leadership within and across cultures
o Work to develop their own model of global leadership
o Study the use of power and nature of oppression as viewed from diverse perspectives
o Gain knowledge of complex systems and systemic change
o Analyze the interconnections of historical, political, social, economic, and cultural contexts.
o Examine their own cultural heritage in relation to others
o Learn to discuss cultural differences and engage across difference
o Practice enacting leadership in diverse contexts and settings
o Collaborate by engaging in group projects and discussions
o Critically reflect on one’s own capacity for global leadership
o Design a reflection project to present one’s learning to others at Maryland.
o Pre and post trip assessment of learning
Internship (Fall Sophomore Year)
5-20 hours per week =minimum of 75 semester hours
The Career Center will assist students in locating potential internship placements in line with their career goals. Students will be encouraged to explore on campus internship opportunities in the following divisions; Academic Affairs, Administrative Affairs, Student Affairs, and University Relations. All sites must be approved before the internship experience may begin. The internship experience will allow students to examine leadership as a process not just as a position, explore potential career fields, develop career-related skills and abilities, establish a work history, observe professional people and behavior, learn job search skills and build a network of contacts. The internship experience will serve as a method to integrate classroom theory with real-life experiences. Students will develop learning objectives to serve as the bases for a learning contract that will be signed by the student intern, instructor and site supervisor. Students will organize a poster presentation about their experience, featuring parts of their professional portfolio and any work products from internship sites.
Global Leadership Showcase (Spring Sophomore Year)
Upon returning from their international immersion experience, students will engage in a team project that includes the design and execution of a Global Learning Showcase where students are encouraged to share individual and collective learning from their experience in the Chevy Chase Leadership Internship Program. The Global Learning Showcase might include a slide show, creative expressions, and written reflections. Topics covered might include: an orientation to the history and cultural traditions of their international experience; connections made among internship, class, and immersion experiences; reflections about meetings to observe political processes, with community-based organizations and NGOs, press and labor groups, student groups; presentations of learning from their involvement in a community service-learning project; artistic displays, and reflections. People invited to the showcase will include, among others, CCLIP instructors and staff, Internship supervisors and guests, peer interested in the CCLIP program.
