1. The Bonner Program:
Student Development
“Access to Education,
Opportunity to Serve”
A program of:
The Corella & Bertram Bonner Foundation
10 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ 08540
(609) 924-6663 • (609) 683-4626 fax
For more information, please visit our website at www.bonner.org

2. Student Development & Training:
Overview
• Visionary Goals
• Intentional Learning Outcomes
• Training & Enrichment Calendar
• Roles & Work Plan
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3. Student
Development
Goals

4. Student Development:
Experiential Learning Cycle
1. Concrete
Experience
2. Reflective
observation
3. Abstract
conceptualization
4. Active
experimentation
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5. Student Development:
Outcomes
Knowledge
Values
Skills
Experience
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6. Student Development:
Example Goal — Global Citizen
Understanding
Commitment to and analysis of
lifelong active poverty & how to
citizenship address it
‣ voting through policy
‣ public education ‣ policy research
Can lead civic
engagement
on campus
‣ project
Have served management
locally,
nationally,
internationally Can apply civic
‣ cultural skills in broader
competencies contexts
‣ critical thinking
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7. Working Session
• What are the visionary
goal(s) you want to see in
your students by the time they
graduate?
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8. Bonner Model

9. Student Development:
Service Road
Expertise
specialist
Example
site/project coordinator
Experience
regular volunteer
Exploration
occasional volunteer
Expectation
application process & orientation
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10. Integrated Model:
Curricular & Co-Curricular Approach
Expertise
Through Service
(Developmental placements,
learning through action) Example
Experience
Co-Curricular Activities
(Training & Enrichment,
Reflection, and Advising)
Exploration
Expectation
Academic linkages
(Service-learning, CBR, minor,
major & certificates)
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11. Student Development:
Skill Areas
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12. Student Development:
Skill Areas
Personal Skills
• Active listening
• Balance/boundaries
• Communication
• Decision making
• Organization
• Planning
• Time management
• Goal setting
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13. Student Development:
Skill Areas
Personal Skills Leadership Skills
• Active listening • Conflict resolution
• Balance/boundaries • Delegation
• Communication • Planning
• Decision making • Public speaking
• Organization • Running a meeting
• Planning • Teamwork
• Time management • Working with diverse
• Goal setting groups
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14. Student Development:
Skill Areas
Personal Skills Leadership Skills Professional Skills
• Active listening • Conflict resolution • Budgeting
• Balance/boundaries • Delegation • Evaluation/research
• Communication • Planning • Event planning
• Fundraising
• Decision making • Public speaking
• Grant writing
• Organization • Running a meeting
• Marketing / public
• Planning • Teamwork relations
• Time management • Working with diverse • Mediation
• Goal setting groups • Networking
• Public education /
advocacy
• Volunteer
management
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15. Student Development:
Common Commitments
Community International
Building Perspective
Social
Diversity
Justice
Civic Spiritual
Engagement Exploration
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16. Student Development:
Resources — on Bonner Network Wiki
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17. Student Development:
Resources — on Bonner Network Wiki
Introduce and
engage students
Find training
modules,
reflection
activities,
and samples
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18. Student Development:
Knowledge
• Public Policy
• Poverty
• International perspective and issues
• Issue-based knowledge
• Place-based knowledge
• Diversity
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19. Student Development
Knowledge — Academic Connections
• Intensive
• Multi-Year
• Developmental
• Course
Connections
• Minor, Certificate,
Concentration
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20. Student Development
Knowledge — Academic Connections
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21. Student Development:
Cornerstone Activities
Expertise
Senior Capstone:
culminating leadership
project coupled with a
reflective developmental
Example focused presentation
Junior Leadership:
engages students in
applying their skills and
knowledge while
Experience
Second Year deepening their own
Exchange: leadership in the process
deepens students
Exploration understanding and
First Year Trip: exposes broader
exposes students picture
to an issue or area
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22. Student Development:
Training & Enrichment — Example Sequence
Expertise
• Academic Research
Example
• Career planning &
• Leading inquiry & vocation
reflection • Evaluation
• Personal and civic • Networking
values
Experience • Project coordination • Public Speaking
• Critical thinking • Fundraising & Grant • Skills for lifelong
involvement
Writing
• Diversity • Honors’ thesis project—
• Group dynamics & • Advocacy skills tied to service
Exploration communication • Academic Connection
• Community • Project planning • CBR course—Public
knowledge Policy Issue Briefs
• Introduction to social
• Personal exploration issues/civics
• Setting goals • Government course
• Time management
• Active listening
• Teamwork
• Poverty course
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23. Working Session
• What skills, knowledge
areas, and practices will your
students need to fulfill the
visionary goals?
• How do these learning outcomes
evolve developmentally?
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24. Calendar

25. Training & Enrichment:
Types of Meetings
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26. Training & Enrichment:
Types of Meetings
Group Meetings:
✓ All Group Meetings
✓ Class-Based Meetings
✓ Site-Based Team Meetings
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27. Training & Enrichment:
Types of Meetings
Group Meetings:
✓ All Group Meetings
✓ Class-Based Meetings
✓ Site-Based Team Meetings
Meeting content:
✓ Training
✓ Reflection
✓ Project Planning
✓ Administrative
✓ One-on-One
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28. Fall 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year
Bonner 101 & Community Introduction to Civic BHAGs: Setting Big Hairy
Orientation Partner 101 Engagement Learning Circle Audacious Goals
Week 1 Site-Based Team Meetings
Introduction to Effective Leading Learning Circles: A Hearing the Call: Listening to
Week 2 Communication
Action Planning
Train-the-Trainers Approach Your Inner Voice
Week 3 All Bonner Meeting
Community Asset Mapping Bridging the Gap Between Vocation: Board of Directors
Week 4 part 1
Budgeting
Service, Activism, and Politics
Week 5 Site-Based Team Meetings
Intro to Effective
Community Asset Mapping Facilitation 202: More Introduction to Spiritual
Week 6 part 2 (involving partner)
Communication: Do You Hear
Techniques and Strategies Exploration
Me?
Week 7 Site-Based Team Meetings
Community Asset Mapping Advocacy 101: Tools for
Week 8 part 3 (campus assessment) Political Engagement
Get-Out-the-Vote Evaluation
Week 9 All Bonner Meeting
Time Management: Managing Conflict Resolution: Steps for Tuesdays with Morrie
Week 10 by Calendar
Handling Interpersonal Building Coalitions: Part 1
Discussion
Dynamics
Week 11 Site-Based Team Meetings
Building Coalitions (part 2:
Time Management: Managing Facilitation 101: Roles of
Week 12 by Calendar Follow Up Effective Facilitators
application for campus Personal Vision: Creating One
project) or Grant Writing
Week 13 Site-Based Team Meetings
Vocation: “The Bridge Builder” Personal Vision 2: Follow up &
Week 14 Setting Service Objectives Group feedback session
poem and reflective discussion Building Shared Vision
Week 15 All Bonner Meeting

29. Spring 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year
Community building | Common commitments | Reflection & visioning | Workshops: Cover Story, Four Corners (changing
Retreat questions), River Stories/Introduction to Community Building, Leadership Compass
Week 1 Site-Based Team Meetings
Service-Based Reflection: How Citizenship: Rights, Resume Writing &
Week 2 It Supports Making Service Lobbying 101 Responsibilities & Struggles or
Interviewing Skills
Meaningful Introduction to Social Justice
Week 3 All Bonner Meeting
Fishbowl Discussion: Defining Building a Personal Network
Week 4 Your Communities
Leadership Compass Public Speaking
Week 5 Site-Based Team Meetings
Research related to First Year Resume writing workshop Advocacy 201: Meeting with Preparation for Senior
Week 6 Trip (Career Services) an Elective Representative Presentations of Learning
Week 7 Site-Based Team Meetings
Groups Within Groups: Facilitation 201: An Intensive Seeing Through Employers’
Week 8 Exploring Dimensions of
Introduction
Building Career Networks
Eyes: Group Resume Game
Diversity
Week 9 All Bonner Meeting
Gender 1: Building Gender Gender 2: Deepening Gender
Week 10 Awareness Awareness
Building Career Networks Senior Resume Review
Week 11 Site-Based Team Meetings
Ethnocentrism: Exploring & Preparing a Leadership
Week 12 Racism: Deconstructing It
Tackling It
Homophobia: Countering It
Transition: Want Ads
Week 13 Site-Based Team Meetings
Vocation: “So What do you
Fraying at the Edges: Stress Vocation: Guided Reflections Last Words: a Reflection on
Week 14 Management 101 for Recommitment
do?” personal exploration
My Life
exercise
Week 15 All Bonner Meeting

30. Training & Enrichment:
Campus Examples
• Donna Russell, Oberlin College
• Savannah-Jane Atkins, Stetson University
• Matt Cheney, Carson-Newman College
• Walt Tennyson, Rhodes College
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31. Working Session
• With your goals in mind, draft your
training & enrichment calendar
• Use sample as a resource
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32. Training Staff

33. Training & Enrichment:
Who? When?
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34. Training & Enrichment:
Who? When?
• Who will lead sessions?
• Bonner staff
• Experienced Bonner students
• Faculty & other campus staff
• Community partners
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35. Training & Enrichment:
Who? When?
• Who will lead sessions?
• Bonner staff
• Experienced Bonner students
• Faculty & other campus staff
• Community partners
• When will they be scheduled?
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36. Training & Enrichment:
Who? When?
• Who will lead sessions?
• Bonner staff
• Experienced Bonner students
• Faculty & other campus staff
• Community partners
• When will they be scheduled?
• Collaborative calendar planning
• Road Map Planning Tool
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37. Training & Enrichment:
Assessing Your Current Status
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38. Training & Enrichment:
Assessing Your Current Status
Stages of development
‣ Just getting started
‣ Adapting current structure
‣ Strengthen, integrate
‣ Expand campus-wide connections
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39. Training & Enrichment:
Resources — Bonner Network Wiki
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40. Training & Enrichment:
Resources — Training Modules
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41. Training & Enrichment:
Resources — Videos
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42. Working Session
Draft your roles & work plan
for student development
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