1. The Bonner Program
The Road Ahead and Year at a Glance

2. What We’ll Cover
• Who is a Bonner?
• What does a Bonner do?
• Why does the Bonner Program matter?
• What do you do, as a director or coordinator?
• Your Year at a Glance

3. Who Is A Bonner?
• Student with financial
need (increasing
college access)
• Ethic and commitment
for service
• Diverse backgrounds
• Engages in a four-year
program

4. What does a
Bonner do?
• 8-10 hours of
community
engagement each
week during
academic year
• Meaningful full-time
internships in
summer

5. What does a
Bonner do?
•Serve unmet,
legitimate human &
environmental
needs through
intensive, long-
term positions

6. What does a
Bonner do?
•Meet rising
expectations,
along a student
developmental
model

7. Summer 2012 Amelia’s Service Experience
Part of Bonner Delegation for first Bonner
Global Village Trip in Belize, piloting Fall 2011-Spring 2012
international curricula Emergency Assistance Interviewer for Crisis
Assistance Ministries, Bonner Congress Rep
Summer 2011 and Bonner Advisory Board
Youth in Arts Program
Assistant in Nicaragua for
Amigos de las America Spring 2011
LEARNWorks Liaison/ Youth
Enrichment Assistant for
Fall 2010
Davidson Community
After-School Academic
Players
Support Assistant at Ada
Jenkins and Guild
Production Assistant for
Davidson Community Summer 2010
Players Community and Enrichment
Leader at Kuneesah
Asanifeya, teaching in
Fall 2009 and Spring Arabic
2010 :
After-School Classroom
Assistant and Mentor at the
Ada Jenkins Center

8. What does a
Bonner do?
• Grow as a citizen
and leader, through
education, training,
& reflection

9. Amelia’s Training Support
Fall 2011
•Service Leader Institute Spring 2012
provides higher level •Class based meetings on topics
training like faith and service,
•Class based meetings on career exploration,
topics like running a Spring 2011
meeting, navigating •Gets involved in special
difficult dialogue, activism, workshop series like
policy and advocacy, and “Environmental Justice
using positive peer and Social Change” and
pressure “The King Legacy”
Fall 2010
•Sophomore Recommitment
event
•Class Based Meetings on topics •Class based meetings on
like commitment to service,
topics like volunteer
justice dialogue, and world
management, grant
hunger
writing, public speaking,
•Joins “Engage for Change” emotional intelligence,
planning committee and
and social change
Bonner Leadership Team
Fall 2009 Spring 2010 :
•First Year Orientation •First Year Trip training,
•Fall Retreat with all Bonners planning, and reflection
•Class Based Meetings on topics •Class based meetings on topics
like BWBRS, effective like ethics, understanding
communication, finding your poverty, and literacy
passion (with third years), and •Gets involved in campus-wide
identity project “Engage for
Change”

10. Just the tip of the iceberg!

11. What does a
Bonner do?
✴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

12. Why Does The Bonner
Program Matter?
✦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

13. Proven Program
Impact on Students
★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 professionalism

14. What do you do?
★Develop and manage
partnerships, positions, &
projects
★Empower students’ (and staff)
development & leadership
★Teach, advise, and coach
★Build connections on campus
(pathways) and off campus
(collaboration)
★Manage people & hold them
accountable
★Build, implement, and expand
programs and centers

15. What Tools Help You
Do This?
✤Frameworks and
developmental models for
students, partners, staff,
and faculty
✤Resources and Best Practices
✤The Bonner Network
✤Foundation Staff
✤Meetings and Networking

16. Expertise
Example
Experience
Exploration
Expectation
The Five E’s

17. Expertise - capstone
projects, research, studies
Example - site and program
leadership
Experience - solid programmatic role -
(Program Assistant)
Exploration - immersions, shadowing, rotations,
resulting in regular placement
Expectation - selection includes an ethic of service
You are the architect!

18. Exemplar - team; leader; -
ongoing capacity building,
academic engagement projects,
or; networking corps
Experience - multiple students with
developmental positions and a team leader;
trainings and meetings; annual plan revision
Emerging - at least three students with
developmental positions and a multi-year partnership plan
Exploratory Partnerships - a few semester positions
or an academic community engagement project
Partner Development

19. The Seasoned Survivors (aka Wizards
5-6 years experience
The Wisdom Seeking Professionals
5-6 years experience
The Confident Professionals
5-6 years experience
The Middle Management
6-8 years experience
The Emerging Professionals
5-6 years experience
The Not So New Kids on the Block
3-4 years experience
The Future
0-2 years experience
Staff Development

20. Your Year at a Glance
Fall Winter
Spring Summer
Planning - site visits,
Mid-Year Retreats -
strategic planning; setting
provide training, visioning, and
launch into 2nd semester
First Year Trip and Cornerstones - often
happen towards end of
your training & meeting
calendar
Second Year Exchange - year
key work on Cornerstone
Site Visits and Check Ins Activities
Orientation - launches - events with partners Celebrations and
Bonner Program before Recruitment and Selection Evaluation - with
school year service partners,
Ongoing work around - identifies next class of graduating class, faculty,
Bonners etc.
First Year Placements academic links - faculty
training and engagement,
- often involve high-impact projects Site Visits and Check Ins Summer Leadership
exploration
- events with partners Institute - big one!
Semester Placements -
Semester Placements get other students into service
- get other students into within a few weeks Academic projects - Manage summer -
courses, high-impact projects, more online training and
service within a few weeks senior capstones reflection
Planning for Summer -
start internship recruitment
Fall Staff and Semester Placements and Reporting and planning
Congress Meetings - Finalize summer - get - close year out and start
get the network together other students into service anew
within a few weeks

21. Fall
Planning - site visits, strategic planning; setting your
training & meeting calendar
Orientation - launches Bonner Program before school year
First Year Placements - often involve exploration
Semester Placements - get other students into service
within a few weeks
Fall Staff and Congress Meetings - get the network
together

22. Winter
Mid-Year Retreats - provide training, visioning, and launch
into 2nd semester
Site Visits and Check Ins - events with partners
Ongoing work around academic links - faculty training and
engagement, high-impact projects
Semester Placements - get other students into service within a
few weeks
Planning for Summer - start internship recruitment

23. Spring
First Year Trip and Second Year Exchange - key work on
Cornerstone Activities
Recruitment and Selection - identifies next class of Bonners
Site Visits and Check Ins - events with partners
Academic projects - courses, high-impact projects, senior
capstones
Semester Placements and Finalize summer - get other students
into service within a few weeks

24. summer
Celebrations and Evaluation - with service partners, graduating
class, faculty, etc.
Cornerstones - trips and events often happen towards end of
year
Summer Leadership Institute - big one!
Manage summer positions - more online training and reflection
Reporting and planning - close year out and start anew

25. Your Year at a Glance
Fall Winter
Spring Summer
Planning - site visits,
Mid-Year Retreats -
strategic planning; setting
provide training, visioning, and
launch into 2nd semester
First Year Trip and Celebrations and
your training & meeting Second Year Exchange - Evaluation - with
calendar key work on Cornerstone service partners,
Activities graduating class, faculty,
Site Visits and Check Ins etc.
Orientation - launches - events with partners
Bonner Program before
school year
Recruitment and Selection Cornerstones - often
Ongoing work around - identifies next class of happen towards end of
Bonners year
First Year Placements academic links - faculty
training and engagement,
- often involve high-impact projects Site Visits and Check Ins Summer Leadership
exploration
- events with partners Institute - big one!
Semester Placements -
Semester Placements get other students into service
- get other students into within a few weeks Academic projects - Manage summer -
courses, high-impact projects, more online training and
service within a few weeks senior capstones reflection
Planning for Summer -
start internship recruitment
Fall Staff and Semester Placements and Reporting and planning
Congress Meetings - Finalize summer - get - close year out and start
get the network together other students into service anew
within a few weeks

26. Things You Do Every Term
Service Work
★ Positions, Community Learning Agreements, and Monitoring - in
person and on BWBRS
Training and Enrichment
★ Class Meetings, Site Meetings, and All Bonner Meetings - the aim is
to have at least one meeting a week
Advising
★ One on One Meetings - between a Bonner and a staff/faculty advisor at
least once each semester
Lead and Manage
★ Planning, Resource Development, Supervision - center and implementing
the program, projects, events, and operations of your
building

27. Administrative/Financial
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Registrar’s list
Reimbursement reports
AmeriCorps (if applicable)
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•
Timelogs
Slot requests
Major
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Community fund reports
Annual Reports
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Service accomplishments
Campus-site agreement for each
partner
Calendar
• Enrichment grants • Campus-Foundation Agreement
Community Partnerships and Student Development/Training,
Managing Service Enrichment and Reflection
• Cultivate committed partners with • Developmental trainings
placements at multiple levels • Orientation
• Students complete CLAs • All Bonner Retreat and Meetings
• Hour log submissions in BWBRS • Cornerstone Activities (First Year Trip,
• Service Accomplishments 2nd Year Exchange, Junior Leadership
• End-semester evaluations and Senior Capstones)
• Update positions & agencies in • Advising and Reflection
BWBRS • Conference opportunities
• Organize First-Year Trip • Student leadership team, Congress
• Summer Service process Reps, and Senior Intern
Participation in Bonner-Sponsored Campus-wide and Other:
Activities • Admissions & Financial Aid collaboration
• Bonner Recruitment and Replacement
• Fall Staff Meeting • Grow a campus-wide culture
• Congress Meeting • Build and manage center
• Summer Leadership Institute • Cultivate academic connections
• High-Impact & PolicyOptions • Website, PR, and Visibility
• Surveys, communication, and • Strategic Plan
special projects