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2017 Fall Directors and Coordinators Meeting

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Agenda


 

Downloadable Version: 2017 FDM Agenda.pdf  

 


All-Group Sessions


Pre-Conference on Social Action and Community Organizing

On November 3-4, individuals from several campuses will join Scott Myers-Lipton, Professor of Sociology at San José State University, for a pre-conference on how to integrate social action education through a course or co-curricular seminar. Myers-Lipton brought his experience as a community organizer to teach students these approaches and is the author of Change!, a new book he has shared with the Bonner network to replicate the idea. He and others have been successful in social action initiatives, including raising the minimum wage in San José and developing jobs for displaced workers. He has worked to help students develop solutions to poverty by taking them to live at homeless shelters, the Navajo and Lakota nations, the US Gulf Coast, and Kingston, Jamaica. He has also authored several books, like Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights Approach to Eliminate Poverty.  Your campus can still join these efforts, even if you are not attending the pre-conference! 

 

Resources:

Social Action-Syllabus

Social Action Reading List

Handout for Social Action Preparation

Pre-order the book here.

 

Opening Session

We’ll kick off the meeting with an all-group session that presents some analysis and thinking about the important opportunity to strengthen supports and experiences for students in the junior and senior year. This session also sets up the framework for the three rotations that campus teams will participate in – focusing on student leadership roles, training and enrichment, and integrating a capacity-building capstone. 

 

Resources:

Strengthening the Third and Fourth Years 

  

Liberating Service Learning

Traditional institutionalized service learning has produced weak outcomes for students and even weaker outcomes for communities. This presentation is for all of us who believe we can do more and do better.  We will completely rethink higher education community engagement toward a model that can produce real community outcomes and real social change. Randy Stoecker is a Professor in the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin. He has led numerous participatory action research projects with community development corporations, community organizing groups, community information technology programs, and others in North America and Australia. Randy has written extensively on community organizing, including the works: Defending Community, Research Methods for Community Change, Community-Based Research in Higher Education, and Liberating Service Learning.

 

Resources:

Liberating_Service_Learning Chart

 

 

Bonner Business

Resources:

 

Bonner Assessment Initiatives Overview (handout you may share with others on campus): Bonner Assessment Initiatives Overview.pdf

Bonner Progression Data Study Findings (which you may also share with others): 

 

Stepping Up and Out: A Discussion of Bonner's Distinctive Approach to Campus and Community Change

Over the past decade, we have been thinking and working on staff developmental pathways, which start with student leader roles and move to center directors (and beyond). In this session, we’ll work in small groups to consider and articulate the ways that Bonner’s approach to community engagement is distinctive. We hope to have a rich discussion on how we work on community partnerships, student development, and campus-wide change, one that positions Bonner as the training ground for the leaders in the field.

 

Resources:

2017 FDM Discussion Handout 

 

 


Third and Fourth Year Rotations


This year, we worked in three strategy sessions devoted to key components of the Bonner Program, but through a lens of intentionally strengthening the 3rd and 4th year.

 

Building Developmental Capacity through Bonner Student Leadership

Student leadership is one of the foundational cornerstones of the Bonner program. Student leaders not only act as an extension of campus staff and provide an outlet for greater peer-to-peer mentorship, but also have potential to help address significant challenges facing the program, campus, community, field, and network. Our current challenge is creating scaffolding and support necessary to promote the highest level of engagement for students within the third and fourth year of the Bonner Program. This session hopes to provide strategies and engage in discussion about how student leadership can help build this developmental capacity through an emphasis on community-based capacity building projects.

 

Resources:

Student Leadership Handouts and Worksheets
Capacity Building Opportunities Form
Capacity Building Project Profile Form
Capacity Building Accomplishments
Capacity Building Resource Guide

Bonner Student Leadership Guide

 

The Bonner Senior Capstone: Putting Community Engaged Signature Work into Action

In 2015, we began discussing Community Engaged Signature Work, the idea that students culminate their undergraduate education with an integrative experiential education project. Last year, we discussed the concept to give it greater definition, identifying needs to build it (like getting buy-in from partners and faculty). Since that time, 15+ colleges and universities have participated in a community of practice to integrate it on campus. About half of them have already integrated a capstone expectation for senior Bonners or are working to carry these projects out this year. Others have identified this as an aspiration. This strategy session will provide time for staff to identify a model that works best for their campus. Teams will share strategies and approaches, learn from each other, and engage in developing the supports and tools to integrate capacity-building senior capstones. We’ll discuss: (1) identifying projects and connecting students with partners; (2) defining the capstone (and expectations); (3) advising; (4) educational, meeting and training structures; (5) if and how faculty and/or credit are involved. Please bring your own examples and ideas to share!

 

Resources:

Capstone Handouts and Worksheets 

Siena College Example of Four-Year academic progression (COM-D):

Siena Example - COMD-INFORMATIONFORCAPSTONESTUDENTSMENTORS (1).pdf

Siena College Example of Capstone Proposal Worksheet completed by students for their capacity-building project:

Siena Example - CBRCapstoneTEMPLATE (1).pdf

 

Google Drive with additional folders and supporting materials: 

 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B0D1p-OU6uVPWmRDaWhaNUphczA?usp=sharing

(If necessary, request access or email Ariane Hoy at ahoy@bonner.org to add you to this or a Basecamp).

 

Developing and Deepening the Bonner Training and Enrichment Calendar

Every Bonner Program uses a variety of strategies to develop and implement their Training Calendar. Our hope that is through trainings students are able to reflect on their experience, be exposed our knowledge areas, and develop personal and leadership skills. This session will explore how our network can use current and new tools to deepen the developmental scaffolding that supports students to take on higher levels of leadership and projects. Campus teams will have the opportunity to reflect on their own training calendar and learn from others, walking away with ideas to strengthen each program.

 

Resources:

Semester at a Glance Recommended Calendar

2017 FDM T&E Worksheets

Recommended Trainings

 


Elective Workshops


A Community Engagement Co-Curriculum / Betsy Shimberg / Brown University

The Swearer Center is building a co-curriculum for our 90 current Bonner Fellows (160 at full scale) and for the additional 800+ students who engage with communities through our Center. This workshop will  share the process by which we developed learning outcomes, created individual workshop templates to align with these outcomes, mapped our existing co-curriculum, and built an Intranet library. The second half of the workshop will be interactive as we together crowdsource ideas for advanced workshops that build student capacity around systems change. 

 

Resources:

Swearer Center Competencies and Learning Outcomes

Workshop Template

Workshops, Learning Outcomes, and Associated Competencies

Workshop Library

 

Connecting Community Engagement to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals / Beth Blissman / NGO United Nations, Loretto Community

In this time when civic engagement is more crucial than ever, we need to approach the topic from many different perspectives and through many different lenses. One perspective that many people born in the U.S. do not know about encompasses the highest hopes of humanity: the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The seventeen SDGs are the "strategic plan" of the 193 nation states with representation at the UN, and the idea is to achieve them by 2030 - join us to see how your service is part of an international agenda!

 

Resources:

 

Continued Wellness: A Discussion of Resources / Ashley Cochrane and Caroline Twiggs / Berea College and Mars Hill University

This workshop will provide an opportunity to focus on and discuss the concepts of wellness and well-being in the Bonner Program. During this session, participants will reflect on what makes up wellness – including the notion of mental health, physical health, thriving, and resilience – and also talk about some of the challenges (like stress and depression). Then, we'll have a chance to identify and discuss what campus resources students can access to support their own wellness. As Bonner Program Staff, we will discuss what we can do to promote wellness in our programs. 

 

Resources:

Notes from the session (which shared other campus resources and models): 
Continued Wellness - notes from session - Bonner Fall Dir Mtg 11.17.docx

 

Deepening Impact through your Programmatic Training Calendar/ Kelly Finn and Katie Zyniecki / Siena College

Training and reflection are both integral parts of our Bonner programs.  Siena College recently went through a redesign of our programmatic training calendar to enhance campus wide engagement and deepen our impact in the community.  The voice of students in our program played a huge role in making these changes and we are in the process of assessing our redesigned training calendar.  This workshop is open to anyone who is interested in taking part in building a four year training calendar, or is interested in playing a role in redesigning their training calendar.  We will also focus on utilizing student leadership to increase the quality of a training calendar.  This session will be interactive and a chance for Directors and Coordinators to exchange ideas and best practices. 

 

Resources:

 

Engaged Signature Work and the Civic Minded Graduate / Dave Roncolato and Ellen Bach / Allegheny College

Drawing on AAC&U’s Signature Work and the IUPUI Center for Service and Learning’s CivicMinded Graduate Model, this workshop will explore the multiple dimensions of a strong, comprehensive and impactful civic engagement effort leading to a culminating Engaged Signature Projects for Bonner students and others. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on the strength and weaknesses of their own campus and community. What are possible next steps or first steps in building on the strength of the particular community and institution? 

 

Resources:

Engaged Signature work and the Civic Minded Gradute Workshop (3).pdf

Civic Minded Graduate Workshop - Case Studies.pdf  

 

Political Consciousness but not Political Engagement / Dave Harker / Ithaca College

How can service-learning program impact the ways students think about politics and political engagement? There are reasons to expect that service-learning can contribute to the development of a political consciousness and the skills necessary for political participation, but does it lead to political participation. Do students consider themselves politically engaged? If not, what are the potential barriers?  This session will provide an overview of David's research on how participation in an in-depth service-learning program shapes the ways students think about their service as it relates to politics. Then it will move into a discussion on how it relates to everyone's work.  

 

Resources:

 

Problematizing Service for Students in Providence / Juan Carlos Carranza / Brown University

The Swearer Center has developed a workshop, called "Providence is Not Your Playground" that we piloted with our Bonner Fellows and have now used as part of our training for all student volunteers. This workshop is aimed at exploring the history and relationship between Brown University and the City of Providence, encouraging members to contextualize themselves as participants in this history, and providing resources for effective engagement in Providence. In this session we will deliver a condensed version of the workshop and then work with other campuses to think about how to translate the template of the workshop to unpack the relationships between their campuses and the cities where they reside. 

 

Resources:

PVD Is Not Our Playground Workshop Outline

 

Professional Development for Bonner and SL/CE Staff / Michael Nordquist / The College of New Jersey

 How have you supported your colleagues and staff members to advance their careers and performance? What opportunities and strategies have you and your institutions utilized to further your colleagues' ability to increase the impact of their work and efforts? Given the continued professionalization and credentialization of our work, how have you leveraged resources to empower your colleagues? This session will be a discussion about strategies to create developmental opportunities for staff, share resources and frameworks of professional development within the field, and think about how we can support one another within and beyond the Bonner network. 

 

Resources:

Preliminary Competency Model

 

Strengthening Student Leadership: Models from Across the Network / Laurie Chandler, Michael Zirkel, Jasmine Rangel, Jessie Scott / Berry College, Bonner Foundation, Depauw University

This workshop provides a deeper look into the student leadership models from Berry College and DePauw University. Staff from each Bonner program will provide an overview of their leadership structure, rationale for the development of their student leadership team, reasoning for their leadership roles,  and how leadership will continue to change in the future. With this glimpse into other successful student leadership models and opportunity to ask questions, it is the hope that participants will gain useful strategies for strengthening their own Bonner student leadership and ways that student leadership can develop capacity for high level engagement.

 

Resources: