For the June 7th session at Wagner College with the Bonner Community

1. “The Sweet Spot:”
Bridging Values, Learning,
and Doing through the Capstone
BonnerSummerLeadershipInstitute2018
Wednesday, June 7, 2018 from 9:00 am to 10:45 am

2. The Five E’s
Expectation
Exploration
Experience
Example
Expertise

4. High-Impact
Education
First Year Experience
Learning Community
Internship
Undergraduate Research
Capstone
Diversity/Global

5. The LEAP Challenge calls
on colleges and universities
to build pathways where all
undergraduates to
complete a substantial
“cross-disciplinary project
in a topic significant to the
student and society, as part
of the expected pathway to
a degree” (AAC&U, 2016).

6. Civic-Minded Graduate
Identity
Civic
Experiences
Educational
Experiences
Cultural Norms and
Social Context
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2
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Civic-Minded Graduate
(CMG)
The Civic “Sweet Spot”

9. A Capstone is…
• Team or individual project
• Done in 3rd and/or 4th year
• Benefits a community constituency
(group, nonprofit, government,
school, environment, etc.) by
addressing identified issue or need
• Provides student(s) with opportunity
for integrative learning and doing

10. Integrates Purposes

11. The Collaborative Turn
Instructional Paradigm
The faculty determines the
content and the way the
content will be delivered.
Learning Paradigm
The faculty creates a learning
environment in which students
learn through active and
collaborative teaching and
learning practices.
“Collaborative Paradigm”
The faculty, students, and
community partners
collaboratively determine the
content to be covered, the way
in which the content is best
learned, and are collectively
responsible for learning.
Provide/deliver instruction Produce learning Co-produce learning
Transfer knowledge from faculty to
students
Elicit student discovery and construction
of knowledge
Collaboratively discover and construct
knowledge
Covering material Specified learning results Co-determine the learning outcomes
and collaborate in the modes of
instruction and assessment
End-of-course assessment Pre/during/post assessment Students and community partners
collaborate in formative and summative
assessments
Faculty are primarily lecturers Faculty are primarily designers of learning
methods and environments
Faculty in collaboration with students
and community partners determine
learning methods and create learning
environments
Teachers classify and sort students Teachers develop every students’
competencies and talents
Teachers and students and community
partners together enhance students’
competencies and talents
Saltmarsh, 2014

12. This Session
• Students
• Alumni
• Staff
• Faculty

13. Students
Aleah Qureshi
(Wofford Bonner Class of 2018)
Alexander Nichols
(Davidson Bonner Class of 2019)
Ashlee Renich-Malek
(Stetson Bonner Class of 2018)
Kai Mangino
(TCNJ Bonner Class of 2019)
Taylor Clarke
(Stetson Bonner Class of 2018)

19. Bonner Graduate
Alexandria Calascibetta
Toms River, NJ
Wagner College Class of 2018
Major in Arts Administration and
Minor in Civic Engagement

20. Administrators & Faculty
• Kevin Winchell (Stetson University)
• Arlette Cespeda (Wagner College)
• Ramon Galinanes (Wofford College)
• Gretchen Mielke (Widener
University)
• Christian Rice (Ursinus College)
• Bernadette Ludwig (Wagner
College)