University of California-Berkeley

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CAMPUS NAME AND ADDRESS

University of California, Berkley

110 Sproul Hall #5800, Berkeley

CA 94720

http://berkeley.edu/

 

CAMPUS AT A GLANCE (brief description)

Instructional programs at the undergraduate level transmit knowledge and skills to students. At the graduate level, students experience with their instructors the processes of developing and testing new hypotheses and fresh interpretations of knowledge. Education for professional careers, grounded in understanding of relevant sciences, literature and research methods, provides individuals with the tools to continue intellectual development over a lifetime and to contribute to the needs of a changing society.

 

KEY FACTS

Location: 1 hour from San Jose

Enrollment: Approx. 24,000 students

Other interesting tidbits: 30% of students are eligible for Pell Grants....60% of students have at leat one parent born in another country...

 

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Name of Campus-Wide Center: Cal Corps Public Service  Center

Relevantwebsite: http://publicservice.berkeley.edu

 

Type of Program: Bonner Leaders

Year Began: 2002

Bonner Program website: http://students.berkeley.edu/osl/calcorps.asp?id=1102

 

Number of Bonner Leaders: 40

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: 35

Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award: 0

Active in Learn & Serve CBR: 2

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor:  

 

KEY CONTACTS

President: Mark Yudof

Center Director: Mike Bishop (Acting Director)

Bonner Director: Minh Dang

Bonner Senior Intern(s): Chloe Valencia

Bonner Congress Representatives: TBD

Other:

 

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

 

In 2008-09 our 40 Bonner Leaders worked directly at more than 40 service sites, and supported partnerships with another 180-200 service sites.  Program highlights from the past year include:   

 

I. For the second year, incorporating a Healthy Communities Project into the Bonner Program.  Returning Bonner Leaders made up our Student Leadership Team and besides planning and leading our Mid-year Retreat in January, advised first-year Bonners on completion of this capstone social action project as part of their training and development.

 

II. Developing our Oakland Community Builders internship program, coordinated by two Bonner Leaders, that places students with grassroots community organizations while helping these student learn teh theory behind community organizing.

 

III. Placing 20 Bonner Leaders at nonprofits and school sites to serve as volunteer managers, whose role is to recruit and lead reflection for other Cal students.  Cal Corps staff led a training for the 20 site supervisors in August.

 

IV. Year three of community-based research (CBR) initiative incorporating CBR projects into Cal in Local Government Internship Program placements.

 

 V. Developing a local Community Advisory Committee to provide input into Bonner programming and assist the Center with site selection, student training, and measuring our impact on the community.

 

VI. Cal Corps continued its 10-year commitment to rebuilding the Gulf Coast by:  

 

 

1)      Transitioning the Bonner Leader Gulf Coast Organizer position to 2 Magnolia Project Student Director positions;

 

 

2)      Continuing with a Community Advisory Board in New Orleans and placing 7 interns with 5 member organizations in summer 2009;

3)      Supporting a fourth Alternative Break to New Orleans, coordinated by 2 Bonners;

4)      Supporting the third year of Magnolia Project, which brought 45 student volunteers to New Orleans for 3 weeks of service in summer 2009; and 

5)      Moving forward with our plans for a semester-long exchange program with The University of New Orleans that includes 20 hour/week community based research internships.  This includes our past Senior Bonner, Alice Chamberlain, recruiting 10 faculty members to serve as field studies advisers to potential Cal interns. 

 

 

ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

 

2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

 

2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 

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

 

Student Leadership Planning:

 Click here for Congress Leadership Plans:

Berkeley Congress Action Planning

 

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

Serve 2.0

  • Staff Point Person for project:  Carrie Donovan - carriedonovan@berkeley.edu (3 people have been involved in grant creation)
  • Student Point Person for project:  TBD
  • Planning to submit mini-grant proposal:  Done!
  • Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status:  not created now, but is able to build out UC Berkeley's website ; http://students.berkeley.edu/osl/calcorps.asp?id=4079
  • Participating in Bonner Video Project:  yes, as part of Serve 2.0
    • Student BVL (Bonner Video Liaison) contact info posted on link: Bonner Video Liaisons
    • Need a Flip Cam? (we can provide one per campus): Additional cam needed (Center has one)
  • See useful links:  Serve 2.0 Resource Wiki   |   Mini-Grant RFP

 

BWBRS

 

Bonner AmeriCorps

  • Please list the contact information of the staff and student interns who manage your AmeriCorps Paperwork:  Mong Vang (mongvang@berkeley.edu)
    • 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)? 
  • Specific topic for issue brief (see Research Guide for help to work with partner in defining):  
    • Will add more detail as this emerges from course facilitated by students (below)
  • Lead contact people for project (staff and/or students, community partner agency):
    • Mike Bishop and Suzan Akin (staff)
    • Casandra Salgado - casandra@berkeley.edu and Sonam Dabholkar - sonamdabholkar@berkeley.edu, both Bonner Leaders coordinating Cal in Local Government Internship Program
  • 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.

 

 

 

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