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Whitworth University
300 W. Hawthorne Road Spokane, WA 99251
CAMPUS AT A GLANCE Whitworth University is a private, residential, liberal-arts institution affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Whitworth's mission is to provide its diverse student body an education of the mind and the heart, equipping its graduates to honor God, follow Christ, and serve humanity. This mission is carried out by a community of Christian scholars committed to excellent teaching and to the integration of faith and learning.
Since 1890, Whitworth has held fast to its founding mission to "provide an education of mind and heart" through rigorous and open intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated Christian scholars. While some Christian institutions limit discussion of certain ideas or the influence of secular scholarship, Whitworth University encourages tough questions and a fearless pursuit of truth wherever it is found. Whitworth stands out in the higher-education landscape by affirming a grand paradox of intellectual curiosity and Christian conviction as complementary rather than competing values.
KEY FACTS Location: About 20 minutes North of Spokane, Washington. Enrollment: 2,600
BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE Name of Campus-Wide Center: Center for Service Learning Type of Program: Bonner Leaders Year Began: 1999
Number of Bonner Leaders: 23 Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: 1 Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award: Active in Learn & Serve CBR: Yes Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor:
Reading. Writing. Research. Lectures. These are the tools of learning. And at Whitworth University, we use all these and a little more. As an added tool, professors integrate service-learning in the community into dozens of courses across the curriculum as a way to apply course concepts and to engage in critical thinking, creative expression, or structured reflection. You might tutor low-income youth for Educational Psychology or archive museum holdings for Asian American Literature. You may lead drama workshops for mentally ill adults or do something as simple as planting trees. Whatever you do, you'll walk away from your classes with not only a deeper understanding of the material, but with a sense of civic responsibility, and the experience of living out Whitworth's mission – to honor God, follow Christ, and serve humanity.
KEY CONTACTS President: William Robinson Center Director: Rhosetta Rhodes Bonner Senior Intern(s): Glen Guenther Bonner Congress Representatives: Breanne Durham
MORE ABOUT US Service and Service-Learning Numbers Center for Service-Learning & Community Engagement 1999 - Present
Hour summary Total SERVE Trip hours……………………4,300 Total Community Building Day hours…….15,173 Total Service-Learning hours……………...63,829 Total Bonner Leader hours………………...49,848
TOTAL HOURS…………………………..133,150
Student summary Total SERVE Trip students………………........86 Total Community Building Day students…..4,841 Total Service-Learning students……………4,544 Total Bonner Leader students………………...279
TOTAL STUDENTS……………………….9,750
ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES Whitworth University has 19 Bonner students who provided 2216 hours of service to the Spokane community during academic year 2007-2008. Of special note, the Whitworth Bonner Leader program received a $15,000 grant from Campus Compact to implement a student-led Philanthropy Program. The goal of the project entitled Engaging Community; Inspiring Philanthropy was to develop the capacity and desire to carry on a philanthropic tradition. In order to develop and implement the university’s student-run philanthropy, Bonner Leaders participated in a course entitled Introduction to Community Engagement during January 2008, which focused on Philanthropy. The course was linked with a Communications Studies course entitled Organizational Communication. The Bonner Leaders, through the activities in their Jan term course, established a philanthropic foundation based on their needs assessment in the West Central neighborhood, one of the poorest in the state of Washington. They determined critical issues of the neighborhood as well as assets that foster neighborhood empowerment and leadership. The assessment helped the students determine the focus of their philanthropy. They developed funding criteria and an RFP process. RFPs were sent to community organizations identified as non-profits operating in the area of need selected by the students as the focus of the foundation. The students funded to anti-gang initiatives focused on providing activities for youth, childcare and youth employment. Bonner students also led a community development effort with one of Spokane’s lowest income neighborhoods. The West Central Neighborhood Partnership is a collaborative neighborhood revitalization project between Whitworth University and the West Central Neighborhood Council. This community engagement initiative connects students, faculty and course work to address critical need areas identified by the West Central neighborhood organizations and residents. Students engage in activities to address Workforce development and job training, Job creation and retention through business development, and Neighborhood revitalization through the development and adoption of a neighborhood plan to address poverty, housing, community services and facilities within the West Central Neighborhood. Bonner student projects consist of Asset mapping of human/social service agencies within the neighborhood, conducting interviews of agency representatives to determine services offered within the neighborhood, housing Condition Analysis, sidewalk Inventory, assistance with the neighborhood planning process. 2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
Student Leadership Planning: Click here for Congress Leadership Plans: Whitworth Congress Action Planning
SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES Serve 2.0
BWBRS
Bonner AmeriCorps
Issue-Based Research
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