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Student Voice Action Team
Student voice and leadership is critical
to an effective Bonner Program as well as other on-campus
community involvement opportunities. You may be most interested
in moving these issues forward if you are from a new program
or an established program with great examples of student leadership
to share with others. Focusing on student voice, this group
of Congress Reps is working onways for all Congress Reps to
assess the strength of student voice within the service programs
on their respective campuses. These Congress Reps are strengthening
the presence of student voice and leadership through key Bonner
components (i.e., community fund, recruiting new Bonners,
and Advisory Council to the program).
At the Bonner Congress Meeting, this
Student Voice team had the opportunity to experience the diversity
of Bonner programs within their group firsthand, converse
with President Wayne Meisel to answer basic questions about
the Bonner Foundation, and to discuss good practices on campus
in relationship to a stronger Student Voice in the Bonner
Program. Roughly, group discussion centered around the following
topics:
- How can we make sure everyone has
access to basic resources about the Bonner Foundation, get
everyone connected?
- We need increased communications
between Bonner schools to share good practices when
it comes to Student Voice on campus
- Perhaps blogging could help this
effort…
- A newsletter or use of the
yahoo listserv
- Forming committees is a good start
to providing student voice within your Bonner Program
- One school even reported on
a committee that is processing the selection of their
new Bonner Coordinator.
- Many of the representatives
valued the time they had at the Congress Meeting to
talk, reflect, discuss and share their experiences with
the Bonner Program because these conversations help
lead to analysis of policies and better implementation.
They noted that even creating spaces and time for this
type of discussion in their own Bonner Programs back
at their school could be an effective tool to improving
Student Voice in the Bonner Program.
What
Happens Next?
We’re hoping to update you on the short term and long
term goals of this Action Team soon. For now, if you’d
like to share more about your experience on the Student
Voice Team and have any comments about how you’re
implementing what you learned at the Congress Meeting on
your campus, please e-mail
Erin Raffety, Co-Coordinator for the Bonner Congress.
Student Voice Campus-Wide
Student Voice in the Bonner Program
Bonner Handbook:
http://www.bonner.org/resources/overview/home.htm
Program overview:
http://www.bonner.org/resources/overview/overview_sd.htm
Community Fund
http://www.bonner.org/resources/overview/overview_cp.htm
Campus Infrastructure
http://www.bonner.org/resources/overview/infrastructure.htm
Program Operations:
Specifically Recruitment, Community
Fund, and Advisory Committee
http://www.bonner.org/resources/overview/org_recruitment.htm
Trainings:
Bonner Implementation Guides (see student
leadership).
http://www.bonner.org/resources/guides/home.htm
Co-Curricular Training Guides:
http://www.bonner.org/resources/guides/cocurricular/cocurricular_home.html
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