Location: Lewiston, Maine

Enrollment:  1776

Other interesting tidbits:

• Holds the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement in both Curricular Engagement and Outreach and Partnerships.
• Has no fraternities or sororities.
• Was one of the first colleges/universities in the nation to stop requiring the SAT (in 1984).
• Has an ice rink but no varsity hockey team.  Go figure.

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Name of Campus-Wide Center: Harward Center for Community Partnerships

Relevant website: http://www.bates.edu/harward-center.xml

Type of Program:  Bonner Leaders Program

Year Began: 2008-09

Bonner Program website: an internal wiki for planning and piloting; also a very preliminary program description at the HCCP website: http://www.bates.edu/x202243.xml.

Number of Bonner Scholars/Leaders: eight active in Winter 09 (plus 2 on hiatus abroad); seven new recruits just accepted in June 2009!  We expect a total of 14-15 in 2009-10.

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: none yet...

Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award: don't think we'll have it, since your system seems so much better!

Active in Learn & Serve CBR: eight students in Fall 2008; seven in Winter 2009; six in Summer 2009.

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor:  none

KEY CONTACTS

President: Elaine Hansen

Center Director: David Scobey

Bonner Director: Anna Sims Bartel

Bonner Senior Intern(s): Nate Kellogg and Julie Miller-Hendry for 2008-09

Bonner Congress Representatives: Theodore Sutherland; Sarah Davis for 2008-09

Other: 2009-10: Video Project/Civic Storyteller: Stephany Hernandez; Global Storyteller: Theodore Sutherland

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

The Harward Center for Community Partnerships supports:

• the college's Academic Community-Based Learning Program;
• Volunteerism and Student Leadership Development Program (including the Student Volunteer Fellows Program);
• the Community-Based Research Fellows Program (funded through Learn and Serve, via the National CBR Network);
• Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area;
• Community Work-Study programming;
• a range of fellowships and grant funds for students over the summer and during the academic year;
• a host of grant programs for faculty and staff;
• a student philanthropy fund for community partner agencies (the Carignan Fund)

Over half of Bates students engage in academic community-based learning or research during their career; two-thirds of Bates students engage in other community-based work.

What did we do in 2008-09?

We have spent the past year planning and piloting our Bonner Leaders Program,  Our planning/pilot group is a mix of faculty, staff and students, all bringing different and specific interests, experience, and expertise.  We have a developmental psychology professor (who pioneered Action Research in the 1980's and has been an active teacher, partner, and practitioner since); a clinical psychology professor who is also currently undertaking research on student engagement for the AACU's Bringing Theory to Practice project; the Associate Director of the Harward Center; the Harward Center's Assistant Director for Volunteerism and Student Leadership Development; the Harward Center's Service-Learning Coordinator; the Associate Dean for Student Transitions/Admissions Director for Multicultural Recruitment; eight students from diverse years, genders, and backgrounds. 

We met regularly, developing ideas, plans, and resources with the use of a dedicated wiki.  Achievements include:

Development and implementation of recruitment model:

• the creation of a recruitment plan (successfully implemented, bringing in seven new recruits (five of them work-study eligible) with a diversity of backgrounds and interests);

Planning of cornerstone activities:

• planning of and relationship-building for an April service trip to work with an ongoing project raising college aspirations and access for Wabenaki youth in northern Maine;
• dialogue with Amherst to develop plans for regular fall service exchange;
• special collaborative project by current first-year Bonners (with participation from more senior Bonners) to plan fall 2009 orientation for all Bonners;
• attendance of two Bonners at Bonner Congress in the Fall, two Bonners at Bentley’s national Students as Colleagues Conference, and one Bonner at the Summer Leadership Institute in Florida;
• funding of one current Bonner in a CWS summer of full-time work with a non-profit doing social justice work in her home community;

Creation of program support and materials:

• construction and dissemination of a program brochure;
• student writing, casting, and filming a video that introduces our Bonner Leader Program (in editing and production over the summer);
• creation, funding, and successful recruitment of a VISTA dedicated to our Bonner Leader Program; 
• work with students to create campus issue profiles (see posted samples in our wiki profile) and plan to use the development of such issue profiles as a tool for team-building across modes of service;
• an ongoing narrative inquiry research project with CBR Fellows and Student Volunteer Fellows (groups that overlap significantly with Bonner and in which Bonners are encouraged to serve) to study their understandings of "service"; the work they have done at Bates in community; the ways they understand that work's impact on themselves and their communities; their plans for the future and how their experiences in community helped shape those plans;
• staff training on BWBRS and planned implementation of it this summer (we intend to use it for Bonners, other Ed Award students, and Student Volunteer Fellows);

Creation of developmental model and co-curriculum:

• development of a Bonner curriculum and clear requirements for students;
• study of Bonner student development models and creation, by engaged faculty in particular, of a complementary student development model that more closely reflects the Bates experience: Explore, Commit, Explore, Commit;
• creation, again with faculty support in particular, of an evaluation/assessment/reflection system and cycle to understand the impacts of the program on Bonner Leaders;
• development of a Bates-Bonner Student Leadership training plan, exploration of other existing leadership training across campus (including collaboration with Dean of Students) and beginnings of a manual;
• running a two-part student development workshop series on non-profit finances and grantwriting basics; student attendees administered the Carignan Fund, making grants to community partner organizations;
• development of a range of student "Bonner activity" options, including: community-based learning; community-based research; TA-ing CBL or CBR courses; volunteerism; volunteer leadership; student philanthropy; "civic storytelling" and "global storytelling."

PLANS FOR PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

Please complete the:

Bates - Bonner Program Start-Up Plan

PHOTOS

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.

Student Leadership Plans

Click here for Student Leadership Plans:

Congress Action Planning

2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

• 2009 Annual Report 

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

Serve 2.0

• Staff Point Person for project:  Anna Bartel (abartel@bates.edu)
• Student Point Person for project:  Stephany Hernandez
• Planning to submit mini-grant proposal:  no
• Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status:  created and in process -- this is our workhorse! http://batesbonner.pbwiki.com/
• Participating in Bonner Video Project:  first video (an intro to our Bonner program) is in production
  • Student BVL (Bonner Video Liaison) contact info posted on link: Bonner Video Liaisons
  • Need a Flip Cam? (we can provide one per campus):  no -- we bought some
• See useful links:  Serve 2.0 Resource Wiki   |   Mini-Grant RFP

BWBRS

• Using BWBRS 3.0: not yet, but getting much closer!
• Need for additional training:  Marty Deschaines (main manager) and Anna Bartel received training from Gretchen Mielke; we'll implement the system this summer and work with the Bonner VISTA to maintain it.
• 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:   Marty Deschaines: mdeschai@bates.edu
• • 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)? 
  • Health
  • LINK TO CAMPUS ISSUE PROFILE:  Heath and Mental Health - Bates 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):
  • Professor who is involved in PolicyOptions.org will be involved
  • names, titles, phone numbers, emails
• See useful links:  PolicyOptions Wiki   |  Campus Implementation Guide