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Location: southwest Virginia

Enrollment: 1,000

Other interesting tidbits: Emory & Henry College's Appalachian Center for Community Service also oversees the department of Public Policy and Community Service.

 

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

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Name of Campus-Wide Center: Appalachian Center for Community Service

Relevant website:http://www.ehc.edu/special/service/commservice.html

 

Type of Program: Bonner Scholars

Year Began: 1991

Bonner Program website: http://www.ehcweb.ehc.edu/bonner/

 

Number of Bonner Scholars: 80

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: 30

Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award: 3

Active in Learn & Serve CBR: Yes

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor:  

 

KEY CONTACTS

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President: Dr. Rosalind Reichard

Center Director: Tal Stanley

Bonner Director: Tal Stanley

Bonner Coordinator: Christian Miller

Bonner Senior Intern(s): Rob Hudson

Bonner Congress Representatives: Zach Triplett, Joni Ritter

Other:

 

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

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This March, first-year Bonners, for the seventh year, traveled to New York for a week of service and learning. 

 

Prior to the trip, students spent time in reflection meetings preparing experience.  As a group, they learned about and discussed the general issues of poverty and homelessness, drawing on their own experiences thus far and on their service as Bonners.  We gave attention to such topics as the working poor, American urban culture, cultural diversity, New York City history, geography, art and culture, and general NYC information. 

 

While in the city, we worked with a variety of programs for the homeless and working poor, including shelters, soup kitchens, and thrift stores.  Our work was coordinated through the Youth Service Opportunities Project, or YSOP.  YSOP set up a three-day work camp for our group, provided our students with an orientation to the issues of poverty in the city as well as an introduction to their service sites.  This year, YSOP let us write our own reflection curriculum for the end of each work day. This was a great success and our students responded with deep thinking to the critical questions we posed. Our work with this organization provided strong and meaningful experiences for our students. 

 

With the previous trips to New York being such successes, we wanted to give our first-year Bonners the same opportunity to experience community service in an urban setting, hoping that they would be able to see that the root causes of poverty are the same in New York City as they are in rural Southwest Virginia.  Our students did gain some insight into the issues of homelessness and poverty and made important connections between the rural and urban aspects of those issues.  By the end of the week, the students had taken part in a service experience that they would remember for the rest of their lives. 

 

 

Student Leadership Planning:

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Click here for Congress Leadership Plans:

E&H Congress Action Planning

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2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

• 2009 Annual Report

 

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

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Serve 2.0

• Staff Point Person for project:  Christian Miller cmiller@ehc.edu
• Student Point Person for project:  Kelcie Butcher kbutcher05@ehc.edu
• Planning to submit mini-grant proposal:  no
• Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status:  created
• Participating in Bonner Video Project:  yes
  • Student BVL (Bonner Video Liaison) contact info posted on link: Bonner Video Liaisons
  • Need a Flip Cam? (we can provide one per campus): yes
• 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:
  • 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)? 
  • rural economic and community development
• Specific topic for issue brief (see Research Guide for help to work with partner in defining):  
  • Emory & Henry signs Memorandum of Agreement with community of Fries, VA
• Lead contact people for project (staff and/or students, community partner agency):
  • Tal Stanley, tastanle@ehc.edu, 276-944-6817
• See useful links:  PolicyOptions Wiki   |  Campus Implementation Guide

 

Photos and Videos

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Between March 27 and April 18, 2009, Emory & Henry College students, staff, faculty and community members built a "House of Hope" in cooperation with The Washington County Habitat for Humanity Chapter as well as the Emory and Meadowview United Methodist Churches.

 

March 25

 

 

 

 

April 18

 

 

 

 

http://www.ehc.edu/videos/profiles/hope_60_gina.html 

http://www.ehc.edu/videos/profiles/hope_30_gina.html