Campus-Wide Collaboration: 2016 Bonner New Directors Meeting
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Transcript of Campus-Wide Collaboration: 2016 Bonner New Directors Meeting
What We’ll Cover
• Reporting Lines & Governance
• Collaborating across Campus
• Faculty Engagement
• Students as Colleagues
Consider…• Visibility and location
• Institutional respect and positioning
• The potential for building a culture of service
• How change happens at your institution
• Access to leadership
Ensure you have…• Access to resources
• Access to students
• Access and status with faculty
• Strong relationships across key departments
• Admissions• Financial Aid• Development• Advancement
Some Governance Considerations
Strengths Concerns Other
Student Affairs
Fit with broader departmental
mission; student-led programs;
larger scale; access to areas like Residence
Life
Fails to become integrated at
institution’s core (faculty); lack of
curricular change;
second class status
Many campuses have started
from this vantage point
Consider building
development model buy-in
Strengths Concerns Other
Academic Affairs
Access to and engagement
of faculty; with care, connect research and scholarship
Service can be episodic if only tied to courses;
must put attention on
student leadership
Having program
under Academic
Affairs does not
guarantee curricular change
Some Governance Considerations
Some Governance Considerations
Strengths Concerns Other
Integrated Center
May leverage resources &
change opportunities; curricular and co-curricular integration
Coordination and decision-
making involves
more time & people; top
down vs. bottom up
Many established campuses
seem to be moving here, but some wait
for vision
Initiative on…
• Staffing • Student leadership
roles • Budget • Authority • Institutionalization • Alignment
Opportunities to Collaborate
Leverage Bonner to build
campus-wide culture
Academic Departments
Chaplain/Religious Life
Public Relations/IT Department
Student Life/Affairs
Career Services
Multicultural Affairs
Study Abroad
Admissions
Opportunities to Collaborate
Student Affairs student development
shared training integrated calendar
clubs & events learning communities
Opportunities to Collaborate
Career Services career advising
professional training networking
fairs & employment career exploration
Opportunities to Collaborate
Multicultural Affairs diversity training
recruitment community relations
special projects
Opportunities to Collaborate
International Office study abroad service trips internships
training & courses
Opportunities to Collaborate
Public Relations/IT media
news & events website & social media
branding e-portfolio
Opportunities to Collaborate
Chaplain/Religious Life other service groups
vocational discernment advising reflection
Opportunities to Collaborate
Academic Departments CBR & research
courses (designator) High-Impact Practices
pathways minor/majors
• Individual
• Teams (Carnegie CE Classification; strategic plan; course designator)
• Advisory Boards
• Formalized
Key Strategies for Collaboration
• Student Learning Outcomes
• Strategic Plan (Center/Institution)
• Bonner Cohort Learning Communities
3 Recommended Methods
• Begin a process to formally articulate a set of SLOs tied to your center
• Examples: Berea, Siena, University of Richmond
• Draw on rubrics and proven levels
Student Learning Outcomes
• Create and manage to a 3- to 5- year strategic plan
• Bonner staff can help facilitate or refer you to external help
• See examples on wiki
Strategic Plan
• Small informal networks of institutions
• Meet at and between meetings
• Share models and plans
• Leverage best practices & funds
Cohort Learning Communities
1.Community Engaged Signature Work 2.Senior Presentations, Outcomes, and
Assessment 3.Faculty Engagement 4.Campus-Wide Student Engagement 5.Food Security 6.College Access 7.PolicyOptions and CBR
Cohort Learning Communities
• Access to and support of senior leadership
• Financial support (i.e., work study, stipends) for students to engage in service
• Visibility in online and written communications (from recruiting to alumni news)
• Faculty engagement and curricular links • Lived mission, strategic plans, and budget
that reflects community engagement priorities
Institutional Support
• Strategically build your team—starting with students—and grow it through ripples
• Creatively consider new programs—from more Federal Work Study placements to partnering with national organizations
• Integrate, integrate, integrate
• Communicate frequently, positively, and strategically with supervisors—manage up
Build Support
• Connects with the mission of higher education and institution
• Enable engagement of faculty and students in addressing community projects – win/win
• Scholarship, research, and capacity-building
• Learning outcomes and measures
Engaging with Faculty & Curriculum
A Framework and ContinuumTransactional------->Transformational------->Institutional Alignment
•Short-term investment •Important and possibly necessary •May not lead to long-term relationships
•Ongoing and repeated•Involve more relationship building & program development
•Involve several faculty members and senior leaders•Can help foster changes to institutional policies and culture.
• Access resources (see Bonner Wiki) to offer basic (transactional) supports
• Invest in key transformational strategies • Liaison strategy • Faculty Development • Students as Colleagues
• Consider how to promote institutional alignment strategies
Recommendations
• Resource library and articles • Assist faculty with site connections and transportation • Share publication opportunities • Take to Bonner and other conferences • Involve in doing self-assessment • Help faculty members with courses (reflection) • Faculty recognition • Write letters of reference for tenure portfolios
(www.ccph.org)
Transactional
• Faculty Development Workshops and Seminars (Bonner can connect you with people/models)
• Faculty Fellowships • Student Faculty Teaching Assistants
(Students as Colleagues) • Course development support
(Mini-Grants for Service-Learning, CBR, etc.) • Faculty Advisory Boards • Departmental Strategies
Transformational
• Strategic Planning • Student Learning Outcomes/Assessment • Course Designators • QEPs/Accreditation and External Reviews • Tenure & Promotion Support • Working on creation of academic pathways
Institutional Alignment
• Link Bonner Program with academic study from the get-go:
• Cornerstone Activities
• Sequence of courses and high-impact practices
Final Key Recommendation
Example: Link with Cornerstones
Exploration • First Year
Trip • linked with
First Year seminar
Experience • Second Year
Exchange • linked with
Service-Learning Course or Learning Community
Example • Third Year
International Trip or Leadership Role
• linked with Undergraduate Research experience
Expertise • Capstone
service placement
• linked with Capstone course
Example: Academic Pathway
Exploration• Lead in course• First Year
seminar• Learning
community
Experience• Government/
policy courses• Poverty courses• Service-learning
(potentially tied to placement)
• Learning community
Example• CBR coursework
(methodology)
• Advanced service-learning coursework
• Undergraduate research
• Public Policy Issue Brief assignments
Expertise• Capstone course /
Senior Seminar
• Undergraduate research
• Honors’ thesis project—tied to Bonner work
Minor
• Public Policy
• Poverty
• International perspective and issues
• Issue-based knowledge
• Place-based knowledge
• Diversity
• What are your current assets and aspirations for faculty involvement with your Bonners or center?
Exercise
What We’ll Cover1. How students work with faculty
2. What training students need to reach colleagues level? - How students are selected - How training is implemented
3. Model or structure (diagram) - How does it build capacity?
4. Benefits to faculty and students
5. Overcoming challenge of unequal power - Role of advising
Student - Faculty Fellow
Example: Allegheny College
Roles:
- ACES Fellow- Students designed
- Gateway Project
- Values, Ethics and Social Action Major
Students Work on Course Design
Example: Siena College - Instructor uses a guide to course design
(online) to teach students how to turn goals to assessment to activities
- Students are paired with faculty - Students are taught how to develop faculty
rapport, and facilitation skills - Students learn to design effective workshops
outside the classroom
Service-Learning or CBR Team
Example: Many colleges - Create a position for Bonners that
involves their work on a range of community engaged learning projects
- issue connections - community-based research
Student Leadership & Campus Wide Engagement
Example: Berea CollegeCoalition of projects model
StudentDirector
ProgramCoordinators
Team Members
Volunteers
Example: Rider UniversityCommunity Service Council
Student Leadership & Campus Wide Engagement
• Club and Org Representative met bi-weekly • Created Combined Calendar of Projects • A student intern managed the council • Assisted with planning the service days
Addressing Power Dynamics
- Nurturing student voice
- Continue to clarify roles
- Students learn as they go
- Students tap into faculty expertise and mentoring