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Location: Meadville, PA

Enrollment: 2,100

 

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

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Name of Campus-Wide Center: Allegheny College Center for Experiential Learning (ACCEL)

Relevant website: http://www.allegheny.edu/accel/

 

Type of Program: Bonner Leaders and Bonner Scholars

Year Began: 1997

Bonner Program website: 

http://www.allegheny.edu/accel/commservice/service/programs.php

 

Number of Bonner Scholars and Bonner Leaders: 35

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: 25

Active in Learn & Serve CBR:

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor:  

 

KEY CONTACTS

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President: James Mullen

Center Director: David Roncolato

Bonner Director: Jamie Williams (jwilliam@allegheny.edu)

Bonner Senior Intern(s): Erin Gaskill (Summer 09 Senior Intern), Jordan Brooks and Marisa Frey

Bonner Congress Representatives: Ashley Miller and Angel Linnan

 

Here's Arthur, De, Kirsten, Zack and Amon at the 2008 Bonner Congress at West Virginia Wesleyan! 

 

MORE ABOUT US (our partners, trips, structure, best or unique practices)

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The 2008-2009 Allegheny Bonner community has invited new members to our community and sent off our first class of graduating Bonner Scholars.  In celebrating their achievements and wisdom to our community, we are looking forward to a year of growth and deepening Community Partnerships.  

The Allegheny Bonner program continues to embrace our combination of Bonner Scholars and Leaders to create a multiyear and focused presence with community agencies.  Bonners’ continued partnership with community agencies spans at least one summer and a school year to a four year placement allowing for continuous relationship and project development. The added intentional gathering and planning with other Allegheny Service-Leader Programs has fostered development of student facilitated community collaboration.  These conversations have furthered our Bonner Program’s capacity building efforts to support and grow the larger Allegheny Service Movement.  We are looking forward to implementing creative strategies to meet unique, local needs.

 

2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

• 2009 Annual Report

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2008 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

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Click here to complete wiki-based portion of Annual Report. 

 

Student Leadership Planning:

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Click here for Congress Leadership Plans:

Allegheny Congress Action Planning

 

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

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Serve 2.0

• Staff Point Person for project:  Jamie Williams, jamie.williams@allegheny.edu; may want to engage a faculty to do social networking, etc.
• Student Point Person for project:  Have not done this yet, project for this first meeting.
• Planning to submit mini-grant proposal:  maybe-but probably not due to workload, priorities, etc.
• Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status:  created in Nov?, utilizing campus profiles when they need it-event planning, have used it to schedule one-on-ones
• Participating in Bonner Video Project:  maybe, it is a priority for Jamie to make happen this semester
• • Have also tried to encourage vlogs
  • Student BVL (Bonner Video Liaison) contact info posted on link: Bonner Video Liaisons
    • Student has not yet been identified yet, will try to get this together
  • Need a Flip Cam? (we can provide one per campus): yes, waiting for the camera at the moment
• See useful links:  Serve 2.0 Resource Wiki   |   Mini-Grant RFP

 

BWBRS

• Using BWBRS 3.0: mostly-there may be two students who have done all their December hours through 2.9; the students have all seen it.
• Need for additional training:  not at this time
• See useful links:  BWBRS 3.0 Help Guide

 

Bonner AmeriCorps

• Please list the contact information of the staff and student interns who manage your AmeriCorps Paperwork:
  • Note:  due to the audit and the transition to BWBRS 3, all current AmeriCorps Managers will be scheduled for an AmeriCorps Management Training for 2009 within the first few weeks of the semester. Please schedule this phone call with your Foundation Program Associate as soon as possible.
  • Jamie Williams, jwilliams@allegheny.edu
  • Dave Roncolato, droncola@allegheny.edu
  • Jessie Badach, badachj@allegheny.edu
• Spring Enrollments 2009:  Please complete this survey right away: AmeriCorps Survey
  • will fill out,  won't need slots
• Please note: This survey is for the Spring semester slots only. It does not matter if your campus had previously requested slots and have "left overs." Please fill out this survey to specify how many members your campus will enroll this semester. If you do not want slots, they should fill it in with zeroes. We will be sending out a Summer and Fall request as well, so this is only for this semester. 

 

Issue-Based Research

• What issue(s) working group will your campus focus on (in preparation for SLI 2009)? 
  • Criminal Justice and Violence Prevention
  • Homelessness and Hunger
• Specific topic for issue brief (see Research Guide for help to work with partner in defining):  
  • specific issue brief topic (define by February)
• Lead contact people for project (staff and/or students, community partner agency):
  • names, titles, phone numbers, emails
• See useful links:  PolicyOptions Wiki   |  Campus Implementation Guide

 

Campus Support Plans

Know we are here as a resource to you! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! It's really coming along!