Presented at the 2018 Bonner Fall Directors Meeting by Michael Zirkel, Berry College. Who meets with the Bonner student? What's the script? When in the semester/year? Where does it all happen? How is the 1:1 scheduled? The why, however, is universal: be-cause we care. At Berry, each student within the Bonner Program will meet with a member of the Bonner staff at least once per semester (in addition to other members of the Berry and Rome community). This workshop aims to highlight the 1:1 sessions that have shown success at Berry College within the Bonner Scholars Program, while sharing the opportunity for collaboration with other institutions on what has worked (or even what hasn't).

1. 1:1 101
Michael Zirkel
Berry College | Bonner Scholars Program Coordinator

2. • 1:1 meetings at Berry College
• On and off campus at all levels
• Common threads
• What works for us
• Materials used
• Campus resources utilized
• Pre and post meeting
• Group discussion

3. Program Demographics Disclaimer
• Berry College is a Scholar program
• 2 full time staff (Director and Coordinator)
• Program of 80 students (20 per class) at full capacity
• Institution is just under 2,000
• Our office reports to the Associate Provost & Dean of Academic Services

4. Does each program require 1:1
meetings?

5. Recently, we added language to our
handbook

6. Make sure they
have plenty of
notice

7. Doodle.com
• Easy
• Free
• Customizable
• Accountable

8. Going into the 1:1

9. Freshmen, Junior, and Senior 1:1’s
• Class Schedule
• For some reason, they never remember their classes
• Berry granted us access to our student schedules within the cohort
• CLA(s)
• Are they on track? How can I help? Is the relationship still working?
• Current hours
• According to BWBRS
• Year/semester specific questions
• Grade report/attendance issues

10. Student schedules
give a lot of insight
• Current standing
• Hours
• Current/history
• Class times vs. site hours
• Intentional

11. Frequency:
Once a semester around midterms
We have the most information and the students seem to have their footing

12. Dividing the students
• Director
• Seniors
• ½ Sophomores
• ½ Juniors
• Coordinator
• Freshmen
• ½ Sophomores
• ½ Juniors

13. Common among all 1:1’s
• How are you? How is life at Berry? How has your semester been?
• A lot of times this is where we discover the student considering a transfer
• Where are you serving this semester and what excites you about your Bonner work?
• What courses are you taking this semester? How are you doing in those courses? Which has
been the most engaging for you?
• A lot of the notes are taken directly on the schedule
• What extracurricular activities are you involved in? What do you enjoy about those activities?
• Are they connecting to the campus? Overinvolved? Surface level?
• Issue Based?
• Reflection?
• Bonner, do you have any questions for me?

14. Freshmen
Fall
• Do you think you will continue at your service site next
semester?
• We place them first semester.
• You are just beginning your college career. What more
would you like to do/gain from your time at Berry?
• How can we help them get connected?
• Do you have any ideas yet for your summer of service?
• Outline SoS a bit here, but it is discusses in greater detail at a
class meeting soon
• Do you plan on studying or serving abroad?
• This is usually very, very surface level for most
• Sometimes it is a real conversation of “wow, I can?!?” or “No,
nursing students can’t their junior year”
• Spring
• A lot of the same questions, but looking back at the previous
semester, they are approached in a different way.
• (In regards to extracurricular activities) What have you
added/subtracted since the fall?
• You are in the second semester of your college career. What
more would you like to do/gain from your time at Berry?
• Have they begun to take advantage of suggestions?
Connected with senior Bonners?
• What are your ideas for your first summer of service?
• At this time, proposals are due so I am usually walking them
through the final steps or explaining why/why not.
• Do you plan on studying or serving abroad? If so, tell me more.
• Have they connected with our IP office?

15. Juniors
• Similar to the freshmen in that similar questions from fall to spring, but making sure to circle back and tie up loose ends or get updates
• Preparation for senior year? On track to graduate?
• Are summer classes needed? Reasonable amount of credit hours?
• You’re halfway through your college career. What more would you like to do/gain from your time at Berry?
• In the spring, if they haven’t been able to do research yet, we make every effort to look at their schedule or connect them with a Bonner who
has
• What junior event/fundraising team are you on? Reflection group? Issue Based?
• With the Junior Fundraising Event, we like to hear the steps associated with that. What is working? Not working? What are you learning? How
can you relate these to your site? Career goals?
• What is their level of engagement?
• Have you completed both of your summers of service? If so, what did you do? If not, do you have any ideas yet for your summer of
service?
• Post graduation ideas?
• Reminder of Rising Senior Fund, Career Center, what can we be doing to assist?
• How have they changed? Does this affect your graduation?
• Internships?
• Credit bearing? Is it a summer of service? Could it be? Are you applying for everything you could be?

16. Senior Fall 1:1’s
• What are your semester goals? How can we help? Challenges?
• Are you taking on a leadership role? And/or have you seen any Bonner students you
can begin to train to continue your work? How can you engage them for the
organization as you prepare to transition out?
• Issue Based? Reflection?
• In preparing for your capstone, what is your proudest past Bonner moment? Things you
would have changed?
• What do you think has been your greatest impact on the community?
• Post-graduation plans?
• Classes? Grades? Extracurricular? Social? Physical/Mental health?
• Any support you need from the Bonner office?
• Other things on your mind?

17. Senior Exit Interviews (Spring)
• Can you believe that graduation is less than one month away? How are you feeling?
• What has been your proudest Bonner moment?
• What would you have changed about your Bonner experience?
• Did you make use of the Rising Senior Enrichment Fund? If so, what did you use it for? If not, why not?
• Post-graduation plans?
• We know that Bonners excel both in and out of the classroom and are traditionally very involved in campus life.
What would you say makes a Bonner Scholar’s experiences unique and different from those of the general Berry
student?
• What’s your one take away from your Bonner experience?
• Advice?
• How can we best stay in touch?
• Address?
• Email?
• Phone number?
• End of semester event – Senior Lunch -

18. Sophomores
• Different in that we conduct COP meetings (Connecting Our Passions)
• Student scheduled with Bonner staff, Academic Advisor, and Site Supervisor
• Last about an hour and take place both fall and spring semester
• The idea is to make connections between what the student is doing at their
Bonner site and in the classroom
• Research opportunities
• ACE course designation
• Further development at the site
• Community Fund opportunity

19. COP questions
• How might you expand your current role/responsibilities at your site placement?
• Do you feel that any of your courses this semester have provided you with additional context or
knowledge enhancing your Bonner placement?
• Can you tell your faculty member and site supervisor about your Issue Based team? What have you done
so far, and what have you learned from it?
• You are three/four semesters into your college career. What more would you like to do/gain from your time
at Berry? What are ways that the people in this meeting can assist you in doing these?
• You have a unique opportunity as a Bonner to serve abroad in the summer. Many students find this time
transformative. Have you already participated in a summer of service? If so, what did you do? Do you
have any ideas yet for summer of service?
• (To site supervisor and academic mentor) Do you have any additional questions for the student?

20. Other 1:1’s

21. Check In’s
• Conducted with the Bonner student and Site Supervisor together
• Turned in at 90 hour checkpoint
• Student is expected to complete one for each CLA both fall and spring
semester
• These show both student and site growth, satisfaction, and performance
• I read them and follow up
• Are there concerns? Noteworthy moments?

23. Issue Based 1:1’s
• Okay, so 1:1’s is not the correct term here because it is 2:2
• Coordinator, Senior Intern (BLT Facilitator) and IB team leaders (also members of the
BLT (Bonner Leadership Team)
• Meet fall and spring
• Near panel (fall) and service plunge (spring)
• They have a team of 8-12 Bonners working together on a topic, so a couple of
years ago we added this meeting to the agenda
• Be proactive instead of reactive with the leaders in working with peers
• Assist with planning
• Provide a soundboard

24. Issue Based

25. Reflection 1:1’s
• Again… 1:1 isn’t correct here because it is 2:2
• Coordinator, Senior Intern, and 2 Bonner students
• Not necessarily members of leadership team, but they want a leadership role in
Bonner
• We found these to be needed as we were providing a training in the
beginning of the year, but not checking in with them throughout the year
• Meet near their second scheduled reflection meeting
• Reflection leaders are responsible for planning and executing 3 meetings
each semester

26. Reflection 1:1’s
• To be honest… These are new!
• We are working on questions to continue to ask
• As of now, the most beneficial:
• Review first meeting (occurred after the initial training)
• Positive/Delta
• Review next 2 agendas
• How can we apply what we learned from the first meeting to the next 2
• Sometimes it is a simple solution (the space isn’t conducive) but when we didn’t
have these meetings, we didn’t find out until it was too late

27. Impromptu 1:1
• With all of these mandatory meetings, it makes the unplanned ones easier

• The 1:1’s sheets become a really good reference!
• I always remind: there are some things I must report
• I think they appreciate that (sometimes, that’s why they come to us)
• We have a good rapport with most of our students
• Open door policy, but with clear boundaries
• Hours of operation, mandated reporter, etc.

28. Know your resources
• Career Center
• Especially for the seniors
• Midterm grade reports
• Are they passing? Attending class?
• Do you have access to these? Can you have access?
• Having the tutoring schedule ready
• Counseling Center
• As well as what they offer
• Off campus resources as well
• Sometimes an on campus resource is too close to home
• Walking through a process with them
• Outlook, scheduling with your Academic Services Team

29. Post 1:1
• Has the student met with the International Programs Office to finalize their
study abroad?
• Did the Issue Based Team change their method of research?
• Has _____________ reached out to the counseling center? How did it go?
• Did I fill out a student alert form?

30. • Light Blue
• If your institution/program requires 1:1’s
• When?
• Fall, spring, once a year
• Yellow
• Something that has really worked with 1:1’s at your institution/program
• Dark Blue
• Something that didn’t work
• Why?
• Pink
• 1:1’s would be better if…