Campus-Wide Collaboration: 2016 Bonner New Directors Meeting

Campus-Wide Collaboration

Building a Culture of Civic Engagement

What We’ll Cover

• Reporting Lines & Governance

• Collaborating across Campus

• Faculty Engagement

• Students as Colleagues

Governance: Where You’re

Housed

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


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




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

Questions? Other ideas?

Collaborating Across Campus

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


Student Affairs student development

shared training integrated calendar

clubs & events learning communities


Admissions recruitment

pipelines selection diversity

reputation


Career Services career advising

professional training networking

fairs & employment career exploration


Multicultural Affairs diversity training

recruitment community relations

special projects


International Office study abroad service trips internships

training & courses


Public Relations/IT media

news & events website & social media

branding e-portfolio


Chaplain/Religious Life other service groups

vocational discernment advising reflection


Academic Departments CBR & research

courses (designator) High-Impact Practices

pathways minor/majors

• Write and share 3 ideas for how you can bolster collaboration on your campus!

Exercise

• 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

• What cohort learning community makes most sense for you?

Exercise

Questions? Other ideas?

Faculty Engagement

• 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

Students as Colleagues

Theory in Action

•Classroom, Project Design, On Campus

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

• What ways could you engage students in leadership roles with faculty?

Exercise

Campus-Wide Collaboration: 2016 Bonner New Directors Meeting

Education