Bonner Campus Wide Collaboration 7-25-14

• 1. Campus-Wide Collaboration Building the Culture of Engagement

2. What Well Cover Revisiting Governance Collaborating across campus Faculty engagement Students as Colleagues 3. Governance: Where Youre Housed 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 institutions 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 8. Regardless you want Stang Budget Authority Institutionalization 9. Questions? Other ideas? 10. Collaborating Across Campus 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 13. Opportunities to Collaborate Admissions recruitment pipelines selection diversity 14. Opportunities to Collaborate Career Services career advising & training fairs & employment career exploration internships 15. Opportunities to Collaborate Multicultural Affairs diversity training recruitment community relations special projects 16. Opportunities to Collaborate International Affairs study abroad service trips internships training & courses 17. Opportunities to Collaborate Public Relations/IT Department media news & events website branding 18. Opportunities to Collaborate Chaplain/Religious Life service groups vocational discernment advising workshops 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 reects community engagement priorities Key Factors for Institutional Support 22. Strategically build your teamstarting with students Creatively consider new programsfrom more Federal Work Study placements to partnering with national organizations Integrate, integrate, integrate Communicate frequently, positively, and strategically with supervisorsmanage up Build a core constituency on and o campus Recommendations for Building Support 23. Questions? Other ideas? 24. Faculty Engagement 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 oer 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 reection 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 30. Strategic Planning Student Learning Outcomes/Assessment Course designators QEPs/Accreditation Tenure & Promotion Standards Join Bonner High-Impact Initiative (team of faculty, partners, students, and administrators) Institutional Alignment 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 projecttied to Bonner work 34. Utilize model Public Policy Poverty International perspective and issues Issue-based knowledge Place-based knowledge Diversity 35. Students as Colleagues 36. Theory Classroom, Project Design, On Campus 37. What Well 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. Benets 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 eective 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/eld