Location: about 12 minutes north of downtown Albany, NY

Enrollment: 3,000

Other interesting tidbits: Siena College has a Friary on-campus and many priests and brothers teach classes and hold administrative titles.

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

The Office of Academic Community Engagement

http://www.siena.edu/ace

Type of Program: Bonner Leaders

Year Began: 2008

Bonner Program website: www.siena.edu/bonner

http://www.siena.edu/bonner

Number of Bonner Leaders: 58

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: 110 (Academic AmeriCorps and Summer Service Scholars included)

Certificate of Community Development: 35

KEY CONTACTS

President: Father Kevin J, Mullen, OFM

Director of Academic Community Engagement: Dr. Mathew Johnson, mjohnson@siena.edu

Assistant Director of Academic Community Engagement: Tony Rivera, arivera@siena.edu

Associate Director of Academic Community Engagement: Yalitza Negron, ynegron@siena.edu

Assistant Director of Academic Community Engagement: Ruth Kassel, rkassel@siena.edu

Academic Coordinator, Academic Community Engagement: John P. Harden, Esq., jharden@siena.edu

Assistant Director of Academic Community Engagement: Lori Barringer, lbarringer@siena.edu

Coordinator of Quality Assurance and Youth Programs: April Risley, arisley@siena.edu

Assistant Director of Academic Community Engagement: Pamela Skripak, pskripak@siena.edu

Bonner Program Associates: Claudia Congemi, Ryan Gonnelly, Nicholas Ramundo, Jazmin Tejada, Ann Ward, Kelly Finn, Shae-Leigh Paparella-Voorhees

Bonner Congress Representatives: Ann Ward, Monique Jenkinson

Site Team Leaders: Kevin Schafer, Rashonda Jones,Felicia Comuniello, Taramarie Crisafulli, Hannah Waldman, Elizabeth Farah, Kate Bender, George Lopez, Caylin Dadeo Winick, Megan Coleman, Brittany Drollette, Monique Jenkinson, Adderlin Taveras 

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

DEEP Partnerships: Siena works intentionally with their community partnerships to develop a DEEP Service approach, built on a foundation of reciprocity, capacity building, and multifaceted, developmental, academic connections.

First Year Service Trip: Each year Bonner first year students travel to Maine to explore rural poverty with its partners in Presque Isle, and the Tobique Reservation in New Brunswick, Canada. This 11 day trip is combined with a course they will continue in the fall of their sophomore year focusing on rural social justice, and border and indigenous issues. Our students are kept in the dark, forced to be faced with the unknown and unexpected to get out of their comfort zone. We combined community challenges with community interviewing and research in order to add depth to this great experience.

Second Year Exchange: The 2012-2013 academic year brought 100 students from North-East regional schools together to explore ideas of social justice and best practices through INSPIRE 2013.

International Perspective: The Office of ACE has exported its DEEP service philosophy internationally to India and Bolivia. Each summer, Bonner juniors will partake in a five-week internship working with international NGOs, engaging their academic and social justice issues with a lived global citizenship experience. This experience is now open to the entire Bonner network. While students will not be journeying to India this summer, we will send more than 15 students to Coroico, Bolivia.

BWBRS structure: Our BWBRS accountability and maintenance system has been a practical achievement that we are eager to share throughout the network. By requiring complete weekly meetings logging hours before our weekly two hour meeting begins, and enforcing by a remedial BWBRS logging session held every Friday for those who do not meet that deadline, we have almost eliminated the need to chase students down to log hours or submit hour logs during the academic year.  This policy is also applied to our biweekly blogging requirement. It has been so successful that we would definitely recommend it to the network.

Bonner AmeriCorps

• Please list the contact information of the staff and student interns who manage your AmeriCorps Paperwork: Staff: April Risley, arisley@siena.edu Students: Jessica Guthrie, jl06guth@siena.edu

Bonner Network Resource Connections: 

See useful links:  PolicyOptions Wiki   |  Campus Implementation Guide

BWBRS: BWBRS 3.0 Help Guide

IMPACT POWER-POINT:  FacultyEngagement.key

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