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Leadership Building - Bonner Office of Community Service
Campus at a Glance (brief description)
MorehouseCollege is the nation’s largest, private liberal arts college for men. Founded in 1867, the College enrolls approximately 2,800 students. The college offers 26 majors in three academic divisions: Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Mathematics, and Business Administration and Economics. In 1993, Morehouse College established an Office of Community Service by which the following programs and/or initiatives are managed: Bonner Scholars, Adams Scholars, Morehouse Mentoring Program (Frederick Douglass Tutorial Institute), Jumpstart Atlanta, Federal Work Study Community Scholars, Service-Learning Initiative and Summerbridge Breakthrough Alumni Network.
Morehouse College was ranked three times as the number one college in the nation for educating African American students by Black Enterprise magazine, and recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the top feeder schools for the 15 most prominent graduate and professional schools in the country. Morehouse is one of the only two Historically Black Colleges or Universities (HBCU) to produce three Rhodes Scholars.
In addition to Martin Luther King, Jr., other prominent alumni include Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General and director of the National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine’ Shelton “Spike” Lee, filmmaker and president of 40 Acres and A Mule Productions; Samuel L. Jackson, Academy Award nominated actor; Maynard H. Jackson, founder of Jackson Securities and the first African American mayor of Atlanta; and Nima A. Warfield, the first African American Rhodes Scholar from a HBCU.
Bonner Scholars are the premier collection of servant leaders at Morehouse College. They remain at the forefront of perpetuating a culture of sevice on the campus. If "Renaissance men with a social conscious" equates to intellectuals who have the courage to change the world, then Bonner Scholars can indeed claim the title. Over the past 16 years, Bonner Scholars have impacted the Atlanta community by rendering thousands of hours of sevice. They primarily work with local public schools and after-school programs to reinforce classroom learning for the children in the area. Their efforts have helped academically challenged children to turn their grades around and make positive choices for their future.
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This past weekend the Morehouse College Senior Bonners & Adams scholars participated in a Habitat for Humanity project. The Scholars helped lay down sod and planted bushes for the home owner to be Ms. Sewit. For additional pictures, please visit the Bonner class of 2013 link located near the bottom of this page.
On March 17, the Bonner & Adams Scholars supported Bonner alumnus Mark Dodd by participating in his annual “Laps for Life” kidney walk. While some of the scholars helped set up and coordinate the event, others participated in the walk around the campus. The Bonner leadership team went above and beyond by assisting with the Diamond award ceremony later that evening.
Dodd was diagnosed with renal failure six years ago and was shocked to discover prospective organ recipients, "including the poor and lower middle class had to raise $5,000 dollars just to get on the kidney transplant list." Despite continuing physical disabilities, the political science graduate started the Not Alone Foundation in 2006 to provide financial assistance, educational and medical resources to those undergoing and waiting for a kidney transplant. (Source: “Morehouse graduate spearheads glitzy awards for kidney disease”, www.thegrio.com).
The Bonner & Adams scholars have been very busy over the last several weeks serving in the greater Atlanta area. Since the beginning of last month our Scholars have been participating in the Recycle Mania with other surrounding colleges in the Atlanta University Center (AUC). The 2012 Recycle Mania Tournament is a friendly competition between colleges and universities across the United States to see who can recycle or reduce the most waste over an eight week period. Each week during the contest, schools collect and report their recycling and trash weights to Recycle Mania. Top schools in each category earn “bragging rights,” while the winners of each are recognized with an award made of recycled glass. Over 4,500 lbs. of recycle items (paper, plastics, cans, glass, cardboard, and electronics) were collected at the start of the event. Let’s continue to keep up the good work go Team AUC!
On Saturday February 18, one of our programs directors, Mr. Jacob Bentley, and a group of freshmen Bonner and Adams scholars read books with children in the Aya Academy of Excellence program. While there, the Scholars were able to mentor the children and encourage them to strive for excellence in academics.
The mission of Aya Academy of Excellence is to provide community upliftment by guiding student learners toward leadership, endurance, civic responsibility, academic achievement and excellence. We will foster a learning community dedicated toward the preparation of world citizens through academic and social supports for children and their families. All students will receive the charge: Upward Bound, Progress Forward.
Peter Buffett Comes to Morehouse
01/24/12
This past Tuesday, the Morehouse Bonner and Adams scholars were invited to be special guests of the musical genius and humanitarian Peter Buffett. The scholars spent an evening with Mr. Buffet when he performed at the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center Tuesday evening. The evening consisted of a mixer where scholars were introduced to music majors from several surrounding colleges as well as faculty and staff from Morehouse College. At 7:00p.m. Mr. Buffett presented his concert entitled “Life Is What You Make It." Buffett used this title to encourage his guests that it’s their responsibility to make their lives meaningful and make a difference in society. During the concert Mr. Buffett engaged in dialogue with the crowd, explaining the significance of each piece and tying this in with the theme. This was a well-timed message to remind the Bonner and Adams scholars that our service in the greater Atlanta area makes an impact and we must exemplify greatness at all time in the service we provide.
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King Day of Service 2012
01/16/12
This Monday the Morehouse College Bonner and Adams Scholars participated in service projects to honor the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year our theme was "Remaining Awake While Rediscovering Common Values." Approximately 300 hundred students from Morehouse, Spelman and Clark Atlanta came to support the event led by the Bonner Office of Community Service. The volunters were transported to 9 diffrent service sites and engaged in activities such as: painting murals, building benches, landscaping, and park beautification, assisting seniors of our Community, reading and making crafts with Atlanta's elementary school children. Some volunteers even worked with Interfaith, packing medical supplies for countries as far as South Africa.
01/17/12
The Bonner and Adams Scholars return to their service sites after a well-rested winter break ready to serve the greater Atlanta area.
A Training Highlight 2011-2012
For the second year Morehouse College was named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for our commitment to civic engagement. The Bonner Scholar Program has made a number of significant accomplishments during this academic year. Our major accomplishment has been instituting our Issue-based Community Placements in four areas- Education, Homelessness, Environmental and Community Development, which has enabled our office to increase our impact on these important issues that impact our communities. We are particularly proud of our accomplishments in the Homelessness and Environmental areas. We have made inroads in these areas that have made our office and students an important strategic partner for social change. For example, the scholars in the area of Homelessness met weekly with the Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless and provided leadership in several campaigns to improve the conditions of the homeless. We held three environmental seminars led by Bonner Scholar Markese Bryant, who has graduated and now works for the Green for All Organization. This organization along with the newly formed Morehouse College Sustainability Committee will begin retrofitted buildings on campus.
In addition, Bonner Scholars involvement with the Morehouse College Community Revitalization Task Force has led to major community development changes in our surrounding communities. The issue-based format has also given our students increased opportunities to accept and fulfill student leadership positions. In addition to our Senior Intern position, Bonner Scholars will become team leaders in each of these issue areas as well class coordinators and campus leaders with the surrounding community organizations.
Another major accomplishment has been our collaboration with Morehouse College student, staff and faculty in perpetuating a culture of service on campus. The “No Excuse” program and the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service were two campus-wide programs held in conjunction with the Office of Student Services that strengthened our relationships with the community as well as improving the involvement of students, staff and faculty in community service.
Finally, we are very pleased with our on-going partnership with the Spelman College Bonner Program. We continue to increase our mutual participation with community placements and student training and enrichment activities.
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