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Location: East Tennessee (about 30 minutes from the City of Knoxville)

 

Enrollment: 2,100 (undergraduate college plus graduate programs in nursing, education, & counseling)

 

School colors: Orange and Navy Blue

 

Other interesting tidbits:  Mascot is the "Fighting Eagle."  1 hr from the Appalachian Trail and Smoky Mountain National Park, the College was founded in 1851 as Mossy Creek Baptist Seminary with the original school mascot being the "Fighting Parsons."  

 

 

OUR PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

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Name of Campus-Wide Center: Bonner Center for Service Learning & Civic Engagement

 

Website: www.cn.edu/bonner

Program Wiki: cnbonner.pbwiki.com    

 

Type of Program: Bonner Scholars

 

Year Began: 1991

 

Address & Contact Info:

Bonner Scholars Office

CN Box 72008

Jefferson City, TN 37760

Office:(865)471-3594/Fax: (865)471-4827

 

Number of Bonner Scholars: 60

 

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: 18

 

Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award:  1

 

Active in Learn & Serve CBR: Yes

 

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor:  Social entrepreneurship, women's studies, environment & commuinty, conflict & justice studies

 

    

KEY CONTACTS

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Bonner Center Director:Dr. Larry Osborne

Bonner Center Associate Director: Dr. Beth Vanlandingham

Bonner Coordinator: Mr. Matt Bryant Cheney

Bonner Administrative Assistant: Mrs. Karina Fox

Bonner Senior Intern: Amy Sauls

Bonner President:Derek Voiles

Bonner Congress Representatives: Channing McLain, Cloi Craig, Jordan Esparza

 

 

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

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The Essence of Our Program & Community

• Our Roots
• Our Distinctives

       

2008-2009 Annual Report of Program Activites

• Program Highlights

 

07-08 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

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CN Bonners are partnered with...

 

Community Connections - a student led group on campus that connects students with the needs of organizations surrounding Carson-Newman.  Their biggest event is Operation Inasmuch, which is held every September.  The one day service event drew almost 500 students and faculty last year.

 

         

 

Operation Inasmuch 2008 - OI brought in over 500 students this year (that's 1/4 of our campus!).  Collectively there were over 1500 hours of community service given Sept. 20th from the Carson-Newman campus.

 

(more descriptions coming soon) 

     

PHOTOS

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Jr/Sr Trip to Washington D.C.

Above (in the left slideshow) are some photos from our Jr/Sr trip to Washington D.C. where we saw national treasures and learned how to better connect our service to US Policy from an afternoon workshop with Bread for the World and a visit to Senator Bob Corker's Office to tour the capitol building and get a sense of how he receives suggestions from citizens.

 

 

Senior Honors Banquet

In the Bottom slideshow are some photos from our 2008 Senior Honors Banquet.  Each year we dress-up and gather to celebrate our seniors' accomplishments in the program and give them a chance to say goodbye to the group as a whole with a short speech.  We also give out yearly awards for leadership and take our official class pictures

 

Student Leadership Planning

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Click here for Congress Leadership Plans:

CN Congress Action Planning

Congress Action Planning 

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SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

 

Bo Bo Info & BoBo Show Videos

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This year, the Carson-Newman Bonners have a newsletter (BoBo Info) that goes out to inform students about past events, upcoming events and to highlight one Bonner: the BoBo of the week.  There is also an interview conducted with each BoBo of the week.  Here they are:

 

Bo Bo Show

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BoBo Info

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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