Location: 30 minutes west of the state capital of Harrisburg
Enrollment: 2,322
Other interesting tidbits:
BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
Name of Campus-Wide Center: Office of Religious Life & Community Service
Relevant website: http://www.dickinson.edu/departments/commserv/index.html
Type of Program: Bonner Leaders
Year Began: 2003
Bonner Program wiki: http://dickinsonserves.pbworks.com/
Number of Bonner Leaders:30
Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award:6
Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award:
Active in Learn & Serve CBR: Yes
Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor: No
KEY CONTACTS
President: Dr. William Durden
Bonner Director: Mira Hewlett
Bonner Senior Intern/Leadership Team: Samantha Nicastro '11, Michael Connelly '12, Kirsten Lynd '12, Emily Eckardt '13, Giovania Tiarachristie '13.
Bonner Congress Representatives: Michael Blair '12, Kisten Lynd '12
Other:
MORE ABOUT US (our partners, trips, structure, best or unique practices)
Accomplishments this year
*Recruited an active and engaged new Bonner class.
*Conducted an Orientation weekend in September 2009 which kicked off with a Community Partner Fall Welcome Reception. A training session centered on Bonner and bwbrs fundamentals followed the next day and culmintaed with a service project.
*Improved participation in and training on BWBRS, CLA’s, and evaluations.
*Spring 2010 focused on Hunger and Homelessness in Carlisle. Bonners collected hygiene and baby products for care bags that were distributed to the community, displayed photo essays/posters of local hunger and homelessness on campus in high-traffic areas and convened community partners for a gathering recognizing huner and homelessness in the local area.
*Week long first year service trip to New Orleans occurred in May 2010.
*Utilized a variety of high quality campus programs involving expert speakers, documentary films and scholarly panels to enhance the Bonner Training and Enrichment goals.
*Received a high number of great evaluations from our community partners.
*Three sophomores participated in the INSPIRE Conference at Siena College as the 2nd year exchange.
ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
2010-2011 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
2010 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
Student Leadership Planning:
Click here for Congress Leadership Plans:
Dickinson Congress Action Planning
SPRING 2010 INITIATIVES
Serve 2.0
- Staff Point Person for project: Leonard Brown, brownl@dickinson.edu
- Student Point Person for project: Samantha Nicastro, nicastros@dickinson.edu
- Planning to submit mini-grant proposal: no
- Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status: created - dickinsonserves@pbwiki.com
- Participating in Bonner Video Project:
- Student BVL (Bonner Video Liaison) contact info posted on link: Bonner Video Liaisons
- Need a Flip Cam? (we can provide one per campus): no, do have connection to a personal one
- See useful links: Serve 2.0 Resource Wiki | Mini-Grant RFP
BWBRS
- Using BWBRS 3.0: yes
- Need for additional training: not at this point, will check with Samantha Nicastro
- 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: Mira Hewlett, hewlettm@dickinson.edu
Issue-Based Research
- What issue(s) working group will your campus focus on (in preparation for SLP2010?
- Homelessness, Hunger, Environment, Education
- Specific topic for issue brief (see Research Guide for help to work with partner in defining):
- specific issue brief topic
- 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:
Sent Bobby an outline for goals/activities for this spring. Leonard met with admissions, work-study and Professor Staub (Academic Affairs) to start thinking about next year, recruiting earlier, etc.
Had a retreat that went well.
PHOTOS
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