National Fellow Cameos, Student Development, & Community PartnershipsBonner Foundation
Presentation from the 2015 Fall Bonner Directors' Meeting. This presentation include Cameos from National Bonner Fellows, and information shared at All Groups from Student Development and Community Partnerships.
National Fellow Cameos, Student Development, & Community PartnershipsBonner Foundation
Presentation from the 2015 Fall Bonner Directors' Meeting. This presentation include Cameos from National Bonner Fellows, and information shared at All Groups from Student Development and Community Partnerships.
These are some of the resources that were shared at the Bonner Foundation's High-Impact Initiative Planning Retreat (March 2014) - "Civic Scholars: Engaged Campuses", held at Allegheny College. Several types of strategies and approaches for ensuring that campus culture, policies, and practices support deep community engagement and public scholarship were shared.
Staffing Your Program: 2016 Bonner New Directors MeetingBonner Foundation
This presentation, from the Bonner Foundation's 2016 New Directors Meeting, focuses on the roles of directors, coordinators, student leaders, and other staff. It offers examples of staffing levels for start-up and established programs.
Campus-Wide Collaboration: 2016 Bonner New Directors MeetingBonner Foundation
This presentation, part of the Bonner Foundation's 2016 New Directors Meeting, addresses the broader goals and strategies for campus-wide engagement. It provides examples of how the Bonner Program can foster and leverage collaboration with multiple departments and divisions, including Student and Academic Affairs, Career Services, Multicultural Life, Study Abroad, and others.
Community Partnerships: 2016 Bonner New Directors MeetingBonner Foundation
This presentation from the Bonner Foundation's 2016 New Directors Meeting delves into the strategy for building community partnerships and positions for students. It addresses how students can engage in deep, sustained roles that build the capacity of the nonprofit, government, and school partners. It addresses planning and management roles of staff as well.
Developing Students: 2016 Bonner New Directors MeetingBonner Foundation
This presentation from the Bonner Foundation's 2016 New Directors Meeting introduces the student development model in more depth. It covers frameworks and how to create a developmental, sequential educational experience using meetings, training, and reflection. It talks about student learning outcomes as well.
Cohort Learning Communities: 2016 Bonner New Directors MeetingBonner Foundation
This presentation, from the Bonner Foundation's 2016 New Directors Meeting, provides an overview of the current cohort learning communities. These are special initiatives open to campus teams in the network, which will provide opportunities for sharing and learning across campuses on topics like faculty engagement, campus-wide student engagement, signature work, college access, food security, and more.
These are some of the resources that were shared at the Bonner Foundation's High-Impact Initiative Planning Retreat (March 2014) - "Civic Scholars: Engaged Campuses", held at Allegheny College. Several types of strategies and approaches for ensuring that campus culture, policies, and practices support deep community engagement and public scholarship were shared.
Staffing Your Program: 2016 Bonner New Directors MeetingBonner Foundation
This presentation, from the Bonner Foundation's 2016 New Directors Meeting, focuses on the roles of directors, coordinators, student leaders, and other staff. It offers examples of staffing levels for start-up and established programs.
Campus-Wide Collaboration: 2016 Bonner New Directors MeetingBonner Foundation
This presentation, part of the Bonner Foundation's 2016 New Directors Meeting, addresses the broader goals and strategies for campus-wide engagement. It provides examples of how the Bonner Program can foster and leverage collaboration with multiple departments and divisions, including Student and Academic Affairs, Career Services, Multicultural Life, Study Abroad, and others.
Community Partnerships: 2016 Bonner New Directors MeetingBonner Foundation
This presentation from the Bonner Foundation's 2016 New Directors Meeting delves into the strategy for building community partnerships and positions for students. It addresses how students can engage in deep, sustained roles that build the capacity of the nonprofit, government, and school partners. It addresses planning and management roles of staff as well.
Developing Students: 2016 Bonner New Directors MeetingBonner Foundation
This presentation from the Bonner Foundation's 2016 New Directors Meeting introduces the student development model in more depth. It covers frameworks and how to create a developmental, sequential educational experience using meetings, training, and reflection. It talks about student learning outcomes as well.
Cohort Learning Communities: 2016 Bonner New Directors MeetingBonner Foundation
This presentation, from the Bonner Foundation's 2016 New Directors Meeting, provides an overview of the current cohort learning communities. These are special initiatives open to campus teams in the network, which will provide opportunities for sharing and learning across campuses on topics like faculty engagement, campus-wide student engagement, signature work, college access, food security, and more.
Hayat e tayyaba main pir kay din ki ahmiyat by shahnaz kausarMuhammad Tariq
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Advancing Team-Based Care:Dissolving the Walls: Clinic Community ConnectionsCHC Connecticut
This final webinar of the Transforming Teams series addressed the ways innovative practices keep connected to their communities by offering non-medical services that benefit patients, linking to quality community resources, and acting as advocates in their communities for resources and programs that may be needed.
This webinar was presented Jun 2, 2016 3:00 PM Eastern Time
Supporting Students’ Civic Agency, Leadership, Well-Being, and Academic Succe...Bonner Foundation
This presentation captures evidence-based practices for campus programs that connect support for diverse, low-income students access and attainment with intentional co-curricular and curricular experiences in community engaged learning. This session was presented by the Bonner Foundation at the 2021 AAC&U Conference on Diversity, Equity, and Student Success by Ariane Hoy, Vice President; Arthur Tartee Jr., Alumni Network Manager; and Rachayita Shah, Community-Engaged Scholarship Director.
This workshop is designed for school districts, medical providers, and community agencies interested in providing services on school campuses or opening school-based health centers. The focus of this workshop will be planning stages, partnership building, needs assessments, SBHC principles, consent/confidentiality, establishing MOUs, and best practices of school integration and building a community of care.
Learn about current trends and best practices in alcohol and other drug screening, brief interventions, and treatment for adolescents accessing services in SBHCs. Strategize with colleagues about opportunities for collaboration with your school administration for creating AOD policies for alternatives for suspension and hear from leading experts in the field on current AOD prevention strategies. Additionally, learn from experts on how to leverage Prop 64 dollars locally to do this important work.
Community-Campus engagement is offered and encouraged in many higher education organizations. This study from Donna Jean Forster-Gill and Tom Cooper seeks to analyze these programs and explore ways to maximize their usefulness to the non-profit community organizations which they assist.
www.vibrantcommunities.ca
www.thecommuntityfirst.org
Building and evaluating a community-based, immersion rural health experienceruralxchange
A presentation at the 37th Annual Rural Health Conference by:
- Michael Glasser, PhD, University of Illinois College of Medicine, National Center for Rural Health Professions Evaluation and Research assistant dean
- Kelli Hill, Hamilton Memorial Hospital SEIgrow coordinator
- Martin MacDowell, DrPH, University of Illinois National Center for Rural Health Professions associate professor; Health Professions Education associate director
- Vicki Weidenbacher-Hoper, University of Illinois National Center for Rural Health Professions assistant director
Community Perceptions of the Social Accountability of health professionals in...Godfrey Esoh
Oral Presentation at the 2016 Conference of the South African Association of Health Educationists (SAAHE) in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. By Esoh Godfrey Nji
As part of National Careers Week 2021, the NCSEHE hosted a virtual event on 21 May, showcasing major NCSEHE-commissioned research on key influencers and careers advice for equity students.
More info: https://www.ncsehe.edu.au/careers-week-webinar-careers-student-equity/
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In this session, we’ll share ways schools are managing their Bonner Program and campus-wide center through workflows that use project management software to streamline operations and provide more effective and comprehensive information to stakeholders.
In this session, we’ll delve into the ways that institutions have been engaging faculty, creating courses and pathways, and working to build sustained infrastructure for civic learning and community engagement.
In this session, we’ll explore how to create cohort communities for students to explore their career interests and how civic and community engagement, in and outside of class, prepares them for post-graduate work.
Best Practices - Building a Coalition of Student-Led Service Projects.pdfBonner Foundation
In this session, we’ll share a core strategy for developing and supporting student leadership of community service by building a coalition (supported by your center) with representatives of student-led service projects, clubs, programs across the campus.
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In this session, we’ll be able to share how we are building and managing effective community partnerships and projects. Through this process, participants can identify their strengths, opportunities, future aspirations, and resource needs.
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This workshop is well-suited for folks who care deeply about institutionalizing community engagement and expanding access to high-impact practices. Come ready to learn about how the Stetson Bonner Program learned from a 2023 Institutional Research & Effectiveness study that the most successful retention and graduation program at Stetson is our Bonner Program – more than any academic program, co-curricular program, athletic program, Greek program, or other explicit retention initiatives. You’ll hear about how we leveraged this information to create more Bonner-like programs. You’ll leave with an understanding of how to analyze your campus' data on first-time-in-college (FTIC) student retention, and how that data can help you advocate for expanding community engagement initiatives as an effective driver of retention.
This session aims promote learning and exchange of ideas on
how we can help students all across campus pursue careers
with purpose and meaning, especially ones that make the world
a better place. The session will engage students in a dialogue
about career goals, academic study, service experience, career
support, and group discussions based on career interests.
This opening session sets the stage for a dynamic and informative
conference focused on driving positive social change. We'll be
inspired and rooted in a sense of place by President Floyd and our
student speakers then dive into two frameworks focused on
equipping individuals to be change agents in their communities.
Participants can expect to gain valuable insights, engage in
thought-provoking discussions and be inspired by the stories of
those who work towards moving the metaphorical mountains of
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This is What Democracy Looks Like Powerbuilding -- Cali VanCleveBonner Foundation
Community organizing has always played a prominent role in the nonprofit world. But what about long-term, sustainable activism work? Power building is a newer sect of community organizing in which people can organize around a certain issue creating power within targeted communities. The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) and its 501(c)(4) TIRRC Votes has created a movement across the state, and they build power within our immigrant and refugee communities through voter engagement and services such as legal aid, educational resources, etc. It is vital to recognize the diverse forms in which we can organize around election cycles beyond simply registering people to vote. If you're interested in either immigrant and refugee rights, voter engagement, or unconventional means of organizing, this would be the place for you!
Are you aspiring to build an exciting career on the global stage? Do you dream of working across borders, cultures, and continents? In an increasingly interconnected world, an international career offers unparalleled opportunities for personal and professional growth. Join us to discuss how you can leverage your Bonner experience in a global context and to explore a wide array of international opportunities.
Prioritizing Bonner How to Support the Student Journey (1).pptxBonner Foundation
This workshop focuses on how to support students as they go through their undergraduate programs not only in the Bonner Program but in their academic and personal lives as well. Students experience a lot of changes and stress during the transitions of college, and we will be discussing some structures and strategies to support them to grow into accountable leaders while still prioritizing their wellbeing.
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Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
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Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
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• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
1. Connecting Bonner with Research
and Capstones
April Backus, Siena College; Marisa Charley, Washington &
Lee University; and Ariane Hoy, Bonner Foundation
2. • Goals
• Introductions
• Washington & Lee: Research Component
• Siena College: Capstone Component
• Discussion of Common Practices and
Challenges
• Planning Time
What We’ll
Cover
3. • Delve into the stages, steps, and “molding” that
programs take to link research and course-
based capstones to Bonner
• Explore how to gradually and intentionally
build capacity and pathways
• Understand how staff oversight and
management can support and empower
• Share common elements (i.e., best practices) &
challenges - & work on strategies
6. The Big Picture
• Wanted to create impactful
capstone project for students AND
partners
• Bonner situated in Shepherd
Program, Academic Affairs
•Position oversees CARA and
Bonner
• 10 Students, 7 Partners
7. Link to developmental experience...
• Introduced during
recruitment
• Developmental direction
through class meetings and
one-on-ones
• Junior year panel and meeting
with VISTA; some students
begin work
• Summer Project Proposal
8. Steps and Stages
• Evaluation of capacity on and off campus
• Use of VISTA Member
• Started with option, evolved into requirement
9. for Success
• Community partner interest
•Student conversations with supervisors
•Community Partner Focus Group
• Staff member, full-time VISTA member got
programming off the ground
• Professors from various disciplines
supporting CBR work
10. • Lack of faculty incentive- who can
participate?
• New level of partnership development
• Moving from independent study to course
integration
11. • Building momentum year-to-year
• Explore possibilities around diffusing
responsibility and support
• Explore faculty and partner incentives
Overcoming
13. The Big Picture
•Culmination of the Bonner experience,
linked to academic and career interests
•Center for Academic Community Engagement-
Academic Affairs
•10 students/10 partners/10 faculty members
•2015-2016 (8 students/faculty/partners)
14. Link to developmental experience...
• Conversation begins day one during
recruitment of high school seniors
• Continuous conversation happens
during one on ones each year
• Linked to Certificate in Community
Development
15. Steps and Stages
• Evaluation of student interests, passions,
career goals and partner needs
• Partners are trained to expect students to
complete capstone in senior year- partners as
co-educators conversation
• Students do the work in terms of making asks
with example emails, pitches and questions
16. for Success
• Center staff are trained to identify
‘trigger’ points during one on ones to
embark on research topic
conversation
• Student accountability- honors
structure
• Clearly articulated faculty mentor role &
faculty mentor check ins
17. • Institution understands as a part of
COMD capstone (academic
requirement)
• Explanation/introduction as similar
to honors
• Partners understand as benefiting to
their research/organizational needs
18. • Introduction to the students- why? what
is in it for them?
• Engaging tenured faculty-avoiding
campus politics
• Aligning student research interests with
faculty research interests and partner
issue area
Overcoming
19. Group Work...
• What are the
common practices
you notice? Let’s go
deeper...
• What are the
common challenges?
Let’s solve these...
20. Tips...
• Introduce during recruitment; build
each year
• Link with advising
• Ongoing planning with partners
• Intentional preparation
• Can include wide array of faculty
• Paper or project required
21. Fighting for Equality:
The Bolivian Health Care System
Methodology
This research will be using a qualitative method. The
qualitative method used is ethnographic observation
data from a Bolivian clinical facility that had been
conducted during the summer of 2014. The data was
observed and collected on the medical and health
system in Bolivia. This ethnographic data was collected
in a rural medical setting where I was interning for 5
weeks with the supervision of an experienced doctor,
two intern nurses and one registered experienced nurse
in the department of La Paz. The data collected was
gathered from observations made in the clinic,
interactions of patients and doctor or nurse contact
and community visits.
1. History
Bolivia is known as the second poorest country in
Latin America. Bolivia began reforming the health care
system in the 1990s in order to better serve its
population (WHO 2006). Since 1996, the Bolivian
health system began the process of decentralizing
itself and implemented national systems that cover
health for children, the elderly, as well as maternal
health (WHO 2006). The total population as, of 2008,
was 10,027,600 (Ledo & Soria 2011). At the time, there
were about 5.3 million people in Bolivia living in
poverty.
The poor, the elderly, and the indigenous groups in
Bolivia are less likely to use the system and are also
more likely to have a catastrophic medical expense than
the rest of the population (WHO 2006). There is very
large disparity between the poor and the wealthy in
regards to accessing and receiving quality care for more
specialized health services.
Outside of the national insurance for children and
mothers, about 2,900,000 million people in the country
were under the national Social Security health plan in
2009 (Lado & Soria 2011). Under the Social Security
plan, only those that are employed are eligible for to
receive any benefits (WHO 2006). Another 1,452,273
million people in Bolivia are covered under some other
form of private insurance in the country (Lado & Soria
2011). Bolivia continues to have over 5,948,264
millions of people have no access to insurance plans in
the country.
Findings and Analysis
Having the opportunity to learn alongside other health
workers and interact with patients from all walks of life, I
was able to observe and process the impact the healthcare
system has on the patients living in the local level. Patients
were affected by three major factors: the doctor/patient
relationship, accessibility, and culture sensitivity.
The clinic was fairly equipped to treat moderate cases and
take care of mothers who were ready to give birth. Rural
areas attempted to work with supplies they received from
the government. The clinic served multiple towns that
were moderately distanced from the clinic making it
difficult for patients to visit the clinic. Patients had little to
no reliable transportations.
Health workers were limited in the community. Many of
the health workers were interns and, after completion of
their internship, eventually moved to the city for work.
This was a problem among rural communities and older
patients. The community valued trust, and once they
trusted doctors and interns in the clinic, many health
workers moved away into the cities.
Health workers in rural communities were more sensitive
to different cultures. Large populations of rural patients in
the Carmen Pampa area identified as members of a
indigenous group. The indigenous group had their own
language and alternative medicine. Health staff in the rural
clinic were more accepting and did not disrespect
indigenous population by comparing them to their urban
counterparts.
The Rural Perspective on Accessibility, Culture, Doctor and Patient
Relationship
Siena College Bonner Service Leader Senior Capstone
By: Adderlin Taveras
Faculty Mentor: Duane Matcha, Ph.D
Abstract
This capstone project is a culmination of
my summer serving as a Global Service
Intern in Carmen Pampa, Bolivia. During
my time as an intern, I had the opportunity
to explore and understand the the Bolivian
health care system at a local rural level.
This project outlines the history of the
system and how it has changed over time.
Moreover, it examines how the system
impacts accessibility, patient and doctor
relationship and cultural barriers. The
project also begins efforts to improve the
process for individuals going into the
system as a healthcare workers in the
community.
Recommendations
Having received the opportunity to examine the health system in the local level from
both critical and sociological lenses, I make the following recommendations to take into
consideration in order to improve rural health system:
• More residents in rural communities should be trained to become health workers
in order to improve quality, trust and quantity of health worker willing to stay in
the community.
• Increase funding to rural communities in order to provide more care to patients.
• Accessibility to roads and transportation must be improved.
• Understand and integrate patients cultural values and traditions with westernize
medicine in order improve relationships between health care workers and
patients.
22. Bridging the Gap:
How Undergraduates Can Aid Nonprofits in the Effective Utilization of Public Policy
Steps to Success
Siena College Bonner Service Leader Senior Capstone
By: Ann Ward
Faculty Mentors: Laurie Naranch Ph.D. Duane Matcha Ph.D. & Mathew Johnson Ph.D.
As the relationship between public policy and nonprofit
organizations gravitates closer to the forefront of many
academic discussions, it is increasingly apparent that already
strapped nonprofits do not currently have the capacity to
partake in the process without outside help. A collaboration
among these nonprofits, undergraduate researchers, and
universities can be a solution to this problem. While the
relationship between nonprofits and undergraduate policy
researchers must be strengthened and more effective support
systems need to be built, both parties have already begun
playing a role in the policy sphere. Through interviews and
assessment of undergraduate programs- The Bonner
Foundation and Roosevelt Institute’s Campus Network- it
becomes clear that in order for this relationship to be
effectively utilized, a few steps must be taken. After evaluating
and assessing two programs that facilitate this process, it is
clear that undergraduate policy research and nonprofits can
come together to form a mutually beneficial pairing when
both partners have the structural supports to develop a
sustainable policy understanding.
1. It is vital to give the students an understanding of the
complexities of the policy sphere by using various tools, like
policy field mapping and analysis, to clarify who is involved in
each individual policy field. It is also important to find
methods of incentivizing students to participate in this type of
research.
In 2004, The Roosevelt Institute started a program titled Campus
Networks with the aim of teaching students how to use public policy
as a tool for community change. In order to tackle the challenge of
educating undergraduate students on some complex policy issues, a
curriculum was developed called Roosevelt|Thinks, which introduces
students to the basics of policy development and implementation.
This step is instrumental to the success of the program, creating both
student buy in and simplifying the complexities of the policy process.
Their vision statement is based off of the understanding that the
policy process, or the way the rules that govern our lives develop,
becomes a powerful tool for young people to develop, advance, and
advocate for sustainable solutions that take on some of the most
intractable problems.
A program that is taking steps to encourage undergraduate policy
research in order to increase nonprofits use of public policy is the
Bonner Foundation. Currently, there is a website that is an offshoot
project from the Bonner Foundation called PolicyOptions that
creates a space for this undergraduate involvement in public policy.
PolicyOptions is a website where nonprofit organizations can go to
get the most up to date policy news among various other useful
pieces of information. Their mission is to establish a network of local
"community information hubs" that will make policy information,
news, and research available on websites, weekly email news digests,
and policy analysis. The local PolicyOptions.org bureaus feature local
PolicyOptions Issue Briefs on topics of local interest that draw upon
policies and program models
2. Developing a network for students to utilize and connect
with each other through the policy process is also a key factor
in the successful participation of undergraduate students in
policy research.
3.Understanding the specific needs of the nonprofit and the
community also plays a critical role in ensuring that the
relationship remains mutually beneficial and reciprocal.
Campus Network
Abstract
PolicyOptions
(Sandfort and Stone 2009)