Strategy Session - Student Development - Bonner Meetings, Cornerstones, Capstones

1. Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Lessons about Student Development
Bonner Network Fall Meeting

2. Agenda
10:45am - 10:55am (10min) Bonner Foundation Goals: Student Development
10:55am - 11:25am (30min) Bonner Assessment Tool & Common
Tactics(Bonner Meetings, Cornerstones, & Capstones)
11:25am - 11:35am (10min) Overview of Strategy & Tactics
11:35am - 11:45pm (10min) Developing a Strategy & Identifying Tactics
11:45am - 12:05 pm (20min) Strategy & Tactics Group Discussion
12:05pm - 12:15pm (10min) Takeaways & Foundation Support

3. Session Goals
•Review Bonner Foundation student development goals for a shared
understanding
•Assess goals and practices around student development speci
fi
c to your
program
•Develop goal(s) / strategy statement to introduce or strengthen an approach or
a practice for student development within your program
•Brainstorm potential tactics with colleagues to meet the stated goal, keeping in
mind a speci
fi
c timeline

4. Bonner Student
Development
Goals & Framework

5. Bonner Student Development Goals
Through education, training, and re
fl
ection, we
create opportunities for students to develop their
knowledge, skills, and experiences to
engage in meaningful service that bene
fi
ts all
stakeholders.

9. Bonner Campus-Wide Goal

10. Bonner Self-
Assessment Tool

11. Levels
•Level 1: Non-existent or Struggling to Introduce
•Level 2: Partially Introduced
•Level 3: Introduced and Slowly Expanding
•Level 4: Well Integrated / Established
•Level 5: Exemplary Practice / Providing a model for others

12. Bonner Meetings:
Self-Assessment Tool
(Items 17, 21, 22)

13. Bonner Meetings:
Common Tactics
•Preparing student leaders to plan and lead meetings
•Involving campus staff, faculty, partners, graduate students, &
alumni to plan and lead meetings
•Planning retreats
•Connecting meetings with a course (e.g. FYE Courses)
•Conducting survey & assessment of T&E

14. Bonner Meetings:
Example: The College of New Jersey
Involving student leaders to plan and lead meetings
•2021-22 theme of Roots
•Topics: Power, Privilege, & Ableism, Roots of Organizing, etc.
•Planned and facilitated by Bonner student leaders, Aamore
Richards '23 & Antigone Antonakakis '24

15. Cornerstone Activities:
Self-Assessment Tool
(Items 26, 27, 28, 30)

16. Cornerstone Activities:
Common Tactics
•Involving student leaders (cohort reps, interns) to help plan and
facilitate
•Utilizing Bonner National Partners for immersion trips and experiences
(ex. Morehouse & Peacework)
•Inviting & incentivizing community partners to serve as project mentors
•Linking to a new or existing course

17. Cornerstone Activities:
Example: Maryville College
Linking with a new or existing course
•First-Year Bonner Service Trip
•“Road to Justice” course (Bonners & Non-Bonners)
•Spring Semester; Week-Long
•Connects civil rights to current issues of race, prisons, & immigration
•Birmingham, Montgomery, Selma (AL) and south Georgia

18. Bonner Capstones
Self-Assessment Tool
(Items 24, 29, 36)

19. Bonner Capstones:
Common Tactics
•Introducing capstone requirement in
fi
rst-year
•Utilizing Bonner capstone curriculum
•Involving a faculty advisor or fellow
•Linking to new or existing course
•Planning a capstone retreat for Juniors and Seniors

20. Bonner Capstones:
Example: Widener University
Involving a faculty advisor or fellow
•5 faculty members serve as capstone advisors
•Coach students on capstones throughout the academic
year
•Stipend through Widener's Bonner CEL grant

21. Strategy & Tactic

22. Strategy & Tactic
•Strategy
•A strategy refers to an organization's long-term goals and how it
plans to reach them. In other words, it shows the path to achieve the
de
fi
ned vision.
•A plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim.
•Tactic
•A tactic refers to the speci
fi
c actions taken to reach the set goals in
line with the strategy.

23. Example: Siena College
Goal/Strategy Statement
Increase visibility for our Bonner
Program campus-wide by the next
academic year.

24. Tactics for Goal/Strategy: Increasing Visibility
•Begin collaboration campaign with other student
organizations.
•Open Bonner weekly meetings once a month to hold invite
other student organizations to discuss common challenges.
•Hold one Bonner meeting per semester to campus at-large,
inviting representatives from the college president’s of
fi
ce to
join in-person or virtually.

25. 1. Choose one priority area to focus on for this spring: Bonner
Meetings, Cornerstone Activities, or Capstones
2. Get into groups with others focusing on the same area.
3. Individually, using the handout, develop your goals, strategy,
and tactics for this spring. (10min)
4. Discuss your goals, strategy, and tactics in your groups. (20min)
5. If time, choose a second priority area and repeat the steps.
Strategy & Tactics

26. Invite sharing of session
takeaways.
What ways can the Bonner
Foundation support you to
make progress on your
goals?

27. Early Summer Planning Retreat