Pre-Conference Gathering with the Bonner Network:Community Engagement & Student Success:

What Works & What’s Next

Welcome and Thank You

Question

• What data, evidence, trends, and models

are driving decision making around

student success and community

engagement at your institution?

Evidence: Student Learning

• Bonner Student Impact and Alumni Survey

• National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)

• High-Impact Practices

• National Survey of Service and Community Engagement

• Retention and Persistence

• Grades and Academic Performance Indicators

Evidence: Community Impacts

• Bonner Web-Based Reporting System (BWBRS)

• Analysis of Issues and Developmental Positions

• Corporation for National and Community Service Metrics

• Capacity-Building and Mentoring

• Internships

• Undergraduate Research

Question

• What are the challenges and

opportunities for integration between

academic and student affairs? How can

or is community and civic engagement

playing a part?

Student & Academic Affairs

• Integrated teams

• Long-range strategic planning

• Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement

• New approaches to Student Development

• Integrated Learning Outcomes and Assessment

Catalysts for Collaboration

• A Crucible Moment

• Bonner High-Impact Initiative

• Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement

• Changing landscape & student body, online learning,

new conceptions of civic engagement

Question

• What networking opportunities and

resources interest you and your

institution? What best practices could

support your institution’s work?

Networking & Resources• Annual Bonner Meetings

• New convenings and partnerships

• Today involving Council of Independent Colleges

• Allegheny College involving Imagining America

• Sewanee involving Associated Colleges of the South

• Publications (Engage)

• Your wish lists?

Where to Learn More

• Bonner Network Wiki: http://bonnernetwork.pbworks.com/

• High-Impact Initiative: Readings & Dropbox

• Finley & McNair (2013, forthcoming). Assessing High-Impact Learning for Underserved Students

• Hoy & Johnson (2013) - Deepening Community Engagement in Higher Education

• Kania & Kramer (2012) - Collective Impact

• Mehaffy (2012) - Challenge and Change

• Musil (2009) - Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility: The Civic Learning Spiral

• Musil (2012) - Remapping Education for Social Responsibility

• Sturm et al. (2012) - Full Participation: Building the Architecture for Diversity and Public Engagement

in Higher Education

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