Presentation on initiatives to connect service and academics being undertaken by colleges and universities participating in the Bonner Programs.

1. CONNECTING
CO-CURRICULAR & CURRICULAR
Building Academic - Service Connections
for Bonner and Campus-wide

2. TWO MAIN STRATEGIES
Organizing
around places
and issues
Ensuring that the
developmental
model is fully
integrated

3. KEY QUESTIONS
What are your issues and places?
How can you keep the Bonner Program
linked to these ideas, while also leveraging
and building campus-wide programs?

4. Big Picture Strategies
Identify issues and place
Inventory / assess what campus is doing
(Campus Issue Profile, Siena process,
community policy forums)
Recruit students, faculty, partners
Build a collaborative structure
Connect with relevant pieces of Bonner
Program (placements, issue teams, internships,
courses) & campus service

5. Mini Grants
Utilize enrichment funds for
faculty course development
grants or stipends
Build in innovations, such as
community capacity building
and student leadership roles
Design (and select) around
particular issues and
outcomes

6. Colloquia
Semester or year-long
faculty workshops or
cohort model
Strategically reach out to
experienced, interested, and
newbie faculty
Structure stipends from
enrichment funds

7. PolicyOptions
Integrate PolicyOptions
Issue Briefs to issue
teams
Identify student research
positions (FWS, Bonner)
Link to issue forums
Use briefs in student
training & reflection

8. CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
ACADEMIC PROGRAM
Bonner Foundation’s
FIPSE funded initiative
to create a Civic
Engagement Minor/
Certificate program
14+ institutions
piloted, now
spreading nationally

9. Knowledge Areas
Co-Curricular
Public Policy
Curricular
Training & Projects &
Enrichment Coursework
Poverty 4th Year:
Senior Meetings, Special Capstone Projects/Seminars
Leadership Roles
Place-Based Knowledge 3rd Year:
Projects linked to major/
Trainings, Campus-Wide
Issue-Based Knowledge minor, CBR/Issue Briefs
Projects, Site Leadership
Global Perspective 2nd Year:
Identifiable menu of course
T&E Meetings, Second-Year
selections
Exchange
Diversity 1st Year:
Orientation, T&E Meetings, Seminars
First-Year Trip

10. Course Sequence
First Year/Sophomore
Seminars / Writing Capstone or
Integrative Seminar
Courses Courses with Full-Time
Internships / Co-Curricular
Developmental / Multi- Links
semester CBR or Service- Higher-Level / Bridge Coursework
(Methods, CBR, Service-Learning)
Learning Courses
Policy/ Poverty/ Global/
Capstone Seminars Political Economic Diversity
Analysis Analysis Awareness
Departmental and Lead-In/Gateway
interdisciplinary sequences

11. Issue Research
Build in education and practice Curricular
Projects &
Coursework
of policy research on an issue
developmentally 4th Year:
Capstone Projects/Seminars
Evolving expectations and link to 3rd Year:
Projects linked to major/
service placement (and courses) minor, CBR/Issue Briefs
at each level 2nd Year:
Identifiable menu of course
selections
Or have students work in issue
based teams on research (TCNJ 1st Year:
Seminars
model)

12. OTHER RESOURCES
cbrnet.pbwiki.com
bonnernetwork.pbwiki.
com
bonnerforum.ning.com
slideshare.net/
bonnerfoundation