(Lily, Zoe, Leila painting at Habitat)
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Earlham College
Earlham College
Engaging a Changing World
Earlham College 801 National Road West Richmond, IN 47374
CAMPUS AT A GLANCE (brief description)
The mission of Earlham College, an independent, residential college, is to provide the highest quality undergraduate education in the liberal arts, including the sciences, shaped by the distinctive perspectives of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). A basic faith of Friends is that all truth is God's truth; thus Earlham emphasizes: pursuit of truth, wherever that pursuit leads; lack of coercion, letting the evidence lead that search; respect for the consciences of others; openness to new truth and therefore the willingness to search; veracity, rigorous integrity in dealing with the facts; application of what is known to improving our world.
At Earlham College this education is carried on with a concern for the world in which we live and for improving human society. The College strives to educate morally sensitive leaders for future generations. Therefore Earlham stresses global education, peaceful resolution of conflict, equality of persons, and high moral standards of personal conduct.
KEY FACTS Location: about 70 miles east of the state capital, Indianapolis Click here for directions from main highways
Enrollment: 1,194 Other interesting tidbits: 72% of the student body participate in an off-campus study experience
Earlham graduates are well prepared for further study; nearly half of Earlham alumni graduating in the last 10 years enrolled in graduate or professional school.
BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE Name of Campus-Wide Center: Bonner Center for Service and Vocation Relevant website: www.earlham.edu/bcsv
Type of Program: Bonner Scholars Year Began: 1992 Bonner Program website:www.earlham.edu/bonner
Number of Bonner Scholars:59 Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: 5 Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award: Active in Learn & Serve CBR: Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor:
KEY CONTACTS President: Dr. Douglas C. Bennett Center Director: Derric M. Watson Bonner Coordinator: Jana Schroeder Bonner Senior Intern(s): Topher Weiss-Lehman Serve 2.0 Champion: Margaret Obermayer Bonner Congress Representatives: Katrina Cohoe, Damian Almiron, Maddie Campbell Other: The EC Bonner Team
MORE ABOUT US (our partners, trips, structure, best or unique practices)
Earlham’s Bonner Scholars Program is characterized by motivated students eager to make a difference in Richmond and Wayne County, their home communities and in other communities they visit while participating in off campus study and summer service. Bonner Scholars are leaders at their service sites, on campus and in the Bonner program. Since its founding in 1992, Earlham's Bonner program has grown and improved.
Welcome class of 2013!!! We had a wonderful time at Bonner Orientation 2009! Our new Bonner class is filled with interesting and committed students! We began orientation with an introduction to Bonner and Richmond and then we went bowling on Wednesday night. Thursday we spent the day working at Habitat for Humanity and then concluded with a picnic at Cope Environmental Center. We concluded with breakfast and a reflection session on Friday morning.
(Brandt, Katie, Ethan, and Eric weeding at Habitat) (Left to Right: Naseem, Matthew, Katie, Erin, Kaitlin, Alexis, Luke eating at Cope)
ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
In October 2008 Earlham College dedicated the Bonner Center for Service and Vocation. The Center’s mission is to help students discover the gifts and passions that will allow them to make a unique contribution to the world and to provide them the opportunities to gain concrete skills, knowledge and experience that will lead to the achievement of their vocational and service aspirations. Community partners, students, faculty and staff renewed their commitment to working together to learn, teach and address critical needs in Wayne County and around the world. Bonner Scholars recognized the important role they play in promoting a climate of service and civic engagement on campus and in helping fellow students connect with and serve the community in which they are living while they attend Earlham.
Bonner Scholars serve Richmond’s city government in a variety of capacities. One student worked closely with Mayor Sally Hutton to organize a spring neighborhood clean-up day where dozens of Earlham students worked alongside Richmond residents and then enjoyed a barbecue. Other Bonners designed materials to promote curbside recycling and recruited other students to canvass a neighborhood with low participation in the recycling program. Richmond’s human Rights Commission has experienced budget and staffing cuts and relies increasingly on the skills and dedication of Earlham students to conduct research and help with investigation of allegations of discrimination. And one Bonner got to ride along with garbage collectors to gather data needed to make recommendations about changes in garbage routes and other practices that might save fuel.
First year Bonners traveled to a new location—the Big Ugly Community Center in southwestern West Virginia—for their service trip. They planted trees, helped lay down a new surface for a walking track, cleaned the creek, carried and sorted donated books for the center’s library and interviewed local residents about their perceptions of water quality and talked with long-time activists to begin gathering information for an oral history project. They also hiked up to an abandoned strip mine and attended a performance by a local musician and union activist. Students who knew little about Appalachia before the trip came back with an appreciation for its people, environment and culture.
Chelsea Pasmore volunteering at the local Boys and Girls club, as photographed by Sarah McDermott for Earlham College's Photo 2 class. This year marked the second collaboration between photography students and Bonner Scholars.
City workers filled their dump truck with Earlham College students at the annual Day of Service.
Katrina Cohoe helps out at the Charleston WV Habitat ReStore as part of the 1st year trip to West Virginia.
SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES
Serve 2.0
BWBRS
Bonner AmeriCorps
Issue-Based Research
Check Out the Earlham Bonner Wiki Page!
Student Leadership Planning: Click here for Congress Leadership Plans: Earlham Congress Action Planning
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