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Below you may download document or PDF versions of the assessment tools (or collateral materials related to them) discussed in this section. Additionally, we have added some other links and resources that may be helpful to you.

Making the Case Guide

Guide to Producing a Compelling Report on the Benefits of the Bonner Program and Community Engagement

The guide provides step-by-step instructions to support a Bonner Program and community engagement unit to produce a comprehensive report that describes the positive impacts of this work. This guide is designed to help your center and program evaluate and make case for its Bonner Program and center’s work, much in the same way that other units or departments might articulate their value. The guide will help you quantifiably, quantitatively, and financially demonstrate to key stakeholders that the Bonner Program and civic and community engagement centers accrue major benefits for institutional priorities.

• Making the Case Guide.pdf
• Making the Case Guide.docx 
• Bonner Learning Community Self-Paced Webinar

Rubric Assessments

• Bonner Foundation Self-Assessment Tool (required to be implemented annually in conjunction with the Annual Report)
• We update the Self-Assessment Tool (created in 2005) annually. Linked is the 2016 version. Campus programs also submit their assessments via a Survey Monkey to the Foundation.

• Building Capacity for Community Engagement: Institutional Self-Assessment (produced in partnership with Campus-Community Partnerships for Health).
• The full CCPH tool is linked here.
• The article "Building Capacity for Community-Engaged Scholarship" is linked here.
• Another good resource is this presentation, "Advancing Community Engaged Scholarship," developed by Serena Seifer (formerly Executive Director of CCPH). 

Frameworks

• Analyzing Institutional Commitment to Service: A Model of Key Organizational Factors (1997)
• This article by Barbara Holland is linked here.

• Institutionalizing Service-Learning in Higher Education (1999)
• This article by Andrew Furco is linked here.

• Creating Community-Engaged Departments: Self-Assessment Rubric for the Institutionalization of Community Engagement in Academic Departments (2009)
• This article by Kevin Kecskes is linked here.

Quantitative Surveys

• National Assessment of Service and Community Engagement (Survey instrument administered by Siena Research Institute).
• To learn how to participate in the NASCE, visit this page: https://scri.siena.edu/nasce/ 
• Here is a document that addresses the instrument's validity (for the Bonner Network) and provides a sense of what the report looks like.

• National Survey of Student Engagement (Survey instrument likely used on your campus but administered by NSSE).
• To learn more or how to participate in NSSE (or whether your institution already participates), visit this page: http://nsse.indiana.edu/ 
• NSSE routinely reviews and updates its instrument to incorporate new learning and best practices.
• 2016 NSSE Instrument: NSSE_2016-US_English.pdf
• 2014 NSSE Instrument: NSSE 2014 - US English.pdf
• 2015 Civic Engagement Module: NSSE 2015 Civic Engagement Module.pdf

• The Personal and Social Responsibility Inventory (PSRI): An Institutional Climate Measure 
• To learn how to participate in the PSRI, visit this page: http://www.psri.hs.iastate.edu/participation.php
• One article that describes the findings from the PSRI and the role of campus climate in shaping student behavior is "Perceptions of Campus Climates for Civic Learning as Predictors of College Students’ Mental Health," by Joshua J. Mitchell, Robert D. Reason, Kevin M. Hemer & Ashley Finley. You may find other articles and publications on this page: http://www.psri.hs.iastate.edu/publications.php. To cite this article: Joshua J. Mitchell, Robert D. Reason, Kevin M. Hemer & Ashley Finley (2016) Perceptions of Campus Climates for Civic Learning as Predictors of College Students’ Mental Health, Journal of College and Character, 17:1, 40-52. 

Publications

• A Crucible Moment
•  To obtain printed copies of this publication, visit AACU's publication store here.
• You may download a copy here. 

• Stepping Forward as Stewards of Place (published by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities)
• You may download a copy here. 

External Review

• Carnegie Community Engagement Classification
• The application for 2024 will be available here.
• 2015 First-Time Application: 2015_First-time_Framework-CarnegieCEClassification.pdf
• 2015 Reclassification Application: 2015-ReclassificationCarnegieCE.pdf