Friday, June 5 • Agenda

Remember you must pre-register for each event!

Note: If you prefer to use a “printed agenda” to review the SLI programming and register, download and use this pdf version of the June 4-5 Agenda. The embedded links should also take you to the right Zoom pre-registration pages. Thanks!

11:00 AM - 11:55 AM EST
Yoga and Meditation

In this session, we will explore two of the Common Commitments: Wellness and Spiritual Exploration! Though the discipline has existed for thousands of years, yoga has recently been popularized as a leading form of mental and physical exercise. By promoting a healthy balance between our body, mind, and spirit, individuals who partake in sessions reap the benefits of a holistic workout, reduce their stress levels, improve vitality, and much more. Everyone is welcome, whether it'll be your first time exploring the practice or your hundredth. Join us for this morning session and start your day off on the right foot. Make sure to pre-register to join.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST
Elective Workshop Webinars (Block 2)

Here's the Friday noon line up of session titles at a glance. You can read the full descriptions and presenters titles using the links on the left sidebar. Find one to attend and click on the title to pre-register. 

• Character Strengths to Ignite Leadership Capacity and Build Resilience

• Community-Engaged Learning: Fundamentals of Course Design

• Creating Brave Spaces for Tough Dialogue: A Conversation with the Founders of Interpoint 

• Open Space Conversation: Impact of COVID-19 and Moving Our Work Forward

• How to Bridge the Generation Gap

• Peer Health Exchange: The Power of Near Peers in Driving Impact in Health Education

• Public Service in a Complicated World: How Grad School Can Prepare You to Serve in the New Normal of Global Needs

• Summer Project Incubator: Building an Online Interdisciplinary Research Internship Program

• The Light at the End of the Pipeline: A Catharsis for Staff Navigating the Bonner Pipeline and Leadership Transition

• #TreatYoSelf: Deconstructing Self-Care in a Modern Age

• Virtual Internships: Adapting High-Impact Experiences in the Time of COVID-19

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM EST
Elective Workshop Webinars (Block 3)
The third, and final, block of workshop webinars. You can read the full descriptions and presenters titles using the links on the left sidebar. Pre-register for one!

• Birmingham Southern College's Distinction Programs: Academic Pathways for Engaged Learning

• Campus-Wide Community Engaged Scholarship & Learning: Developing a Culture of Engagement From the Bottom Up

• Hypocrisy in the Common Commitments: The State of Undocumented & DACA Students in the Bonner Network

• Morehouse College's Bonner Scholars Selection Process and Expectation

• Navigating the Graduate School Admissions Process and Ask Me Anything with Admissions 

• Online Learning & Action with Omprakash: Global Social Impact Internships, Local Engagement, Digital Storytelling, and More

• Preparing Your Statement of Purpose for Graduate School

• Resilience and Relationships: Building, Implementing, and Sustaining Development Initiatives that Bear Fruit

• Teaching Tools for Keeping the “Community” in Virtual Community Engaged Learning Environment

• The Value of Service in Business

• You Can’t Vote by Zoom Call: Planning for Student Voter Engagement in a Pandemic

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST
Community Engaged Capstone, Reflection, and Learning Showcase
You’ll hear from Bonner Seniors sharing their experiences as part of a culminating reflective presentation or discussing their capstone projects. You’ll hear from faculty talking about their community engaged teaching, research, and scholarship. Find a cluster of student and faculty presentations that interests you. Presenters include a mix of students and professors from institutions across the Bonner Network! You can read the full descriptions and presenters titles using the links on the left sidebar.

• Addressing the Prison Industrial Complex

• Community-Engaged Learning to Improve Health

• Examining Issues of Equity and Justice through Community-Engaged Learning

• In Partnership for Children: Embedding Trauma Training and Community-Based Competencies in Child Development Curriculum

• Leaving a Legacy by Building Organizational Capacity

• Strengthening Their Bonner Programs through Capstone Projects

• Student-Led Research on Town-Gown Relations

• Writers-in-the-Community Training and Residencies

4:30 PM - 6:30 PM EST
2020 Celebration: A Special Event!

The Bonner Network is something to celebrate - come rain, come shine, and year round! Don’t miss this opportunity to share in the Bonner Love as we take a look at all of the positive work we have accomplished as a network of students, partners, campuses, and communities. Besides marking the beginning of our 30th year, we will pause to reflect and celebrate with the Class of 2020 from across this network of 65 colleges and universities. Participants must register to this commemorative event, so click here to do so!

• Amy Michael and Claudio Mir, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey) will perform 

• Matthew Bryant Cheney, Carson Newman College (Jefferson City, Tennessee) will sing 

• Janel Wirley, University of Tampa (Tampa, Florida) will dance

• Featuring inspirational remarks by four student keynote speakers, all members of the Class of 2020, including Nicole Bialick from University of Richmond; Sydney King from Christopher Newport University; ; Yuncheng Ni from Sewanee – University of the South; and Nitan Shanas from Rutgers University – Camden

• Finally Ronald Crutcher, President of the University of Richmond (Richmond, Virginia) will preside over the Class of 2020 Celebration