Location: About 20 minutes North of Spokane, Washington.
Enrollment: 2,789
BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
Name of Campus-Wide Center: Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement
Type of Program: Bonner Leaders
Year Began: 1999
Number of Bonner Leaders: 24
Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: 0
Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award: 0
Active in Learn & Serve CBR: Yes
Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor: Yes
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: Dr. Beck Taylor
Center Director: Rhosetta Rhodes
Bonner Senior Intern(s): Vacant
Bonner Congress Representatives: Vacant
MORE ABOUT US
Service and Service-Learning Numbers
Center for Service-Learning & Community Engagement
1999 - Present
Hour summary
Total SERVE Trip hours……………………5,700
Total Community Building Day hours…….165,032
Total Service-Learning hours……………...91,868
Total Bonner Leader hours………………...54,580
TOTAL HOURS…………………………..146,448
Student summary
Total SERVE Trip students………………........147
Total Community Building Day students…..5,700
Total Service-Learning students……………5779
Total Bonner Leader students………………...304
TOTAL STUDENTS……………………….11,930
ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
Whitworth University has 24 Bonner students who provided 4,732 hours of service to the Spokane community during academic year 2010-2011.
Of special note, the Whitworth Bonner Leaders co-led the annual Food for Thought: A Community Dinner this year. This event occured during fall as the last event in Spokane's Homeless Awarness Week. The idea for the event was the creation of Katie Pettit, previous Bonner Senior Intern. Katie was speaking one day to a homeless gentlemen who remarked that it would be nice to be able to interact with "regular" people so they could understand that the homeless are like everyone else and shouldn't be feared. Katie and a few other students coordinated the Food for Thought dinner and invited the entire Spokane community to eat and converse together. They walked the streets and passed out invitations to those who are homeless and explained the purpose of the dinner. The event was such a success that they have found sponsors to host the event. This year, they had to turn people away. The lines to enter wrapped around the block. The extensive news coverage has already generated sponsors and participants for noext year.
To teach students about poverty, the Bonner Leaders partnered with another group on campus to creata a life size Candy Land game. A homemade Candy Land game was spread across the floor, with squares containing facts and solutions about poverty . The Candy Land game was held on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. More than 100 students attended the event.
Working with the West Central Neighborhood Partnership, students worked withthe neighborhood to create a Neighborhood Business Associaition as part of the neighborhood's economic development plan. 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.
This year, Whitworth Bonners went to Mobile, Alabama to work with Habitat for Humanity during spring break. Students engaged in service with Habitat for Humanity rebuilding homes. Whitworth students also went to Jamaica this year to run a Vacation Bible School for the Jamaica Christian School for the Deaf, building relationships with the staff and starting construction on a vocational center at the school. The students also spent time at the Blossom Garden Orphanage caring for 100 Jamiacan orphans.
Whitworth Annual Report.
2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
Student Leadership Planning:
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Whitworth Congress Action Planning
SPRING 2010 INITIATIVES
Serve 2.0
- Staff Point Person for project: Rhosetta Rhodes
- Student Point Person for project: Vacant
- Planning to submit mini-grant proposal: no
- Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status: not created
- Participating in Bonner Video Project: 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
- See useful links: Serve 2.0 Resource Wiki | Mini-Grant RFP
BWBRS
- Using BWBRS 3.0: yes (need to make transition soon)
- Need for additional training: yes
- 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: Not using at this time
- 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
PHOTOS
Community Building Day
Alternative Spring Break- MEXICO!
Life Size Candyland Game
Food For Thought: A Community Dinner
Haiti Relief Effort
Peace and Economic Justice Action Conference
