2017 Fall Directors and Coordinators Meeting, Presented by Michael Nordquist, TCNJ

1. Bonner Directors
Meeting 2017
Claggett Center, Adamstown, MD
November 7, 2017

2. • Overview and Goals
• Why I think this matters
• Approaches to SL/CE professional development
• What We’ve Done
• What You’ve Done and/or Experienced
• What We/You/Bonner Should Do?

3. Today we will:
• Take away some strategies around professional
development opportunities;
• Be introduced to frameworks of professional
development within the field of SL/CE;
• Think about and be a part of how we can
support one another within and beyond the
Bonner network.

4. • 3rd year Center director
• Bonner Community Scholars
• Community Engaged Learning
• Research & Initiatives
• Staff of 12-16-25, depending how you count
• Varied backgrounds, skills, training
• Varied tasks, responsibilities, expectations
• Similar set of values, dispositions, attitudes (?)

5. • Professionalization/Credentialization of field
• “Second generation” community engagement
infrastructures (Welch and Saltmarsh, 2013)
• Career pathways
• Navigate personal/political commitments through
work
• Support network of committed colleagues

6. • Bonner Staff Development Model
• 2010 Directors Meeting, Bonner National Fellows
• Diving Deep: Roles and Responsibilities
• McReynolds and Shields (Iowa Campus Compact, 2015)
• Community Engagement Professional: Competencies
• Dostilio et al. (Campus Compact, 2017)

7. Domains
• Skills and talents needed to
get to this level and stay
there
• Knowledge needed
• Habits needed
• Challenges faced at this
level
• What they want from other
colleagues
• What colleagues appreciate
• Details available on old wiki
Brackets
• "The Future:” 0-2 years
• “The Not-so-new Kids on the
Block:” 3-4 years
• “The Emerging Professionals:”5-
6 years
• “The Middle Management:” 6-8
years
• “The Confident Professionals:”
9-11 years
• “The Established & Wisdom
Seeking Professionals:”12-14
years
• “The Seasoned Survivors” (a.k.a.
the Wizards) : 15+ years

8. Roles
• Educator/Reflector/Communicator
• Organizational Manager
• Field Contributor
• Institutional Strategic Leader
• Community Innovator
• Different levels:
• Novice
• Intermediate
• Advanced

9. Integrated pieces of knowledge, skill, and attitude
• Critical Commitments
• Leading Change in Higher Education
• Institutionalizing Community Engagement on Campus
• Facilitating Students’ Civic Learning and Development
• Administering Community Engagement Programs
• Facilitating Faculty Development and Support
• Cultivating High Quality Partnerships

10. • Feel overwhelmed at everything expected
of us?
• Quit now?
• Try to do everything?

11. “The primary goal of developing a list of
competencies is to make it possible to create paths
through individuals gain competence.Without a
systematic and empirical basis for a competency
schema, our paths for competence development will
be based in trial and error. […] An accompanying
goal is to make visible the critical commitments
(Dostilio 45).”

12. “[Community Engagement Professionals] must be
committed to the struggle for the liberation of
oppressed populations.This includes a deeper
examination of the way in which community
engagement is constructed within higher education
and carried out in communities, so as not to reflect a
unidirectional form of practice that dismisses the
power of the collective struggle (Hernandez and
Pasquesi, 70).”

13. • Staff conversations re: competencies,
assets, needs
• Highlight and focus on particular needs
• Find appropriate training and learning
opportunities (conferences, speakers, etc.)
• Staff meetings as educational opportunities
• Build off of strategic plan, including
mission, vision, values, and goals

14. How have you supported your colleagues, staff,
and self to advance their careers and
performance?
What opportunities and strategies have you and
your institutions utilized to further your and your
colleagues' ability to increase the impact of your
and their work and efforts?
Given the continued professionalization and
credentialization of our work, how have you
leveraged resources to empower yourself and
your colleagues?