Location: southern California, about 30 minutes northeast from the Los Angeles International Airport

Enrollment: 15,342

Other interesting tidbits:

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Name of Campus-Wide Center: EPIC: 

What is E.P.I.C.?

Established in 1966, E.P.I.C. is Cal State L.A.'s nationally recognized student community servicel learning program. E.P.I.C was created by the university and its students to serve the needs of the community. Through E.P.I. C students can volunteer in the community and gain career-related experience, explore career choices, implement classroom theory into practice an/or earn academic credit. E.P.I.C. is sponsored by Associated Students, Inc. and the Division of Student Affairs.

Relevant website: 

Type of Program: Bonner AmeriCorps

Year Began:

Bonner Program website:

Number of Bonner Scholars/Leaders:

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award:

Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award:

Active in Learn & Serve CBR:

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor:  

KEY CONTACTS

President:

Center Director:

Bonner Director:

Bonner Senior Intern(s):

Bonner Congress Representatives:

Other:

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

As part of your Annual Report 2008, we ask all campuses to add 1-2 paragraphs here that describe a few highlights of the programmatic activities from this year.  For instance, you may choose to capture an aspect of a very successful trip or a campus-wide service initiatives.  Or you may describe some key work you did with community partners, or your efforts to incorporate community-based research with faculty.  As part of your larger Campus Profile, these few paragraphs should provide a sense of elements that are particularly strong and/or unique about your Bonner Program.  You can delete this instruction text when you are done.

You also want to:

1)  Review the rest of the profile and edit it for accuracy, add photos, and so on.

2)  Click on the link below to take you to a second wiki page where you can submit a more extended program report as part of your Annual Report.

ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

2010-2011 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

• Cal State LA Year at a Glance

Click here to complete the

Cal State LA - Bonner AmeriCorps Program Report

2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

• 2009 Annual Report

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

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

Serve 2.0

• Staff Point Person for project:  name - email
• Student Point Person for project:  name - email
• Planning to submit mini-grant proposal:  yes - no
• Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status:  created - not created; if yes, provide URL
• Participating in Bonner Video Project:  yes - no
• Student BVL (Bonner Video Liaison) contact info posted on link: Bonner Video Liaisons
• Need a Flip Cam? (we can provide one per campus): yes - no
• See useful links:  Serve 2.0 Resource Wiki   |   Mini-Grant RFP

BWBRS

• Using BWBRS 3.0: yes - no - comment
• Need for additional training:  yes - no - for whom
• 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)? 
• general issue area
• 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