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2018 Fall Directors Meeting Archives

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Click here to download printed program.

 

In 2018-2019, we look ahead to the 30th Anniversary of the Bonner Program and celebrate the network’s decades of hard work to create positive change in our communities and advance the integration and practice of community engagement in higher education. We redouble our efforts to share our stories within and beyond our campuses and communities. 

 

At this Bonner Fall Directors and Coordinators Meeting, we will engage in opportunities to:

 

Capture and share our stories and impact in inspiring, compelling ways: 

Provide campus teams with a working opportunity to develop a vision, strategy, and plan for creating inspirational reports and other mechanisms that capture the stories of engagement and impact of our Bonner Programs, centers, and institutions. This will include:

  • How we talk about the deep, lasting impact we have on students’ learning and success; 
  • How to capture and showcase the ways that our engagement builds community and organizational capacity and value to our partners; 
  • How we can quantify and broadcast our value and impact for colleges and universities.

 

Advance strategic initiatives that can strengthen the quality and impact of our collective work:

As we reflect on and integrate new approaches to strengthen students’ four-year development and off campus community engagement, we will: 

  • Engage with themes across eight semesters and how we can improve Bonner Program training, education, and meeting structures;
  • Discuss efforts to identify and integrate capacity building projects and capstones into students’ work, including ways to develop projects with partners and effectively engaging faculty allies; and
  • Consider how we can connect the more than 15,000 Bonner Alumni to each other, our programs, and our campuses. 

 

Support staff professional development, collegial support, and wellness: 

The meeting will provide intentional opportunities for staff to engage in a variety of activities for learning and support. We highlight professional development by providing:

  • Intentional all group sessions that support staff in critical skill building, deep dialogue, and programmatic achievements;
  • A competency oriented approach for strategy sessions and elective workshops; and 
  • Networking and fellowship throughout the meeting.

 

Here, you may download a pdf of the conference program. We will also be adding presentations, handouts, and other documents to this page. Thank you!

 

All Group Sessions

 

Below you may access the slides and handouts from the all-group sessions. These are linked from uploads on Slideshare.net, where you may download the files. Email Bonner Foundation staff if you would like a Keynote or Powerpoint version of these materials. We will also be sharing a Dropbox Folder of materials with you. Thank you!

 

 

Our Bonner Network Story

In keeping with the overarching theme of this year’s meeting, Foundation Staff will engage all in reflecting on our collective story. We will share compelling pieces of our network’s work over the past year in areas like:

  • Community impact and capacity building

  • Culminating integrative projects and capstones

  • Student development and learning

  • Initial findings from the Student Impact Survey

  • Campus change


 

All Group Session: Capturing and Telling Our Bonner Network Story

Through an interactive all-group session, staff will have a chance to share and learn from a variety of ways in which campuses have captured and told their stories. This includes in formats like center annual reports, student and alumni profiles, issue-oriented project reports, community forums, videos, and more. We’ll also wrestle with how we can shift this narrative to focus even more strongly on amplifying the impacts we have on student success, learning, and community capacity.

 

 

All Group Session: Capacity Building and Capstones

This session will include a deeper overview of what is happening with partners and capacity building this year. We invite staff to share their ideas and tips that are working with integrating capacity building projects as well as barriers, so that we may solve them together. We’ll also walk through the new capstone 8-part series so that campuses can discuss how much they will implement and how.

 

 

8 Themes Strategy Sessions: Calendar Planning

After the immersion, campus staff will have the opportunity to review the 8 themes curriculum and consider how they might realistically pilot some of these series during this year. Foundation Staff will provide a brief overview of the themes, highlighting content and progression. Then, campus staff will look at implementation issues, such as scheduling and timing.

 

 

Special Session with Sustained Dialogue Institute

We are joined by Rhonda Fitzgerald of Sustained Dialogue Institute, a national partner based in Washington DC that helps people to transform conflictual relationships and design change processes around the world. Sustained Dialogue Institute defines dialogue as “listening deeply enough to be changed by what you learn.”

 

As the Managing Director for the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network (SDCN), Rhonda Fitzgerald works to train, mentor, and provide guidance to a broad range of institutions and individuals seeking to transform their communities through Sustained Dialogue. Rhonda has been with SDI for 10 years, working with students, faculty, senior administrators, campus leaders, and facilitators to build lasting structures for inclusion on campuses. As an engaging public speaker and facilitator, Rhonda has a passion for developing college aged leaders with civic competency and cultural humility.

 

 

 

Bonner Network Input Sessions

During this block, Foundation staff wishes to gain network input on some new initiatives, especially the Bonner Pipeline Project and the Bonner Alumni Net- work. Through interactive activities and dialogues, we hope to gather important information to help shape the future direction on these and other projects.

 

 

All Group Session: Campus-Wide Data Collection and Tracking

In this final session, we will discuss campus-wide tracking. George Luc, Founder of GivePulse, will join us. As part of this, we will especially focus on how to put in place tracking mechanisms and inventories of community engaged learning and course connections. Campus staff will be invited to share their approaches, platforms, learning, and other insights. As part of this we will discuss aspects of the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification and its link to the GivePulse system.

 

 

8-Themes Previews

Below are the presentations, also, from the 8-themes previews. Keep in mind that these were designed specifically for the Fall Directors Meetings to introduce and gain feedback on key aspects of the workshop series, content, and methods and are not the finished lesson plans. Completed sessions will be uploaded to the Wiki in the next few weeks.

 

From Service to Solutions for Freshmen - with Liz Brandt

 

Knowing Your Issue for Sophomores - with Kristi Cordier and Jasmine Rangel
  • This session will preview a series that can teach students how to research and discover the public policies and program models related to their work. Staff will understand the progression of this curriculum and how best to use it with their students over the course of a semester (or longer). This series supports students to complete an issue brief. Handout:  Knowing Your Issue Worksheets.pdf

Managing Projects for Juniors with Bobby Hackett and Arthur Tartee
  • This session will preview the new series on project management, which uses a board game and case studies of capacity building projects. Staff will immerse in how to lead these workshops, in a train-the-trainers approach. 

 

 

 

Building Organizational Capacity for Juniors - with Ariane Hoy and Rachayita Shah

 

  • This session will preview workshops designed to help upper class students understand the sectors (especially nonprofit) and how they might engage in building the capacity of an organization. This series also focuses on student career development, helping them identify future pathways. Source Document for Framework: Effective Capacity Building in Nonprofit Organizations(1).pdf 

 

 

 

 

Elective Workshops

 

We will also be gathering materials from presenters and their elective workshops. They will be posted in the next few weeks.  

 

Block 1

 

1:1 101 with Michael Zirkel, Berry College

Who meets with the Bonner student? What's the script? When in the semester/year? Where does it all happen? How is the 1:1 scheduled? The why, however, is universal: be-cause we care. At Berry, each student within the Bonner Program will meet with a member
of the Bonner staff at least once per semester (in addition to other members of the Berry and Rome community). This workshop aims to highlight the 1:1 sessions that have shown success at Berry College within the Bonner Scholars Program, while sharing the opportunity for collaboration with other institutions on what has worked (or even what hasn't). 

Competencies: facilitating student learning and development, such as full participation and student success

 

Notes from the workshop conversation: Conference Notes on 1 on 1s.docx

 

Campus Anti-Racism Training - with James Shields, Guilford College

At Guilford, students, staff, and faculty participate in anti-racism training. This is especially important in preparing students for volunteer experiences off campus in the greater Greensboro area, where they work with a diverse multicultural population. Additionally, this training gives students a social justice lens. In this session, you’ll learn about the framework and strategies used.

Competencies: builds a culture of full participation and facilitates critical thinking about social action and justice

 

Connecting Your Students with a Washington DC Experience - with Greg Weight, Washington Internships Institute (WII) 

The Washington Internship Institute is a nonprofit organization based in Washington DC and a national Bonner Partner. Its mission is to foster students' intellectual, personal, and professional development through individually tailored, quality internships and challenging academic coursework that take full advantage of the opportunities available in the nation's capital and reflect the best practices of experiential learning and liberal education. In this session with its President (a former Dean and

supporter of the Bonner Program at Ursinus College), Bonner Program staff will have the opportunity to learn how Bonner Scholars and Leaders might connect with WII for a summer internship, a school year immersion, or even through a program’s immersion trip to the nation’s capital. This discussion and dialogue based session will give staff ideas to take back to share with students and others on campus.

Competencies: manages partnerships that involve students in multiyear development and facilitates knowledge sharing across sectors.


 

Integrative Pathways: A Discussion -  with Ariane Hoy, Bonner Foundation and David Roncolato, Allegheny College

We’ve all heard about promising changes in campus curriculum, such as new majors and minors that focus on topics like Local and Global Health or Food Justice. Some of our own campuses have such programs in the works. At times, they are initiated by engaged faculty in particular departments. At other times, they are spearheaded by senior leaders with spotty support from faculty. Worse times, our own centers and staff are left out of the process. We invite staff to a discussion session to share more about what is happening on our campuses. Our goal is to learn from each other and to then brainstorm and discuss what kinds of supports and initiatives the Bonner Foundation could create that would be effective.

Competencies: develops and builds relationships with faculty and drives curricular and co-curricular integration.

 

Handout: AAC&U Integrative Learning VALUE Rubric

Handout: What are Integrative Learning Pathways (Overview)

Handout: Reflecting on Student Learning with the Integrative Learning Rubric (Questions and Worksheet)

Handout: Ideas for Feedback from the Bonner Network

 

Working Session: How to Support Students of Concern - with Katie Kahn, Teressa Price, and Stephanie Shanklin, The College of New Jersey

TCNJ Bonner Staff will hold a discussion and sharing session on supporting students of concern within Bonner. We'd like to discuss how other campuses have found success in supporting students, utilizing student leadership, and collaborating with other on-and-off-campus entities to provide a robust network of supports for our students.

Competencies: recruits and supports diverse students and supports full participation and student success

 

Block 2

 

Between the Ideal and Real: How Community Engagement Centers Navigate Developing and Sustaining Community Partnerships with Shuli Archer, Warren Wilson College

The Warren Wilson College Center for Community Engagement consistently sets the intention to enhance and sustain community partnerships that are mutually beneficial and reciprocal. Yet, at the end of each year we bemoan the amount of time we spend behind a screen communicating with partners, rather than being in and with the community. Using the SOFAR framework (Bringle, Clayton, & Price, 2009) as a guide, this session will create a space for Bonner staff, faculty, and partners to reflect on what is and isn’t working with our partnerships. We will leave with ideas and strategies to move more towards the “ideal.”

Competencies: deepens and expands program partnerships, ensures community voice, and assesses community impacts.

 

GivePulse: Ins and Outs + What Can Be Done with Campus-Wide Tracking Databases like Ours! with George Luc, GivePulse 

To do community engagement well, one must assess, learn, and agilely improve the work done in the community. In order to scale and streamline this work, technology is a must to track, coordinate and collect data way beyond just the hours. We will explore databases like GivePulse, and go in depth about what functionality, and features, are necessary to organize service learning courses, projects, programs, research and all community activities through curricular and co-curricular pathways. Most importantly, we will discuss how the technology sits in middle between University, Users (students, faculty, staff and alumni) and Community Partners.

Competencies: benchmarks programs and gathers and shares data and evidence.

FDM18 - GivePulse - Ins and Outs.pdf

 

The Sweet Spot: Supporting Your Program to Integrate Capacity Building Capstones -  with Ariane Hoy, Bonner Foundation and David Roncolato, Allegheny College

In this workshop, we will talk about the Bonner Capstone Project in more depth. You will have time, as staff, to discuss and strategize about how to use the 8-part series of workshops to support integration of capstones. We will supplement this with discussion of staff roles in working with community partners to identify capacity building project requests and how you can help your students integrate these roles over four years. Additionally, we will talk on a broader level about strategies that are effective for students to get their Bonner Programs more connected with faculty, coursework, and academic experience in general. This is especially targeted for schools who have not yet integrated the capstone requirement.

Competencies: designs student development strategies, enhances integrative learning, and drives curricular and co-curricular integration.

Handout: Bonner Capstone Definition and Examples (across many different project types and disciplines/majors)

Handout: Draft and Preview of Capstone Curriculum Session #1 (for freshmen)

 

Your Vote is Your Voice! - with Betsy Shimberg, Brown University

Over the past year, the Swearer Center prioritized civic engagement broadly, with a specific focus on student voting behavior at Brown. This workshop will share the strategies, tools, and student engagement techniques that we employed. Workshop participants will have time to share their own civic engagement work and consider new ways to encourage voting behavior on their campuses.

Competencies: integrates civic and social action education, reflection, and engagement.

PDF for the workshop: Bonner Directors 2018 -Brown Workshop.pdf

 

Zero Hunger Academy: A Project with the Congressional Hunger Center with Shannon Maynard, Congressional Hunger Center 

Launched by the Congressional Hunger Center in consultation with leading anti-hunger organizations, Zero Hunger Academy is an online course containing four distinct learning modules designed to provide useful information to users to strengthen their understanding of hunger and food insecurity in America and introduce them to an array of perspectives on what are the most effective community and policy solutions. During this session, we'll preview some of the modules and learning content now available to the Bonner network and highlight other ways Bonners are getting involved in this partnership between the Congressional Hunger Center and Bonner Foundation including the Zero Hunger Internship Program and Zero Hunger Campus Network. Competencies: creates a broader place-based strategy for capacity building and sustained partnerships that contribute to community impacts.


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