The Bonner Foundation’s Community-Engaged Initiative is going strong in its third year. Thirty-five institutions are leveraging grants and endowment funds to integrate community-engaged learning (CEL) in a wide range of projects and programs across the campus.
More than 200 faculty members have been involved in cohorts on their campuses. These faculty have worked in collaboration with local, state, national, and international partners on courses, degrees, innovative programs, and institutionalization.
Community-Engaged Learning Courses
More than 173 community-engaged learning (CEL) courses have been integrated into the fabric of institutions’ curriculum. This year alone, thirty-nine courses from sixteen schools are being redesigned or created as a part of the initiative to integrate community-based learning, or policy analysis as a pedagogical model. Many courses are also part of emerging and established pathways and degrees with a public purpose.
Click here to search the Bonner Community-Engaged Learning Course database.
Community-Engaged Learning Infrastructure
Twenty-one infrastructure projects involving fifteen institutions are being implemented to strengthen and deepen campus-wide efforts for community-engaged teaching and learning. The projects are designed to create sustained systems necessary for campus-wide integration. They include: the development of course designators or full campus inventories of existing CEL courses; the creation of reports documenting benefits of community engagement; the integration of systems to identify and track partner requests; and engaging Students as Colleagues to work with faculty as teaching assistants.
Click here to search the Bonner Community-Engaged Learning Infrastructure database.
Bonner Pathways Project
Six schools have joined the new Bonner Pathways Project, designed to scale community-engaged learning across the curriculum. Engaging teams that include senior academic leaders, faculty from multiple departments, administrators, and student leaders, these institutions hope to design multiple pathways through general education, discipline-based majors, minors and concentrations, and other integrative pathways for community-engaged learning.
Faculty Fellows
CEL Faculty Fellows ‘21-22
Thirty-two faculty from sixteen schools are serving as Faculty Fellows, working closely with community engagement staff at respective institutions to catalyze institutional change. Faculty Fellows are building relationships across departments and units on campus; developing new resources for faculty for engaged scholarship; advocating for financial incentives and rewards for faculty promotion and tenure; designing innovative programs; and serving as mentors for engaged students, especially as they work on their capstone-level projects.
Click the links below to read profiles of the faculty fellows and descriptions of their projects and roles: