4. Consider your…
• Access to resources
• Visibility and location
• Access to students
• Access and status with
faculty
• Institutional respect
• The potential for building
a culture of service
5. 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;
co-curricular
devaluation
Many campuses
have started
from this
vantage point
6. Some Governance Considerations
Strengths Concerns Other
Academic
Affairs
Build in access
to and
engagement of
faculty; with
care, may be
able to build in
research and
scholarship
Service can be
episodic if only
tied to courses;
must put
attention on
student
leadership; may
miss opportunity
for campus
developmental
model
Having
program
under
Academic
Affairs does
not
guarantee
curricular
change
7. Some Governance Considerations
Strengths Concerns Other
Integrated
Center
May leverage
resources &
change; curricular
and
co-curricular
integration; high
potential for
campus-wide
institutionalization
Coordination
and decision-
making involves
more time &
people; top
down vs.
bottom up
drivers
Many
established
campuses seem
to be moving
here, but
change is still
hard
11. 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
12. Opportunities to Collaborate
Student Life/Affairs
student development
shared training
integrated calendar
student groups / service events
learning communities
19. Opportunities to Collaborate
Academic Departments
CBR & research
courses (designator)
High-Impact Practices (HIPs)
departmental strategies
minor/major
20. • Individual
• Teams (Carnegie or
High-Impact)
• Advisory Boards
• Formalized
Key Strategies for Collaboration
21. • 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
Key Factors for Institutional Support
22. • Strategically build your team—starting
with students
• 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 a core constituency on and off
campus
Recommendations for Building Support
25. • Connects with the mission of
higher education and institution
• Can enable engagement of faculty
and more students in addressing
the needs and wants of community
• Scholarship, research, and
capacity-building projects
• Learning outcomes and measures
Why It's Important & Integrative
26. A Framework and Continuum
Transactional------->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.
27. • Access resources (from Bonner,
Campus Compact, etc.) to offer a
few transactional supports
• Invest in some key
transformational strategies
• Faculty Development
• Students as Colleagues
• Get connected to institutional
alignment strategies
Recommendations
28. • Resource Library
• Assist faculty with site connections and transportation
• Share publication opportunities
• Take to Bonner Conferences; share professional development
• Involve in doing inventories, like Bonner Self-Assessment Tool
• Help faculty members plan reflection and present to classes
• Faculty recognition and awards
• Write letters of reference for tenure portfolios (www.ccph.org)
Transactional
29. • Faculty Development Workshops and Seminars
(Bonner can connect you with people/models)
• Faculty Fellowships (formal role)
• Student Faculty Pairing/Teaching Assistants
(Students as Colleagues)
• Course/Program development support grants
(Mini-Grants for Service-Learning, CBR, etc.)
• Faculty Advisory Boards
• Departmental Strategies
Transformational
31. • Link Bonner Program with
academic study from the get-go
through:
• Cornerstone Activities
• Sequence of courses and high-
impact practices
Final Key Recommendation
32. Example: Link with Cornerstones
Exploration
•
FirstYear
Trip
•
linked with
FirstYear
seminar
Experience
•
SecondYear
Exchange
•
linked with
Service-
Learning
Course or
Learning
Community
Example
•
ThirdYear
International
Trip or
Leadership
Role
•
linked with
Undergraduate
Research
experience
Expertise
•
Capstone
service
placement
•
linked with
Capstone
course
33. Example: Academic Pathway
Exploration
• Lead in course
• FirstYear
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
37. What We’ll Cover
1. How students work with faculty
- Students’ roles
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/students
5. Overcome challenge of unequal power between students
and faculty?
- Students taken serious?
38. Student - Faculty Fellowship Model
Example: Allegheny College
Roles:
- ACES Fellow- Students designed
- Gateway Project
- Values, Ethics and Social Action
Major
39. 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
40. Student Leadership &
Service-Learning Team
Example: Berea College
Coalition of projects model
!!!!
!
Student!
Director!
Program!
Coordinators
!
Team Members!
!
Volunteers
41. Addressing Power Dynamics
- Understand and respect student
voice
- Continue to clarify role of student
- Students learn as they go
- Students tap into faculty for
expertise in discipline/field