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ACADEMIC
CONNECTIONS:
RESOURCE HANDBOOK FOR STUDENTS
This whole handbook has grown
out of the work of Bonner Congress Representatives. Students
have met and discussed ways that they can be involved in promoting
academic connections to their service experiences at the 2005
Summer Leadership Institute and November Congress Meeting.
Zack Shaefer, a Princeton Seminary
student is working part-time with Action Team members to move
this initiative forward in 2005-06. Contact him or Ariane
Hoy (staff member) if you want to get involved at zack@bonner.org
or ahoy@bonner.org.
Students Gretchen Mielke of
Dickinson College and Beverly Pfluger of Lynchburg College
helped develop this new set of resources, and we thank them.
FIPSE
Grant to Support Civic Education Academic Certificate Program
The Bonner Foundation is the recipient of
a three-year grant to create a service-honors program integrating
academics and service. The initiative, sponsored in part by
the Fund for the Improvement
of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S.
Department of Education, seeks to facilitate the quality
and intensity of students’ college service experiences
while promoting civic engagement on campus and in the community
through students’ example and influence.
Five diverse institutions of higher education
are part of the primary work-group that have been working
to create courses and build a curricular sequence (in the
form of a major or certificate) that will become the core
of the project. The work team includes participants from:
- Mars Hill College in North Carolina
- Portland State University
- The College of New Jersey
- University of California-Los Angeles
- Washington and Lee University in Virginia
Click to the Overview
to read more. Another group of campuses are working to bring
this initiative to their own campuses.
We are currently working on
new publications and resources to share more broadly with
campuses who would like to learn from the experience of the
pilot group and others who are doing similar work. Please
contact Ingrid Dahl or Ariane Hoy at ingrid@bonner.org or
ahoy@bonner.org |
