There are several steps a McDonough Scholar must take in order to begin their Leadership Internship (click here for a detailed description of these steps).

First, they must have an Internship Learning Agreement completed and on file with the Director of Civic Engagement. Click here to download the agreement and instructions for its completion Secondly, McDonough Scholars are expected to keep a journal with reflections about leadership during their internship. In addition to the journal, there is a short reflection paper to be completed at the conclusion of your internship that becomes part of your course grade for LEAD 401/403 (your capstone). This journal and reflection policy become part of their portfolio of leadership, which is assessed in their senior year when they take the leadership capstone seminar. Click here to download a copy of the journal requirements. The third and final step in the Leadership Internship process is a supervisor evaluation. The internship supervisor should mail this directly to the Office of Civic Engagement (215 Fifth Street, Marietta, OH 45750). The evaluation can be in a format that the company already utilizes, or a letter to Dean Perruci evaluating your performance. If you have any questions about internship requirements, please contact the Director of Civic Engagement.

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Schwartz Internship Scholarship 

Here are a few examples of internships from the summer of 2005:
The San Francisco Bay Chapter of the Sierra Club (San Francisco, California)
Tyson Brown (Environmental Studies and Political Science double-major, Leadership Studies minor)
"I have started my internship, and I have already attended a press conference with Senator Barbara Boxer and Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey. The SF Bay Chapter of the Sierra Club helped to publicize a press conference in support of a bill sponsored by Boxer-Woolsey that would expand the Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuary. This is one of the "odd jobs" I am participating in. My main area of responsibility is the Marin County Development plan. I am working with Sierra Club members in Marin County to lobby for an environmentally sound development plan. We are working with politicians and business leaders in this area to promote ecologically friendly issues in the plan, which is reworked every 20 years."

WQED Multimedia (Pittsburg, PA)
Megan Schreck (Advertising and Public Relations major, Leadership Studies minor)
"I have had the opportunity to interact with all aspects of the company, including fund raising and development, education and community outreach, and Pittsburgh Magazine. I also have learned that the environment of a non-profit organization is very different from that in the corporate world."

EA Engineering, Science and Technology (Marietta OH)
David Brock (Environmental Science major, Leadership Studies minor)
"My duties include sampling effluent cooling water from the Glen Lyn Power Plant in Virginia and the Kanawha Power Plant in West Virginia. The samples are then brought back to the office in Marietta for plankton analysis. Also fish species are captured from the cooling water brought into the plants and identified for an ecological survey. So far, this experience has been exciting every day."

Pensacola Little Theatre (Pensacola, FL)
Kristy Boyd (Musical Theater major, Leadership Studies minor)
"My internship is focused around the education program that the Little Theatre offers. I have had a wonderful time. The experiences that I am getting both with leadership and theatre are going to be very useful in the future. I am excited to complete the internship and see how much I grow from it."

Kraton Polymers (Belpre, OH)
Josh Moore (Biochemistry major, Leadership Studies minor)
"I am working with various people in the health safety and environment department. I have various jobs that I will be doing all summer from working with the industrial hygienist, to chemical engineers, doing water quality test, in which I collect water samples and then analyze them in a lab using various pieces of chemistry equipment. This internship is giving me a view into the science world."

Stevens Painton Corp. (Cleveland, OH)
Eric Johnson (Psychology major, Leadership Studies minor)
"We are in Philadelphia dismantling an abandoned steel mill and shipping it overseas to China, with possible future projects in Buffalo and Indiana. I work with an array of different personalities, from real quiet guys to the guys who like to keep the crew laughing. We all need to work together in order to accomplish our goal of dismantling the mill. It is interesting to see the leadership styles implemented. There is a hierarchy of authority, but it seems to be very hands off. The top trusts that the bottom will get things done. Although there are titles, everyone is treated as on the same level as everybody else. On a broader scale, it is interesting to see where the steel industry has come and gone in the United States. Something that was the backbone of America and helped make her strong is now being torn down, boxed up, and shipped out to China to help them become strong."