Published on Jan. 10, 2025

This past Tuesday, Director of the Civic Leaders Internship Program Dr. Chad Follis facilitated the Spring ’25 CLIP onboarding session. Within this session, Dr. Follis set and confirmed the professional expectations of each intern in their time interning and representing MUS at the state capitol in Jefferson City. Originally, this onboarding was supposed to take place at the capitol itself; however, Dr. Follis pivoted the session to Zoom to keep interns off dangerous, icy roads following this weekend’s snow storm.

The onboarding session began with a welcome from House Intern Coordinators, Rep. Bennie Cook and Rep. Emily Weber and their LAs.

Dr. Follis invited a handful of guest speakers to answer any questions incoming interns might have. These included past CLIP interns, Former Maryland State Delegate, Kelly Schulz, Representative John Voss, and Kristen Hall, Senior Human Resource Analyst at the House of Representatives.

Guest Speakers advised students on a large array of topics from professional dress, to work ethic, to the importance of commuting in comfortable shoes and packing heels in your bag so one doesn’t already have blisters upon entering the capitol.

Dr. Graham McCaulley, Director of the Office of Community Engaged Learning, also joined the session to discuss Handbook expectations. The Office of Community Engaged Learning is proud to have the spring class of 2025 CLIP Interns represent us and MU in the state capitol.