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Location: About 5 minutes south of Downtown Minneapolis, MN

 

Enrollment: 3,785 students from 40 countries. Our diverse community includes 21.7% students of color, 1% international students and 39% of our students are lutherans. We also have diveristy in the origins of our students who come from 42 U.S States and 40 different Countries.

 

Another interesting tidbit: 

Augsburg Auggies come from all over the country and the world to live and learn in the city. Augsburg has a lively assortment of cultures, races, identities, religions, and ways of thinking. Though we are from different backgrounds and traditions, our experiences are shaped by our faith and values. We explore our own beliefs while learning about the faith traditions of others.

 

 

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

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Name of Campus-Wide Center: Center for Service, Work, and Learning     

Relevant websites: Augsburg Bonner Leaders Campus Profile

                           Augsburg College Bonner Leaders Wiki

                           Augsburg Campus Kitchen Program

                           Augsburg announces it's Bonner Leader Program!

                           Augsburg's Campus Issue Profile: Hunger and Homelessness

 

 

Type of Program: Bonner Leader

Year Began: 2008

Bonner Program website: http://www.bonner.org/

 

Number of Bonner Leaders: 17 leaders currently, 14 first years and 3 upperclassmen. Fall of 2009 will see the addition of 15 more Bonner students- mostly first years with a few sophomores!

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: No

Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award: No

Active in Learn & Serve CBR: No

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor: No

 

KEY CONTACTS

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President: Dr. Paul Pribbenow

Center Director: Lois Olson  

Bonner Coordinator:  Kristin Farrell  

Bonner Senior Intern(s): Maddie Jensen 

Bonner Congress Representative: Julia Sewell 

 

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

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Augsburg College benefits from its position in the middle of one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Minneapolis. The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is comprised of the largest Somali community in Minnesota, a large student population, many different businesses and two major institutions: the University of Minnesota and the Fairview Hospital.

 

Augsburg reaches out to many of the neighborhoods that surround it. Although many of our partners are across the street and down the block, we also work in the Seward neighborhood, and expand further along Franklin Avenue to the Phillips neighborhood.

 

List of Partners:

        Faith in the City-Personal Finance Center

        Augsburg Fairview Academy

        Employment Action Center

        Minnesota Internship Center                                               All Community Partners - Map

        Volunteers of America

        Project for Pride living (PPL)

        Trinity Lutheran Congregation

        Confederation of Somail Communities - People's Center

        Augsburg's Campus Kitchen

 

The Augsburg Bonner Community Leaders Program is viewed on campus as a successful model to build on the college’s culture of community and civic engagement and bring together existing community service programs to take us to the next level of deepening knowledge, reflection, and authenticity of civic engagement in the community.

 

Highlights of the 2008 Augsburg Bonner Leaders Program:

We are very proud of the inaugural group of students who were recruited for the Bonner Leaders Program in the fall of 2008!!!  The seventeen students selected for the program were largely first-years, with diverse ethnic and geographical backgrounds, and unique experience with community-leadership roles and have established a solid foundation as student leaders on and off campus. The students did an excellent job at making the Bonner Leaders program an exciting new addition to campus life. Here are some highlights of a great first year as Bonner Leaders:

• A First-year service trip to New Orleans in partnership with Campus Ministry- the Bonners commitment to reflection, meaningful service, and creating connections between all students stood out!
• A benefit concert organized by three of our first years to help a childrens organization in Africa- these new to campus students demonstrated their true leadership abilities! Way to go Jasmine Zand, Alix Young, and Katia Iverson!
• An MLK Service Day spent in a homeless shelter.
• Participation in the Bonner Video Project. Cheers to Mallory Carstens and Kate Lewis who earned Augsburg the Service Program Profile Video star award at the Summer Leadership Institute Video showcase! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ORSDadWPLk
• A deep connection to the Campus Kitchen and Community Garden on campus was forged through the Bonner Program. 
• Trainings, reflections, and retreats that introduced students to the city, to community partners and to their own great strengths.
• Bonner students got directly involved in the leadership and growth of an ailing student organization, the LINK. The LINK, focusing on connecting campus to the surrounding community, has been reinvigorated through the participation of Bonner students and their dedication to authentic work with diverse groups off-campus.

 

2009 Augsburg Leaders Program will add 15 more students to the returning 17 students. This group will continue to spread their work around civic engagement through the campus culture at Augsburg as well as to link their learning to many of the academic courses on campus. Go Bonner!

 

 

PLAN FOR PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

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Please complete the:

Augsburg 2008-2009 Annual Report

 

 

2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

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• 2009 Annual Report

 

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

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Serve 2.0

• Staff Point Person for project:  Kristin Farrell (farrellk@augsburg.edu)
• Student Point Person for project:  Maddie Jensen (jensenm@augsburg.edu)
• Planning to submit mini-grant proposal:  no
• Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status:  created - http://augsburgbonnerwiki.pbwiki.com/
• Participating in Bonner Video Project:  yes
  • Student BVL (Bonner Video Liaison) contact info posted on link: Bonner Video Liaisons
  • Need a Flip Cam? : yes
• See useful links:  Serve 2.0 Resource Wiki   |   Mini-Grant RFP

 

BWBRS

• Using BWBRS 3.0: yes
• Need for additional training:  no
• 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.
• Spring Enrollments 2009:  Please complete this survey right away: AmeriCorps Survey
• 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)? 
  • Homelessness and Hunger Campus Issue Profile: Homelessness and Hunger - Augsburg College
• 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

 

 PHOTOS

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Feel free to upload photos, especially of events like Orientation, First Year Trip, Second Year Exchange, Congress Representatives and Senior Interns, Campus-Wide projects, or the Bonner community.  Provide brief captions if you can.

 

 

AUGSBURG BONNER VIDEO PROJECT