The document outlines a session hosted by Dave Roncolato from Allegheny College and representatives from the Bonner Foundation focused on developing integrated pathways for civic engagement in educational settings. Key approaches include distinguishing between institutional and community-driven agendas while brainstorming needs for professional development and support. The goals involve generating tangible project needs through focus groups, fostering partnerships, and exploring ways to incorporate engaged capstones into curricular experiences.

1. Engaged Signature
Work and Capstones
Part 1: Finding the
Potential for
Integrated Pathways
With Dave Roncolato, Allegheny
College and Ariane Hoy and Ray
Barclay, Bonner Foundation

2. • Consider key approaches to creating these
integrative pathways, including (1) an
institutional or faculty driven agenda and (2) a
community or place-based agenda. These
are not mutually exclusive and may be
thought of along a continuum, but
participants will be exposed to models.
• Brainstorm and discuss what their own
needs in terms of knowledge, professional
development, authority, resources and and
supports to identify and build these pathways

4. Introductions
Where are you and why
are you here?
What is your “bandwith”
today?

5. The Cohort So Far
• A multiyear strategy
• Integration of civic & community engagement
across curriculum (visible, hidden, null)
• Build formal engaged capstones into Bonners’
four-year experiences
• Aspiration/Thought Experiment: what would it
look like if 25% of graduating seniors were able
to do it?

7. Strategies So Far
• Community Partner Focus Groups
• Student Leadership
• Faculty Outreach and building allies
(Reading Group)

8. Learn & Work
Together
• Rethinking our roles and
relationships on and off
campus
• Building true appreciation for
our roles as educators and
the value it has for student
learning
• Leveraging resources and
assets in reciprocal, deep
community partnerships

9. Focus Groups
February March - April May-June
Outcome: Generate tangible project needs from
partners that you can later match with students
and faculty; build systems
Set up
focus
groups
Run 3-4
focus
groups
Translate
into
research
projects
Build
systems &
relationships

10. Focus Groups
“Needs” vs.
“opportunities” vs.
“requests”
Explore how to link
with current Bonners’
positions & capstones
Explore broader CBR,
service-learning, &
faculty engagement
Run focus
groups that
enable
partners to
identify
interests

11. Focus Groups
Ask…

12. Focus Groups
Translate
…

13. Sharing…

14. What could pathways
look like?
• General education pathways
• Research and technology transfer
• Faculty driven at the individual level
• Faculty driven at the departmental level
• Individual community entrepreneurs
• Collaboratives
• City Council/Government initiatives
• Grant funded (Wofford Way to Wellville)

15. A multidimensional
continuum…
Driven by
faculty or
institution
Driven in
partnership
Driven by
community
or place
not mutually exclusive!

16. Examples

17. Examples

18. Examples

19. Examples

20. Conceptual Model

24. Program & Course Mapping

25. Group Dialogue
1. Faculty/Institutional
Perspective
2. Community Partner
Perspective
Choose one to discuss…

26. Group Dialogue
We’ll decide
subgroups
Faculty/
Institutional
Perspective
(Small
Colleges)
Faculty/
Institutional
Perspective
(Larger
Schools)
Community
Perspective
(Small
Towns)
Community
Perspective
(Larger
Cities)
or others…

27. Group Dialogue
1. How would we work with this group on this?
2. As the leaders, what do we know and don’t?
3. What are our questions?
4. What kind of resources do we need?
5. What kind of training, education, and support do
we need?
6. What kind of system, policy, and cultural change
might be needed?
7. How viable or hard does this seem?
Questions…

28. Each group can…
1. Focus on each question.
2. Do what feels right.
3. Don’t worry about it.
4. Generate observations or insights.
Discuss and record…
Please take notes.