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College of Saint Benedict - St Johns University Campus Profile

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College of St. Benedict/St. John's University (CSB/SJU)
37 College Ave S

St. Joseph, MN 56374

www.csbsju.edu

 

CAMPUS AT A GLANCE & KEY FACTS


The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University are two nationally-leading liberal arts colleges whose unique partnership provides students with a highly engaged learning experience preparing them for leadership and service in a global society.  The student experience is enhanced by Catholic and Benedictine tradition and an extraordinary sense of place and community.

 

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE


Type of Program: Bonner Leader Program

Year Began: 2008

Bonner Program Website: https://www.csbsju.edu/xpd/students/experience-based-programs/bonner-leader

Application Deadline for 2023: TBD

Where is the Bonner Program located: Office of Experience and Professional Development (XPD)

Number of Bonner Students: 40

Highlighted Bonner Specific Programs:

 

  • Flex it Forward: A program created by a Bonner Leader that allows students to use their leftover campus meal dollars at the end of the semester to donate nonperishable snacks to the children at a local elementary school. Bonners create Kid Packs that give nonperishable snacks to children on the free and reduced lunch plan at this school. 
  • Kennedy Kidstop: Several Bonner Leaders are placed at Kennedy Kidstop for their student employment position. Bonners begin as tutors during their first year, move into the role of rotation leaders their second and third year and fulfill management positions by their fourth year in the program.
  • United Cerebral Palsy Foundation of Central MN: The Bonner Leaders collaborate with the UCP of Central MN to volunteer with their annual all-ability Halloween Party and their stationary bike fundraiser, Stuck in Motion.  
  • Great River Children's Museum: A Bonner Leader volunteer site that aims to provide a place for families to create, explore, learn, and be inspired, while simultaneously strengthening communities across central Minnesota and the local economy.
  • Habitat for Humanity: An organization driven to ensure everyone across the world has decent shelter. Bonner Leaders serve at this site building and improving homes, and some complete their student employment through the organization. 

 

CAMPUS-WIDE ENGAGEMENT AT A GLANCE


  • CSBSJU Course CISP-300: This course will be designed as a conduit to the exploration of the power dynamics related to race, ethnicity, class, language, sex, and gender across time and culture. It aims to enable students to speak knowledgeably about the intersection of race with class, sex, gender, ethnicity both abroad and in their own cultures and communities. In particular, students in this course will examine how inequities in American society shape the legal system and potential solutions. New Americans, including refugees and immigrants, are often financially and culturally disadvantaged when navigating courts. In the classroom, students will learn how a purportedly equal justice system can, in fact, reproduce and exacerbate inequalities. The class with partner with Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid, which provides free legal services to those who otherwise could not afford it. Through this partnership, students will provide direct and supporting services to Legal Aid and its clients. Students will provide invaluable assistance to Legal Aid, which depends on volunteers and donations, while experiencing first-hand the ways inequities permeate our legal system and the opportunities and challenges to transforming that system
  • CSBSJU Course Community and Identity: The course addresses issues of racial justice by focusing on incarceration disparities in the United States. After serving their time, former prisoners often face significant barriers to reintegrating into society. Students in this class will learn about the history of prisoners, how the criminal justice system intersects with racial disparities, and current movement to reform or abolish the current prison system. In this course, we will partner with The Dream Center in St. Cloud, which provides housing, training, and support formerly incarcerated men reintegrate. Through serving The Dream Center, students will experience and reflect on the flaws of the criminal justice system and the viability of different solutions to create a more just criminal justice system. 
  • CSBSJU Course Environmental Politics and Policy: This course is about the politics and policies surrounding environmental issues at all levels of government. Many issues are both local and global. Transportation, electricity, and food are locally experienced but have global as well as local environmental ramifications. Environmental politics and policies draw upon a range of disciplines including economics, history, ecology, and ethics in addition to political science, public policy, and public administration. In covering environmental politics, we focus on the themes of environmentalism from lobbying, legislating and litigating to protests and the politics of corporate sustainability. The policy focus emphasizes content related to major federal laws and the federal agencies that oversee environmental policy. The second half of the course concentrates on specific local, national and international issues such as the management of national forests, food politics, and local land use planning. We study each issue by discussing the players and major debates. Beginning Fall 2022, our class is partnering with the Recreation Department of the City of St. Joseph. The Recreation Department is in the process of strengthening its ties to the city’s growing Somali American population. Students will assist in planning and running a picnic organized to help connect the local Somali American community with the Recreation Department to build relationships and begin gathering input to ensure that the city’s parks and recreation serve everyone. 

 

KEY CONTACTS


President: Brian J. Bruess

Bonner Program Staff:

  • Adia Zeman Theis, Bonner Coordinator
          azemantheis@csbsju.edu
          320-363-5237

Other Center Staff: 

  • Angie Schmidt Whitney, Director of XPD
          awhitney@csbsju.edu
          320-363-5117

Bonner Interns:

  • Anna Watt, Bonner Student Intern 
  • Lydia Mattern and Emily Cavanaugh, Bonner Student Coordinators 
          bonnerleader@csbsju.edu
          320-363-5256

 

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