CAMPUS NAME AND ADDRESS

Defiance College

701 N. Clinton St.

Defiance, OH 43512

http://www.defiance.edu

CAMPUS AT A GLANCE (brief description)

Defiance College is an independent, co-educational, four year liberal arts college located on a 150-acre campus in a residential area of small town Defiance, Ohio. The small-town atmosphere, student life, athletics, the school's work in the field of service learning, and picturesque campus helped the college to be recognized as one of the best colleges in 2008 as featured in U.S. News and World Report.

KEY FACTS

• The College was founded in 1850 as the Defiance Female Seminary School.  Became known as Defiance College in 1903 and is affliated with the United Church of Christ.
• The name Defiance comes from General "Mad" Anthony Wayne upon the creation of Fort Defiance during the campaign against Ohio Native Americans in 1794.
• 90% of the student body is engaged in service.
• Each year, nearly 30 students participate in international or national community based research(New Orleans, Belize, Cambodia).

Location: northwestern Ohio, about 3 hours northwest of the state capital of Columbus

Enrollment: 1,000

Other interesting tidbits:

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Name of Campus-Wide Center: The McMaster School for Advancing Humanity

Relevant website: http://www.defiance.edu/mcmaster_school.html

Type of Program: Bonner Leaders

Year Began: 2004

Bonner Program website: http://www.defiance.edu/Bonner.html

Number of Bonner Leaders: 28

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: No

Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award: No

Active in Learn & Serve CBR: No

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor: No  

KEY CONTACTS

President: Dr. Mark Gordon

Center Director: Dr. Laurie Worrall

Bonner Director: Taylor Daugherty

Bonner Senior Intern(s): Andrew White

Bonner Congress Representatives: Gene Snyder, Janis Wilkinson

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 

Click here to complete wiki-based portion of Annual Report. 

2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

• 2009 Annual Report

Student Leadership Planning:

Click here for Congress Leadership Plans:

Defiance Action Planning

Bonner Meeting Powerpoints:

2009-2010 Meeting Outline

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

Serve 2.0

• Staff Point Person for project:  
• Student Point Person for project:  
• Planning to submit mini-grant proposal:  
• Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status:  in process now; http://defiancebonnerleaders.pbwiki.com
• Participating in Bonner Video Project:  No
  • Student BVL (Bonner Video Liaison) contact info posted on link: Bonner Video Liaisons
  • Need a Flip Cam? (we can provide one per campus): No
• See useful links:  Serve 2.0 Resource Wiki   |   Mini-Grant RFP

BWBRS

• Using BWBRS 3.0: Yes
• Need for additional training:  No
• 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:  Not Currently
  • 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)? 
  • Community and Economic Development
  • LINK TO COMPLETE CAMPUS ISSUE PROFILE:  Economic Development - Defiance 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):
  • names, titles, phone numbers, emails
• See useful links:  PolicyOptions Wiki   |  Campus Implementation Guide

PHOTOS

(L to R):  Caci Craig, Bonner Intern:  Andrew (Andy) White, and Charlene Underwood assist in the building of a home during an international service trip to Jamaica of January 2010. 

Bonner Intern, Andrew White, leads a teambuilding workshop/game during the 2010 Bonner Leaders and Citizen Leaders Winter Retreat. 

(Middle) Lynn Haller, Citizen Leader Intern, also led teambuilding activities during the 2010 Bonner Leaders and Citizen Leaders Winter Retreat.