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The University of Louisville Bonner Leaders Program began at the University of Louisville in 2001.  It is housed in our Service Learning Office on campus and is led by our Service Learning Coordinator, Kim Shaver.

 

http://campuslife.louisville.edu/service

http://campuslife.louisville.edu/service/bonner/index.htm

 

Number of Bonner Scholars/Leaders: 17

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award:10

Active in Learn & Serve CBR: Yes 

 

 

KEY CONTACTS

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President: James Ramsey

Bonner Director: Kim Shaver

Phone: 502-852-4333

Bonner Senior Intern: Kristina Tames-Dingman

     Phone: 502-852-7239

Bonner Congress Representatives: Tyler Polston, Sonja Stang

 

 

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

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Recently, a team of Bonner Leaders and staff along with representatives from Campus and Community Partners attended the Summer Leadership Institute in Deland, Florida. Kim Shaver, UofL's Bonner Director, co-presented a session on community gardening.  Toma Smith and Katie Trimble, Bonner Leaders, presented a workshop that examines reflection within Bonner Programs and provided new ideas for campuses to use in their reflection. Gerome Stephens (UofL's Coordinator of Student Leadership), Kim Shaver, and Adam Fiallos (Development Associate for the Frazier International History Museum) presented a workshop which discussed the use of the partnership's Serve 2.0 tools. Finally, Toma Smith and Jardana Peacock (Community Education Coordinator for the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research) presented a workshop which uses Participatory Action Research (PAR) to build partnerships between campuses and community in order to collaborate on research for advocacy, public policy, campaigns, and programs.

 

LINKS (Community and Campus partners, projects, files)

 

UofL Bonner Constitution

• UofL Students: Review the constitution and make note of things you would like to see changed and we will discuss them at the next meeting.
• We will be electing new officers

Americana Community Center

 

 

 

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:

Louisville Congress Action Planning

   

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

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Serve 2.0

• Staff Point Person for project: Gerome Stephens
• Student Point Person for project:  Toma Smith
• Planning to submit mini-grant proposal:  yes - no
• Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status:  created - not created; if yes, provide URL
• Participating in Bonner Video Project:  yes - no
  • Student BVL (Bonner Video Liaison) contact info posted on link: Bonner Video Liaisons
  • Need a Flip Cam? (we can provide one per campus): yes - no
• See useful links:  Serve 2.0 Resource Wiki   |   Mini-Grant RFP

 

BWBRS

• Using BWBRS 3.0: yes
• Need for additional training: no
• 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)? 
  • Immigration and Refugees
• 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.  Provide brief captions if you can.