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Location: about 50 minutes south of Pittsburgh, PA

Enrollment: 2,000

Other interesting tidbits:

 

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

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Name of Campus-Wide Center:  Center for Service Leadership

Relevant website: http://www.waynesburg.edu/?q=Undergraduate_Programs/Service_Leadership

 

Type of Program: Bonner Scholars

Year Began: 1992

Bonner Program website: 

 

Number of Bonner Scholars/Leaders:54

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award:31

Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award:

Active in Learn & Serve CBR:

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certificate/Minor:  have Service Leadership Minor (similar model)

 

KEY CONTACTS

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President: Timothy R. Thyreen

Center Director: Dave Calvario

Bonner Director: Sarah Bedison

Bonner Senior Intern(s): Heather McGuire

Bonner Congress Representatives: Stephanie Leisie, Jared Kephart

Other:

 

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

 

 

Of the 67 Counties in Pennsylvania, Greene County, where Waynesburg University is located, is the 2nd poorest County in our Commonwealth.  The need for sustainable solutions to the challenges facing our rural community is sizeable.  Due to the rural nature of our community and the economic challenges over the last seven decades, generational welfare continues to exist.  This is where our University partners with our community in addressing the challenges and use these learning opportunities to educate our students outside the classroom by addressing real-life situations. 

 

Unique to Waynesburg University is that service-learning is a General Education requirement that all students must fulfill.  Each student must complete 30 hours of community service while enrolled in a one-credit hour service-learning course.  Reflection papers and discussion are part of the course.  Waynesburg also offers a service leadership minor.  The minor consists of 21-25 credit hours.  Waynesburg also offers a service learning added credit.  This is where a student can add a 1-credit hour service project to an existing 3-credit hour course they are taking.  In addition, Waynesburg University offers a number of week-long mission service trips that are open to all students.  During the 2008-09 academic year, 17 mission service trip were sponsored; 11 domestic and six international.  Mission service trips allow students to experience another culture and can be a life-changing experience.  We have a strong partnership with Greene County Habitat for Humanity and have partnered with Greene County Habitat over the last two years on a campus-wide service initiative and built two homes within walking distance of campus.  Students, faculty and staff assisted in building the homes.  Service and the importance of being civically engaged and using the gifts that God has blessed you with is woven throughout a Waynesburg University education.

 

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:

Waynesburg Congress Action Planning

 

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

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Serve 2.0

• Staff Point Person for project:  Sarah Bedison, sbedison@waynesburg.edu - email
• Student Point Person for project:  name - email
• 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
  • 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 - no - comment
• Need for additional training:  yes - no - for whom
• 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)? 
  • general issue area
• 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.