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Location: Less than 2 hours from the capital, Frankfort; 2 hours from Lexington, KY and 1 hour and 30 minutes from Knoxville, TN

Enrollment: 588 Students

Other interesting tidbits:

 

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

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Name of Campus-Wide Center: The Office of Common Partners

Relevant website: http://www.unionky.edu/Acad/CPO/default.asp

 

Type of Program: Bonner Scholars

Year Began: 1998

Bonner Program website: http://www.unionky.edu/Acad/CPO/Bonner/default.asp

 

Number of Bonner Scholars/Leaders:26 scholars/1 leader

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award:19

Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award:

Active in Learn & Serve CBR: Yes

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor:  

 

KEY CONTACTS

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President: Edward de Rosset

Center Director: Gabrielle Mellendorf

Bonner Director: Debbie D'Anna

Bonner Senior Intern(s): Ashley Brown

Bonner Congress Representatives: Jared Ford, Tiffany Moore

 

 

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

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2007-2008 was a year of transition for the UC Bonners.  Though it has been a change in leadership, UC Bonners have never been more focused and hungry for a change within their community.  It is one of their deepest desires to see the change that is taking place by their words, their hands and feet and their hearts to become a culture and a movement!

In cultivating this movement, the UC Bonners plus 110 more students, faculty and staff were hard at work at the 11th Annual Repair Affair event, where they repaired 11 houses throughout Knox County.  Led by our Junior class, the event was quite a success and they are in hope of continuing the tradition in the 12 year by repairing 12 new homes in Knox County.

The UC Bonners were also on the move this Spring Break to New Orleans as we partners with Operation Nehemiah in Saint Bernard's Parish to bring more change to their community.  We were able to help demolish a Nursing home in the lower Ninth Ward that was swalled up by Katrina as well as plant over 100 trees for a recovering neighborhood.

Several new programs were initiated this year including: a campus-wide Hunger Banquet, a Monthly Swim and Field Day for Special Needs Children, the One Campaign and Films for Change.  There is an increasing interest among our students on Global Issues, Social Justice and Public Policy.  Out of these concerns came a student-led Community Based Research Team which is currently working with the Health Department in our community to eventually provide septic tanks and clean drinking water for low-income impoverished families. 

As summer is coming to an end, we are getting more and more excited for our new freshman class to roll on in and begin a week long orientation before Welcome Week begins.  We plan to take our All-Bonners retreat to a new location, Maryville College's Low Ropes course and camping in Cades Cove!

 

 

ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

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2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

• 2009 Annual Report

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Click here to complete next wiki-based portion of Annual Report.   

 

Student Leadership Planning:

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 Click here for Congress Leadership Plans:

Union Congress Action Planning

 

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

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Serve 2.0

• Staff Point Person for project:  
• Student Point Person for project:  Sonny Whitson; lon.whitson@unionky.edu check out our Union Serves Blog as well!
• Planning to submit mini-grant proposal:  no
• Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status:  http://unioncollegecommonpartners.pbwiki.com/  
• 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!  Love it!
• Need for additional training:  Yes!  Jan 22, 10:30am
• 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)? 
  • Poverty Reduction
  • Economic Growth
  • Hunger and Homelessness 
• Specific topic for issue brief (see Research Guide for help to work with partner in defining):  
  • specific issue brief topic (define by February)
• Lead contact people for project (staff and/or students, community partner agency):
  • names, titles, phone numbers, emails
• See useful links:  PolicyOptions Wiki   |  Campus Implementation Guide

 

PHOTOS

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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.  Please provide a brief caption of the photo.

 

 This is an Image from our 2008 All-Bonners Retreat to Cades Cove near the Great Smoke Mountains National Park. In this image the first year Bonners are to participate in an activity we call Trust Rope. During the Trust Rope, students have to communicate with each other and lift everyone over a rope tied to two tress, thats is about 4-5 feet off the ground safely and under a time limit. During this activity students learn to TRUST others studnets to help get them across safe.