University of California Center in Sacramento UCCS

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University of California Center Sacramento
Scholar Intern Program in Environmental Policy
Analysis, Summer 2006
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Environmental Policy Analysis Topics for the
2006 Course

• California Boot Camp Learning the Green
  Institutional Ropes in the Golden State
• Green (LEED) Building Standards Implementation
  California Leadership, Again
• Climate Change Impacts on California
  Implications for Energy and Transportation
• Climate Change and Special Places Whither
  (Wither?) Parks, Forests, and Refuges
• Follow the Water, See the Floods? Infrastructure
  Bonds as Environmental Investments
• The Roberts Court and the Future of California
  Wetlands
• Marine Protected Areas? The Science and Policy
  of Species and Habitats

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Summer 2006 Scholar Intern Program

• Three tracks are available to students applying
  for the Summer 2006 Scholar Intern program.
• Public Policy Analysis
• Environmental Policy Analysis
• Public-Affairs Journalism
• Program details for all tracks
• Special 10-week Summer Session (June 19 August
  25)
• Units for full-time status are available.
• Students register for Summer Session classes,
  although not necessarily at their home campus.
• Participation in an internship (with a minimum
  time commitment of 24 hours/week) is mandatory.
  Assistance in finding an internship is provided
  by the UC Center Sacramento.
• Students eligible for summer financial aid, or
  with funds remaining from last year, should talk
  to their campus contact early and coordinate with
  their financial aid office.

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Environmental Policy Analysis

• WHY STUDY ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IN SACRAMENTO?
• California has been an energy and environmental
  policy leader for thirty-five years and is
  recognized across the nation and around the world
  for its innovative approaches to problem solving.
• California still tackles problems of resource
  management and environmental sustainability in
  ways that other states, localities, and foreign
  countries want to understand and emulate.
• The UCCS Environmental Policy Analysis Program
  gives UC students the chance
• to learn about this remarkable record
• to work side-by-side with those who make policy
• to prepare themselves to become the leaders of
  tomorrow

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Environmental Policy Analysis Academics

• For undergraduates Environmental Politics and
  Administration (POL 107) a four unit,
  upper-division, regularly scheduled UC Davis
  course available to UCCS scholar interns through
  Summer Session
• Course credit (4 units of quarter credit) can be
  transferred to your own program on your home
  campus after checking with your major advisor.
• Internship units and registration procedures
  vary. Your campus contact has more details.
• For graduate students Academic credit is offered
  through graduate level UC Davis courses for the
  internship and/or for a directed reading and
  research seminar
• Course credit (2 or 4 units of quarter credit)
  can be transferred to your own program on your
  home campus after checking with your major
  advisor.
• FOR ALL STUDENTS The Summer 2006 course will
  cover (a) the nuts and bolts of Californias
  major environmental institutions (see next slide)
  and (b) analysis of problems in the designation
  and management of protected areas for watershed,
  wetland, wilderness, and wildlife values,
  terrestrial and marine.

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Environmental Policy Analysis The Nuts and Bolts

• Most students in the summer environment program
  want and need a refresher course in the nuts and
  bolts of Californias environmental policy
  processes and governance institutions.
• To provide this, we will make an intensive review
  and revision of Judy Orttungs Protecting the
  California Environment A Citizens Guide
  (1980) and student authors will publish their
  revisions of selected chapters on the web.
• This review and revision work will familiarize
  students with the main legislative committees
  dealing with environmental and energy policy in
  California, as well as the principal executive
  branch agencies, interest groups, and local
  actors.
• The author has agreed to our undertaking this
  work as a UCCS project and will likely join us
  for a course session.

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Environmental Policy Analysis Internships

• Available in a variety of legislative, executive,
  legal, and civil society settings where difficult
  environmental and energy policy issues facing
  California and the nation are addressed.
• Past students have interned for
• Principal legislative committees dealing with
  environmental issues
• Legislators and staffers who make environmental
  policy a specialty
• Boards, commissions, and departments of the
  California Resources Agency and CalEPA
• Non-profits and interest groups with a focus on
  the environment
• The UC Center Internship Director will work with
  each Scholar Intern one-on-one to secure an
  appropriate internship placement.

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UC Center SacramentoSeminars and Special Events

• The Center frequently hosts guest speakers from
  the legislature, the executive office, the media
  and UC campuses. Scholar Interns are invited to
  actively participate in these events. The Summer
  2005 speaker list included (among others)
• Geoffrey Lomax, Research Director, Environmental
  Health Investigations Branch, California
  Department of Health Services
• Holly Brown-Williams, Director of Healthy Aging
  and Environmental Programs, Center for Community
  Wellness, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
• Richard Rominger, Farmer, UC Regent, U.S. Deputy
  Secretary of Agriculture, (1993-2001)
• Sarah Null, Ph.D. Candidate, Geography, UC Davis
• John Andrew, Supervising Engineer for Statewide
  Water Planning Project, Department of Water
  Resources
• Tom Philp, Sacramento Bee Reporter
• David Lesher, California Program Director, New
  America Foundation
• Amber Mace, Sea Grant Fellow, Resources Agency
• Gary Griggs, Director, UC Institute of Marine
  Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
• Daniel Weintraub, Columnist for the Editorial
  Pages of the Sacramento Bee
• Ellen Hanak, Research Fellow, Public Policy
  Institute of California
• Jayne Battey, Executive Director of the Pacific
  Forest and Watershed Lands Stewardship Council
• Truman Burns, Esq., Office of Ratepayer
  Advocates, the California Public Utilities
  Commission
• Jock OConnell, Principal Consultant, The
  ClarkStreet Group
• Bryan Jenkins, The UC Biomass Collaboration
• Steve Shaffer, California Department of Food and
  Agriculture

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Eligibility Application Process

• Summer 2006 Application Period is February 1,
  2006 April 14, 2006.
• A GPA of 3.0 or above and good standing on home
  UC campus.
• Junior, senior or graduate/professional student
  standing before entrance into the program.
• An application, transcripts, two letters of
  recommendation, and statement of intent.
  (Graduate/Professional students one letter must
  be from a graduate advisor.)
• Undergraduates Submit all documents to your
  campus contact.
• Graduate/Professional Students Submit all
  documents to the UC Center Sacramento, to the
  attention of Erika Peters.

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Who is my campus contact?

• UC BERKELEY Jennifer Sugiyama [phone] /
  sugi_at_berkeley.edu
• UC DAVIS Marg Lee [phone] /
  molee_at_ucdavis.edu
• UC IRVINE Sharon Parks [phone] /
  sparks_at_uci.edu
• UC LOS ANGELES Kathy O'Byrne [phone] /
  kobyrne_at_college.ucla.edu
• UC MERCED Mary Willis [phone] /
  mwillis_at_ucmerced.edu
• UC RIVERSIDE Trina Elerts trina.elerts_at_ucr.edu
• UC SAN FRANCISCO Erika Peters [phone] /
  erika.peters_at_ucop.edu
• UC SAN DIEGO Annie Abbott [phone] /
  aabbott_at_ucsd.edu
• UC SANTA BARBARA Nan Anderson nanderson_at_ltsc.ucsb.
  edu
• UC SANTA CRUZ Sheila Rodriguez [phone] /
  intern_at_ucsc.edu

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Want to know more?

• Check out our web site at
• http//uccs.universityofcalifornia.edu
• or call [phone]
• For admissions and internship questions
• Erika Peters, Internship Director
• [phone] / erika.peters_at_ucop.edu

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Academic Mission

• IMMERSE Scholar Interns in public service and the
  state political and policy-making process
• ENGAGE Scholars Interns in dialogues and
  discussions with industry leaders, political
  figures, and imaginative thinkers
• CHALLENGE Scholar Interns to produce policy
  analyses and/or news stories on key California
  issues.
• PREPARE Scholar Interns for effective
  professional lives by providing them with a
  competitive set of tools and insights