At this years Summer Leadership Institute, students in the Bonner Congress Track were asked to contribute their thoughts and ideas to a document which we hope will guide this years Bonner Congress experience. Below is the working document this years Congress Track drafted:
As a Bonner Congress Representative I will commit myself to the following:
- Acquiring knowledge of the national network
- Locations of Bonner schools
- Founding schools
- Mission of Bonner Program
- Common Commitments
- Implementing new communication strategies
- Wiki
- Bonner Network Forum (Ning)
- Reaching out to other local Bonner Programs
- Communicating with the foundation
- Weekly or monthly updates
- Educating myself on community issues
- Understanding assets and challenges of the area we serve
- Being able to help others understand their rights
- Researching and documenting issues
- Representing Bonner on campus
- Sponsoring an informal event
- Starting a newsletter
- Establishing a link through the schools main website
- Creating visibility of a strong Bonner group
- Educating myself on my campus program
- Become aware of strengths and weaknesses of campus program
- Know how program works and what it represents
- Become knowlegeable about what individuals and organizations on and off campus offer opportunities for collaboration
Comments (1)
jasmith said
at 9:55 am on Jul 22, 2009
I have a question/suggestion:
Under Representing Bonner on campus, are the subpoints suggestions or mandatory? In all the other bullets, the subpoints are essential parts of the main bullet, and mandatory for making that bullet a reality. Under the represenation bullet, however, the subpoints are not essential -- good suggestions, but not essential. Could we perhaps way something like:
Representing Bonner on campus
Create visibility of a strong Bonner group
Educate my campus program on the national network
Facilitate communication among program Bonners to school and national staff
Then perhaps we can create a resource page off of the Bonner congress page, linking to modules that would help accomplish what are now listed as subpoints.
This way, what is in the constitution outlines the essential components and responsibilities of a congress rep, and these ideas listed can be closer to resources necessary for implementation. The three subpoints I listed are suggestions, but I noticed nothing is included about communication at the local level -- unless I am mistaken about this being a CRep responsibility.
Hope this helps!
Jared
Davidson College
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