Bonner Education and Training Calendar around Issues - FDM 2019

1. Strengthening Your Bonner Education
and Training Calendar Around Issues
Dr. Rachayita Shah and Liz Brandt
The Bonner Foundation
Fall Directors & Coordinators Meeting 2019

2. Introductions

3. Bingo!

4. Session Outcomes
•Discuss where we are in terms of issue-based education.
•Examine how we use Bonner meetings to facilitate
developmental issue-based education.
•Develop a strategy and identify steps to implement
developmental issue-based education in Bonner meetings

5. Where is issue-based education
happening in your Bonner Education
& Training?

6. Bonner Model

7. Some Examples to Consider

8. Introductory Course for
First Year Bonner Students

9. Road to Justice Course

10. Road to Justice Course
Maryville College

11. Issue Based Meeting Cohorts
Focused on Sophomores

12. Berry College
8-themes: Know Your Issue

13. 8-Themes
Research Evidence-based Programs

14. Intermediate / Advance Level
Course for Bonner Students

15. The College of New Jersey
Social Action Course
Climate Change and Society

16. Public Outreach: Flyers

17. Public Outreach: Tabling, Lobbying

18. Issue-based Pathway
Certificate / Minor

19. Social Justice Minor
Centre College
•Developed in 2018 out of Shepherd Higher Education
Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) Internship Committee
•Focus groups (Bonners, faculty)
•Mission, learning outcomes —> proposal to faculty committee
• Program Components:
‣Interdisciplinary Courses offered are from all three
academic divisions; Humanities (Div. I), Social Studies (Div.
II), and Science & Mathematics (Div. III)
‣Only one new course created: Intro to Social Justice
‣Experiential Learning/Practicum

20. https://www.centre.edu/majors-minors/social-justice/

21. Optional
Issue-
based
“Tracks”

22. Social Justice
ACADEMIC PROGRAM INFORMATION
has a mentor to help. Examples of such experiences would
include Shepherd Poverty Internships, many Bonner service
sites, regular internships with social welfare agencies or non-
profit groups, and some community-based learning courses.
Faculty & Staff
ANDREA ABRAMS (Ph.D., Emory University), Associate
Professor of Anthropology, Associate Vice President for
Diversity Affairs
RICK AXTELL (Ph.D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary),
Stodghill Professor of Religion, College Chaplain
AMY FREDERICK (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University),
Assistant Professor of Art History
MATT KASSNER (Ph.D., Purdue University), Assistant Professor
of Psychology
ANDREW PATRICK (Ph.D., University of Kentucky), Assistant
Director of CTL; Experiential Learning Coordinator; Assistant
Professor of History
ELLEN PRUSINSKI (Ph.D., Indiana University), Assistant
Professor of Education
JAMIE SHENTON (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University), Assistant
Professor of Anthropology
JESSIE WEASNER (M.T.S., Vanderbilt Divinity School), Director
of Community Service and The Bonner Program
BEAU WESTON (Ph.D., Yale University), Van Winkle Professor
of Sociology, Social Work Advisor
KAELYN WILES (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison),
Assistant Professor of Sociology
MINDY WILSON (M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill), Associate Director of CCPD
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT
Beau Weston, Program Chair
600 West Walnut Street
Danville, Kentucky 40422
859.238.8789
beau.weston@centre.edu
RELATED WEBSITE
Social Justice Program Overview
The Centre Commitment
We back our promise with a deeply engaging and intensely
personal education guarantee. If you meet regular academic
and social expectations, you will complete all three parts of
the Centre Commitment, or the college will provide up to an
additional year of study tuition-free.
Centre students will:
• Study abroad
Social justice is an interdisciplinary minor that focuses on
issues related to social inequities and marginalization.
The Minor
Through the study of theory, empirical evidence, and literature
across disciplines and discourses; analysis; experiential learning;
and personal reflection, students will:
• Identify and interrogate a variety of explanations
for persistent social inequalities, such as personal/
behavioral; systemic/structural; cultural; social-
psychological analyses.
• Understand the intersections of class, race, gender,
sexuality, age, ability, and other elements of social
location, as well as how these affect people’s access to
social institutions, opportunities, and life outcomes.
• Ground an analysis of social injustice in the perspectives
of those who are marginalized in society.
• Examine and interrelate the politics and economics of
human development; the power dynamics in society;
and the function and role of various intersecting social
institutions, both private and public.
• Articulate a vision of social justice from multiple
perspectives.
• Reflect on one’s own role in society related to power
and privilege, agency, engaged citizenship, and social
change.
What Courses Will I Take?
The social justice minor requires six courses: Introduction
to Social Justice (SLJ 210); a research methods course, an
intersectionality course; a political-economy course; and two
electives from a very wide array.
One unusual feature of the Social Justice minor is that you will
complete a practicum. This consists of a field experience, a
one-credit course analyzing that experience, and some public

23. Is Your Approach Developmental?
If so, how? If not, why not?
What are the barriers?

24. • Why did you pick this approach? Is there already a structure in place or is
this brand new?
• How do you structure meetings?
• Who do you collaborate with to facilitate meetings?
• What is working well in terms of structure, content, student outcomes?
• What changes will you need to make?
Group Discussion Questions