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Presentations

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Tools

• Bonner Campus Self-Assessment Tool: This instrument—a Self-Assessment Tool for Bonner Programs and Campus-wide Institutionalization—has been designed to bring together the most important indicators of a high- quality, comprehensive program. It has been designed to provide the campus staff who build and manage the Bonner Program and other civic engagement initiatives with a set of key guidelines for which to strive. Many of the items in the rubric have been informed by other nationally recognized rubrics for civic engagement, such as those developed by Barbara Holland, Andrew Furco, Campus Compact, AAC&U, and Campus-Community Partnerships for Health. Moreover, this instrument incorporates components that are specifically tied to the frameworks and required activities of the Bonner Program. The tool consists of more than 40 indicators in a rubric form. Below is an example:

Handbooks

• On Your Mark, Go! Get Set.pdf  by Wayne Meisel, and Julia Scatliff COOL (1988)

 Guide to ignite community a community service initiative using student leadership while addressing community needs. 

• Building-It-Up-booklet.pdf  

A workbook that was designed to accompany a one-day workshop on strengthening campus-based community service programs. The workbook provides opportunities to examine the Coalition of Project Model, Recruitment, Gaining Support, and Developing Action Plans. 

Literature

• Deepening Community Engagement in Higher Education (Palgrave, 2013) —  These chapters are available in , edited by Ariane Hoy and Mathew Johnson.  Bonner Programs were provided a copy of this book, or contact the Foundation to see if you can obtain one. Also available on Amazon and other sellers. For more information and additional ideas, see the following articles:
• Marshall Welch and John Saltmarsh (2013): Best Practices and Infrastructures for Campus Centers of Community Engagement - discusses the top ten characteristics of effective and comprehensive campus centers, as drawn from research involving institutions that have earned the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification
• Rick Ellis and Kristine Hart (2013): “If you build it, they will come”: Building a Structure for Institutional Change - discusses how a student developmental model and student leadership can help foster the creation of a campus-wide infrastructure for engagement
•  Abby Kiesa and Ariane Hoy (2013): Leveraging New Technologies for Engagement - discusses practices and findings for using social media and technology as a tool to broaden and deepen campus-wide community engagement (especially by students), which drew on the experiences of campuses in the Bonner network experimenting with support from a Corporation for National Service Grant to the Bonner Foundation
•  Ariane Hoy and Mathew Johnson (2013): Strategic Planning for Centers: Fostering Pervasive, Deep, Integrated, Developmental Community Engagement - discusses a few examples about how strategic planning by a center for civic/community engagement can foster alignment with the institutional mission and strategic plan, as well as support and resources. See more on Strategic Planning here on the wiki.

• Engaging Higher Education: Purpose, Platforms, and Programs for Community Engagement:  For directors of campus centers that have received the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement, this book offers research and models to further advance their work. For directors starting out, or preparing for application for the Carnegie Classification, it provides guidance on setting up and structuring centers as well as practical insights into the process of application and the criteria they will need to meet.

• Looking In, Reaching Out: A Reflective Guide for Community Service-Learning Professionals, edited by Barbara Jacoby and Pamela Mutascio. Eleven chapters, offered by experienced professionals in the field, cover a range of topics like establishing and sustaining an office, understanding faculty culture, and more. Available for purchase from www.compact.org.

• This new report, Community Engagement Terms and Meanings: A Deeper Dive into Definitions, created through the Coastal Academic Alliance seeks to define and clarify the wide-ranging set and use of terms related to community engagement with the hope of reducing confusion and improving understanding not just for specific terms, but also for recognizing the value of community-based learning more broadly across departmental and institutional uses.