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Location: about a 45-minute drive west of Indianapolis

Enrollment: 2,398

Other interesting tidbits:   

• DePauw University is among the top 10 smaller colleges and universities in the United States for sending students to study abroad, according to Open Doors 2006, the annual report on international education published by the Institute of International Education (IIE) with funding from the State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
• Also, in 2002 The Chronicle of Higher Education ranked DePauw third among America's liberal arts colleges of students who study off campus.
• The Monon Bell Classic game between nearby Wabash College and DePauw is one of the oldest and most storied rivalries in college football.  Go Tigers!

 

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

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Name of Campus-Wide Center: Hartman House for Civic Education

Relevant website: http://www.depauw.edu/univ/hartman/

 

Type of Program: Bonner Scholars

Year Began: 1993

Bonner Program website: http://www.depauw.edu/univ/hartman/bonner.asp

 

 

Number of Bonner Scholars: 62

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: 0

Active in Learn & Serve CBR:

 

 

KEY CONTACTS

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President:   Dr. Brian Casey

Center Director: Sarah Ryan

Bonner Director: Sarah Ryan

Bonner Coordinator: Jessie Scott

Bonner Senior Intern: Kelly Garringer-MacCabe

Bonner Congress Representatives: Donta Goodwin and Nicholas Flores

Bonner Executive Committee:

Courtney Knies, Chair of Bonner Love Teams

Donta Goodwin, Chair of Classes

Nicholas Flores, Community Fund Chair

Staci Orr, Honor Chair

Jess Roberson, PR Committee Chair

 

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

 

A Year At A Glance:

 

 

Bonner Orientation: Every August we welcome twenty new Bonner scholars and 4 or 5 mentors to our Bonner Orientation.  Common staples of the orientation include: dinner with the president, a "Tour de Greencastle" visiting community partner sites, Bonner history, cooking dinner together, a rock climbing wall, and tons of bonding events!  We have found that working with students before school gives them a sense of the Bonner family before the whirlwind of activities picks up; it also allows students to get a feel for the Bonner programming and expectations.

 

 

All-Bonner Retreat: During the fall semester the whole Bonner program takes a day to spend time together doing a service project and seeing a new part of Putnam County. Last year, we went to the Cataract Falls State Park and helped to clean the trails and waterways. We also were able to picnic at the covered bridge and spend quality time with our fellow Bonners through games, activities, and reflection activities.

 

First-Year Seminar and Trip:  Our first-year Bonners take a required Winter Term course in January titled

"Civic Education from Classroom to Community."  This course utilizes the six Bonner Common Commitments

as a framework, and concludes with a "This I Believe" writing exercise.  Our first-year service trip is an

element of this course.  For the fourth consecutive year, The Brother David Darst Center for Justice and

Peace, Spirituality and Education (www.brdaviddarstcenter.org) in Chicago served as our host for the trip.

Our service sites included REST warming shelters, Su Casa, San Miguel Schools, and the Greater Chicago Food Depository.

 

2008-2009 Highlights

• We had an amazing group of Bonner student leaders on the Exec board!
• Bonner Love Teams were established this year to explore more of the social justice issues related to service.  The topics were Education, Environment, Human Needs, and Public Safety.
• Our First Year Winter Term Seminar and Trip is always a huge success thanks for our fantastic partners in the community and across campus, The Brother David Darst Center who host us in Chicago for our service and social justice trip, and of course our incredible first-year Bonners who consistently surprise us with their candor and sincerity.
• The Community Round table was a new intitiative in partnership with the City of Greencastle Mayor's Office to bring together a small group of topic-specific experts from the campus and community to meet, engage in discussion, and share ideas.
• The Senior Convocation was the best senior capstone dinner and presentations in years thanks to the vision and planning of our amazing Senior interns.

 

 

 

DPU Bonner Scholars in the News:

DePauw's Summer Ecuador Program for incoming first-year students, coordinated by Bonner Scholar Emma Minx:   http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=21827

Profile of Senior Kristie Carter: http://www.depauw.edu/admission/profile.asp?id=410

SLI All Bonner Service participant, Chris Anderson: http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Local/newWEST03060509.htm

 

Read about some of our community partners:

Summer Enrichment Program:   www.bannergraphic.com/story/1441827.html

Hope's Way:  www.bannergraphic.com/story/1439124.html

 

ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

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DePauw Annual Report

2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

• 2009 Annual Report

 

Student Leadership Planning:

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Click here for Congress Leadership Plans:

DePauw Congress Action Planning

 

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

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Serve 2.0

• Staff Point Person for project:  Jessie Scott, jscott@depauw.edu
• Student Point Person for project:  
• Planning to submit mini-grant proposal:  no
• Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status:  not created; just the campus profile at this point, on their to do list. When you do, provide URL:
• Participating in Bonner Video Project:  yes, the main focus for the student liaisons
  • Student BVL (Bonner Video Liaison) contact info posted on link: Bonner Video Liaisons
  • Need a Flip Cam? (we can provide one per campus): no, have 2 flip cams (they bought one last SLI)
• See useful links:  Serve 2.0 Resource Wiki   |   Mini-Grant RFP
• Do use facebook, don't use blogs at the moment

 

BWBRS

• Using BWBRS 3.0: Yes. We have incorporated BWBRS 3.0 into our program. Need for additional training: no - but have an issue with tab color, will email Bobby
• 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:(one active member) Jessie Scott is managing the paperwork, jscott@depauw.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. Will email Jessie to schedule. 
• 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. Will not take any new members this spring. 

 

Issue-Based Research

• What issue(s) working group will your campus focus on (in preparation for SLI 2009)? 
  • Environment
• Specific topic for issue brief (see Research Guide for help to work with partner in defining):  
  • Environment (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

 

General Support:

Things are going well. Few first year students that they have lost (suspended for spring semester-3). Winter term class went really well-The Impossible Will Take a While, guest speakers, reading, This I believe project. First year service trip to Chicago over break-also went well. "Students were amazing." They have a few folks registered for Impact Conference. Heard the Bonner program referenced in Chicago-"Service Minded Students Rewarded with Scholarship"-Justin Pope, Associate Press.

 

Calling for support on issue brief. First time, Navigating their way. There is a lot of momentum on campus in terms of environment. Will need support for putting in the package of an issue brief. 

 

Will work on doing campus wiki/supporting students leading the charge in technology.

 

If visited, want policy focus. There is also a new President on campus. It would be helpful to talk with him and get on the same page. Faculty Engagement.

 

PHOTOS

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Each year in December, the Bonner Scholars coordinate the 5000 Lights Luminaria on the DePauw campus. 

This year's luminaria event was held in conjunction with the Greencastle Civic League's "Lights of Love"

program on the town square.  In this photo, Bonner Scholar Bryn Gehring sets up one of the luminaria.

 

The DePauw Bonner class of 2011 poses at the Darst Center before departing from the Chicago service

trip in January.

 

 

Bonner Scholars enjoy the view from the Cataract Falls covered bridge at the All-Bonner Fall Retreat 

 

 

BONNER GRAPHIC

 

 

The Bonner Graphic was created by the Bonner Public Relations Committee. The role of the Bonner Graphic is two-fold. First, we aim to provide recognition of notable accolades and  accomplishments that result from Bonner Scholars and their service. Second, we seek to act as a source of information, opinion, and inspiration for those within the Bonner community whose efforts we chronicle, as well as interested audiences in the community at-large who are interested in learning more about community activism and philanthropy.

 

October 2009 - BonnerGraphic[1].pdf

 

 

BONNERS ON  THE  NEWS

 

 

http://www.depauw.edu/acad/articles/?id=24279