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Writing Good Training and Enrichment Events
Foundation Requirements for T&E Events
Training and Enrichment Events describe events, trainings, or meetings that enrich service work
- written by: a campus administrator or office assistant (senior intern, student worker)
- perspective: written in the 3rd person, like an event announcement or listserv entry
Entry Guidelines
- An event title that includes the main topic (if the event title is not descriptve enough on its own)
- A description of the event’s content, participants, and purpose
- The Bonner Program skills, knowledge areas, or common commitments addressed
Tips & Things to Consider
Events with general titles such as "Bonner Meeting 3". "Team Meeting", "Reflection Time", or "Book Talk with Professor Hackett" are not specific enough to be nationally approved. These types of titles should include the general topic being addressed such as "Bonner Meeting 3: Time Management", "Team Meeting: Homelessness Issue Team", "Reflection Time: Poverty Today", and "Book Talk with Professor Hackett: PolicyOptions Program".
All events must have a description in order to be approved. The description can refer to the topics covered (and should make clear the connection to the Bonner Program in cases of using campus-wide events especially).
Events should cover an identifiable Bonner program skill or knowledge area or make the connection. This is especially true for campus-wide training events: if you're cutting and pasting text from your campus calendar, be sure to modify the text to make the connection to the Bonner Program. Example pages with these content areas are below.
- Skills
- Knowledge Areas
- Common Commitments
Other considerations:
- For course meetings, create a separate distinguishing each one so that the specific topics are shown.
- Avoid titles that include dates (automatically come up in hour log drop down box anyway)
Examples from the Network
Sophomore Class-Based Meeting 2: Servant Leadership
- Join us for the second Sophomore Class Based Meeting! On Friday we will discuss the importance of servant leadership, the definition, and applications in the DeLand community. We will also begin brainstorming for our Sophomore Exchange which will be held during the IMPACT Conference in March. Finally, we will discuss and plan a service trip to be held on November 19th for the Sophomores.
Student Leadership Series: Coaching Peers
- This workshop, led by Rosalie Carpenter, is designed to teach leaders about the fundamentals of coaching your peers, friends, professional relationships, etc. The workshop will consist of a lecture by Mrs. Carpenter, a Q&A session, and finally a timed practice among those present.
Campus Speaker Series: Professor Jones on Diversity
- This is part of the campus-wide speaker series which brings faculty to campus. This session will explore issues of diversity, privilege and access. It connects to the Bonner Common Commitments.
