bonner vision & history

Bonner Program Vision & Model

Welcome to New Members of the Bonner Community

Berea pilot | + 22 schools in next two years

1990 1995 2000 2005 2010

Bonner Through The Years

Bonner Program’s Founding Mission

Access to Education, Opportunity to Serve

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% of TOTAL 40% 49% 59% 67% 74% 79% 85% 89% 91% 93% 94% 94% 95% 96% 96% 97% 97% 97% 97% 98% 100%

BONNER SCHOLAR PROGRAMESTIMATED FAMILY CONTRIBUTION (EFCO) DISTRIBUTION

Class of 2009 - 2015Bonner Scholars: 75% < $5,000 EFC

Campus Change

Individuals & Places

Develop & engage students’ knowledge,

skills, values, and collective action.

Bonner Transformation Goals

Expectation

Exploration

Experience

Example

Expertise

Student Development: The Five E’s


Mobilize students, faculty, staff, & community members to support individuals & places.

Bonner Transformation GoalsCommunity Change

✴Engage every week, every semester

✴Develop and grow as an agent of change

✴Serve legitimate needs and make an impact

✴Connect service and studies, and connect people

✴Accomplish inspiring projects!

✴Graduate and stay involved

What does a Bonner do?

★Four years are significant

★Proven skill learning (developmental model)

★Commitment to social justice

★Dialogue across difference

★Power of structured and unstructured reflection

★The importance of mentors

★Civic-minded professionals

Proven Program Impact on Students

Voices from Bonners

Develop and integrate community engaged learning courses &

programs.

Programs


Campus ChangeBonner Transformation Goals


1990 1995 2000 2005 2010

“End of start-up” | 4 year model | campus-wideBonner Leaders (FWS + AmeriCorps)Community-Based Research funding (L&S)


Community-Based ResearchTable of Contents

Introduction ............................................................ 1

Section 1: What is CBR and Why Conduct It? ................3

Community-Based Research: The Basics ...................................... 5Why Engage in CBR? .................................................................... 6Research with Undergraduates ..................................................... 7The Audience for This Handbook ................................................. 7How Is This Book Written? .......................................................... 8

Section 2: Supporting Community-Based Research: The Process .........................................................9

Developing and Maintaining Community Partnerships .............. 11Developing a Research Plan ..........................................................17Community-Based Research Methodology

and Data Analysis ................................................................. 27Communicating Findings ............................................................. 39The Takeaway:

CBR’s Value to Students and the Community ...................43

Section 3: Institutionalizing CBR ...............................49

Building the CBR Community: Rewards and Supports .............51Items for Your CBR Budget ......................................................... 59Funding for CBR ..........................................................................62

References ............................................................64

Acknowledgements ................................................. 66

Programs


Train & support leaders who develop & manage evidence-based programs and projects.



1990 1995 2000 2005 2010

“End of start-up” | 4 year model | campus-wideBonner Leaders (FWS + AmeriCorps)

Common Commitments | Skills

Community-Based Research funding (L&S)


Diversity Respect the many different dimensions of diversity in

our public lives.

Civic Engagement

Participate intentionally as a citizen in the democratic process, actively engaging in public policy

and direct service.

Community Building

Establish and sustain a vibrant community of place, personal relationships and

common interests.

Social Justice Advocate for fairness, impartiality and equality while addressing systemic social

and environmental issues.

International Perspective: Develop international understanding

that enables Bonners to participate successfully in a global society.

Spiritual Exploration Explore personal beliefs while

respecting the spiritual practices of others.

Common Commitments


1990 1995 2000 2005 2010




Bonner Cornerstones


Bonner Cornerstones

First Year Trip - new context for service & learning (i.e., poverty in campus and distant place)

Orientation - pre-college immersion provides a sense of community and a foundation for success

Second Year Exchange - the sense of a national movement and connections across campuses

Third Year Leadership - an opportunity to apply initiative on a project (i.e., international trip, campus-wide event, community event)

Capstones and Senior Presentations- an opportunity to integrative thinking and doing - at a site and often connected to student’s coursework

Organizations

Build campus center that leads effort to make

place-based community engagement deep, pervasive, integrated & developmental.

Programs




1990 1995 2000 2005 2010



Academic Journey (FIPSE)


Bonner Cornerstones

Knowledge Areas


Civic Engagement at the Center

• Academic Journey !• Pillars: ✓ Integrated✓ Intense✓Multi-Year✓Developmental/

Sequential!

✓Politics/Public Policy✓Poverty✓Global

Organizations

Partner in capacity-building for organizations to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and resources.

Programs



Systems

Partner in capacity-building for collaboratives working to achieve measurable community and systemic change.

Organizations

Programs




1990 1995 2000 2005 2010




Serve 2.0


Bonner Cornerstones

Knowledge Areas

PolicyOptions.org


✦ National network of local community information hubs

✦ 20 bureaus & growing

PolicyOptions.org


1990 1995 2000 2005 2010




Serve 2.0Impact Focus


Bonner Cornerstones

Knowledge AreasPolicyOptions


Systems

Leverage Bonner Network as a community of best

practice, and resource for higher education locally and

nationally

Organizations

Programs



✦Yield tool - access and diversity

✦Builds an infrastructure to engage every week, every semester

✦Provides a developmental, multi-year program model

✦Shifts how institutions sustain partnerships to make an impact

✦Connects co-curricular and curricular pathways

✦Promotes graduation and grades

✦Builds institution’s reputation

Why Does The Bonner Program Matter?

CommunityCampusSystems

Leverage Bonner Network as a community of best practice,

and resource for higher education locally and nationally

Partner in capacity-building for collaboratives working to achieve measurable community and systemic change.

Organizations

Build campus center that leads effort to make

place-based community engagement deep, pervasive, integrated & developmental.

Partner in capacity-building for organizations to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and resources.

Programs

Develop and integrate community engaged learning

courses & programs.

Train & support leaders who develop & manage evidence-based programs and projects.


Develop & engage students’ knowledge, skills, values, and

collective action.

Mobilize students, faculty, staff, & community members to support individuals & places.

Bonner Transformation Goals

TransformationSystems

Organizations

Programs


Transformation

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” $

Robert Francis Kennedy

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