Lees-McRae College

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CAMPUS NAME AND ADDRESS

Lees-McRae College

191 Main St.

Banner Elk, NC

(828) 898-5241

www.lmc.edu

CAMPUS AT A GLANCE (brief description)

A Presbyterian-affiliated institution founded in 1900 to serve the educational needs of the Southern Appalachian region, Lees-McRae College continues to provide a quality, values-based education in an ecumenical environment, inspiring and enabling individuals to contribute to a changing society with integrity and civic responsibility. Through a curriculum rooted in a liberal arts core and emphasizing leadership and service, graduates obtain knowledge, skills, and a holistic understanding of themselves and the world.

Location: Banner Elk, North Carolina (At 4,000 ft. above sea level, LMC has the highest elevation of any college campus east of the Mississippi.)

Enrollment: 882 Students

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Name of Campus-Wide Center: Community Outreach Office in the Global Community Center

website:http://www.lmc.edu/sites/studentdevelopment/StudentLife/CommunityService/BonnerLeaders/

Type of Program: Bonner Leader

Year Began: 2001

LMC Website: http://www.lmc.edu/sites/studentdevelopment/StudentLife/CommunityService/BonnerLeaders/

PBWiki Page: www.lmcbonner.pbwiki.com

Number of Bonner Leaders: 30

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: 30

KEY CONTACTS

President: Dr. Scott Colley

Director of the Global Community Center: Scott Crawford

Director of the Community Outreach Office & Bonner Director: Selena Hilemon

Bonner Senior Intern: Charlie Herron

Bonner Congress Representatives: Inee Ader, Collin Gundry

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

Alternative Fall and Spring Breaks

This year our office offered three alternative breaks. During the fall break 9 students traveled to Jubilee Partners in Comer, Georgia to learn about refugee issues here in the U.S. building community and even a little organic farming. The group stayed a total of six days and mainly interacted with families from Myanmar (the country formerly known as Burma) and Burundi.

During the spring break the office hosted two separate trips. One group of 13 students traveled to the Southwest and worked in both Canyon de Chelly and the Grand Canyon National Park. Participants looked at historic and current issues on the Navajo reservation and their relationship with the National Park System and worked with the Grand Canyon Emergency Response Team. Another group of 10 students traveled to New York City to look at urban issues of social justice such as homelessness, hunger, the AIDs epidemic and much more.

Mountain Day of Service

An annual tradition on our campus, this year's Mountain Day of Service involved over 500 of our students, staff and faculty. Participants take a day off from classes and volunteer on our campus and in the community. Volunteers from Lees-McRae painted and mulched the play grounds of local elementary schools, painted fire hydrants with the volunteer fire department, cleaned the barns of a local therapeutic riding center, and turned a decaying outdoor basketball court here on our campus into a new and vibrant place for students to enjoy. The day was completed with a dinner for all participants that celebrating our last president.

Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week

Each year the Office of Community Outreach hosts a Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week on our campus for both our campus and community. Our Bonner Leaders serve as the primary organizers for this week of events that this year included a hunger banquet, a weighing of our waste in the cafeteria, thirty hour famine, benefit concert with Andy Davis, movie and discussion night, and a canned food drive that raised items for our local food pantry. We worked to collaborate with several organizations and departments on campus and successfully created a few new relationships with our new Student Recreation Complex and fortified our relationship with our Aramark Dining Services staff.

Human Rights Awareness Week

This year we hosted our first ever Human Rights Awareness Week in the spring. The Office of Community Outreach collaborated with the Global Community Center on our campus to host a week full of activities such as spoken word artist, Gabriela Garcia-Medina, keynote speaker Layli Miller-Muro who is the executive Director of the Tahajri Justice, a community partner organizational fair that gave students ideas about options for service and engagement, a vigil hosted in conjunction with the local Baha'i Community for those Baha'is being held in Iran and a showing of Milk co-hosted by our organizational team and the student government association from Appalachian State University.

2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

2009 Annual Report

Student Leadership Planning:

Click here for Congress Leadership Plans:

Lees-McRae Congress Action Planning

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

Serve 2.0

Staff Point Person for project: Selena Hilemon - hilemons@lmc.edu
Student Point Person for project: Charlie Herron - ch0062370@email.lmc.edu
Planning to submit mini-grant proposal: no
Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status: created www.lmcbonner.pbwiki.com
Participating in Bonner Video Project: yes
- Student BVL (Bonner Video Liaison) contact info posted on link: Inee Ader & Collin Gundry
- 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: yes
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.
- Selena Hilemon (hilemons@lmc.edu) Nikki Karabinis (karabinisn@lmc.edu)
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)?
- Environment
Specific topic for issue brief (see Research Guide for help to work with partner in defining):
- Environment - Wildlife Rehabilitation
Lead contact people for project (staff and/or students, community partner agency):
- Nina Fischesser (fischessern@lmc.edu)
- Charlie Herron (ch0062370@email.lmc.edu)
See useful links: PolicyOptions Wiki | Campus Implementation Guide

PHOTOS

Feel free to upload photos, especially of events like Orientation, First Year Trip, Second Year Exchange, Congress Representatives and Senior Interns, Campus-Wide projects, or the Bonner community. Provide brief captions if you can.