In celebration of Elaine Wheeler's retirement, we honor her invaluable contribution to the Bonner Foundation. Her commitment and mentorship have been instrumental in our growth as a Foundation and the Network we have today. As she embarks on her retirement, we celebrate her legacy of dedication and look forward to the path she has paved for us.
With over three decades sharing campus examples, guides, and documents to download, the Bonner Foundation is excited to announce a recently updated Bonner Resources Wiki.
This summer, the five National Bonner Summer Interns at the Foundation — Anu Baskar (George Mason ‘24), Camila Guayasamin (The College of New Jersey ‘24), Dominique Dore (University of Houston ‘22), Mikaela Chin (High Point University ‘24) and Selah Ndouta (Capital University ‘22) — worked with the Foundation staff to refresh the look of the wiki’s homepage and, more importantly, update campus examples and other documents.
They devoted particularly attention to the Bonner Program Management and Community-Engaged Learning sections. In addition, Mikaela and Dominique also created a short video on how to navigate this wealth of knowledge.
In celebration of Elaine Wheeler's retirement, we honor her invaluable contribution to the Bonner Foundation. Her commitment and mentorship have been instrumental in our growth as a Foundation and the Network we have today. As she embarks on her retirement, we celebrate her legacy of dedication and look forward to the path she has paved for us.
On July 30 to August 2, the Bonner Foundation welcomed twenty-seven staff and faculty to the Bonner Network during the 2023 New Bonner Staff Orientation hosted at the Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey.
Participants include representatives from sixteen institutions of higher education, including five with established Bonner Scholar Programs, ten with established Bonner Leader Programs, and one school that might start a new Bonner Program in the future.
For over two decades, the philosophy professor and (now former) director of the Univeristy of the. South’s Office of Civic Engagement has been at the center of efforts to push Sewanee’s academic and co-curricular offerings out of the ivory tower and into the community, where they can make a real difference. Read full profile here.
In 2021, Paul Schadewald, Senior Program Director for Community-Based Learning and Scholarship at Macalester College and a Field Leader with the Bonner Foundation and Network, was awarded the NCPH Book Award, along with colleagues Rebecca Wingo and Jason Heppler, for the new book Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy. The NCPH Book Award recognizes outstanding scholarship that addresses the theory and/or practice of public history or that includes the products of public history work. Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy was recognized as the best book about or growing out of public history published in 2019 or 2020. Schadewald works within the Macalester College Civic Engagement Center, a center that was established more than thirty years ago and is home to a Bonner Leader Program.
James Shields ’00 is the Director of the Bonner Center for Community Service and Learning at Guilford. In more than 20 years, James has established new partnerships and helped secure grants to support the work of Guilford students in the community. He has made a difference in hundreds of lives of students, faculty, staff and other Greensboro community members. James is committed to community building, diversity, civic engagement, social justice, international perspective and spiritual exploration and is the epitome of Guilford’s commitment to providing hands-on learning experiences for students to learn critical problem-solving skills to thrive and make a difference as you serve the world's greater good. He received the Guilford College Alumni Excellence Award in 2016 for his work.
Tamara Johnson is the 2018 Civic Engagement Professional of the Year – Emerging Leader Award recipient, as presented by North Carolina Campus Compact.
This award recognizes a higher education administrator in the state who works to realize a campus-wide vision of service, supports the engagement of faculty and students and forms innovative campus-community partnerships. The “emerging leader” distinction is for an honoree who has been at the campus for five years or less.
