Bonner Campus Profiles


 

 

     PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY

 

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Community Partnerships:

 

 

     Our best community partnership was with the creation of our Pfeiffer Community Mentors Program. Students served 2 afternoons a week in teams at Nazareth Children's Home, Mount Pleasant Elementary School, Stanly County YMCA, Millingport Elementary School, Ridgecrest Elementary, and Wesley Chapel Road UMC Preschool. The Director met regularly (phone, e-mail, or in person) with site supervisors at all sites who also served as wonderful mentors for the student volunteers. There was also a collaboration with the Education department on campus as students were trained in promoting youth development, academic enrichment, and healthy behaviors with the kids at their site. 

     Other community partnerships included Saturdays of Service held with non-profits such as Stanly County Habitat for Humanity, Morrow Mountain State Park, Christian United Outreach, Rowan Helping Ministries, Carolina Waterfowl Rescue Center, Dan Nicholas Park, Wings of Eagle Ranch, Lutheran Senior Home, Stanly County Special Olympics, Stanly County Senior Services, Stanly County Christian Ministries, and Town of Richfield Park.  

 

Student Development:

 



 

 

Cornerstone Activities:

 

 

 

 

Campus-wide Collaboration:

 

 

 

     One successful initiative involving our Bonner Leader program was the development of a living-learning community in our Cline Residence Hall on campus dedicated to promoting the ideals and practices of servant leadership. The primary elements of this program include a residential component, linked academic courses, group servant leader projects, peer-to-peer community engagement, and supportive professional and academic advisors. Furthermore, the collaborative nature of this living-learning community added to the full personal, social, and intellectual development of the student.

     The living-learning community better achieved the mission of Pfeiffer University by focusing student efforts more on service and less on just volunteerism. In the fall semester, students engaged that natural feeling to serve by creating a social justice or civic engagement issue awareness and education campaign and presentation. Participants practiced their aspiration to lead by conducting a group research service project in the spring semester. Students who successfully finished the year received significant experiential learning, a superior residential environment, networking opportunities, university recognition, and increased personal, intellectual, and social development.

     A successful university program is one that accomplishes the mission and vision of the university and becomes ingrained in its culture. It is collaborative and shared among many departments. The Cline Residence Hall living-learning community partners the Francis Center, Residence Life, Communications Department, Student Development, and various other academic departments, alumni, and community leaders. An advisory committee was also created with cross-campus membership designed to provide appropriate direction for this program.

 

Serve 2.0:

 

 

 

     The Pfeiffer University Bonner Leader program (Francis Center for Servant Leadership) has found Facebook to be the most useful. Students check it more than their regular e-mail. By creating fan pages, groups, and announcements, it is easy to use this tool to promote service opportunities on campus.