HOSTED BY ALLEGHENY COLLEGE AND THE BONNER FOUNDATION

in partnership with partners and coaches from Association of American Colleges and Universities, NERCHE and our broader network

Civic Scholars:Engaged Campuses

Promoting cultures and practices for high-impact community engagement & scholarship

March 21-23, 2014also the 2014 Bonner High-Impact Initiative Planning Retreat

Lodging& Logistics

Getting to Meadville, PAAllegheny College is a 540-acre campus located

in the city of Meadville, a community that offers the history and natural beauty of northwestern Pennsylvania. Founded in 1788, the downtown district of Meadville is on the National Register of Historic Places. A metropolitan area with a population of 50,000, Meadville, Pennsylvania is approximately 30 minutes from I-90 and I-80, and a few miles off I-79. The Meadville Area (pop. 30,000) is 90 minutes north of Pittsburgh, two hours east of Cleveland and two hours southwest of Buffalo.

The county seat of Crawford County, Meadville offers easy access by interstate highway, recreation areas and regional attractions. Meadville also offers plenty of “local flavor” with local restaurants and shops. Flights are available into airports in Pittsburgh (about 90 minutes) or Erie (about an hour).

AccommodationsWe have arranged a block of rooms at two

places. Use “Allegheny College” when booking:

Holiday Inn Express 18240 Conneaut Lake Rd, Meadville, PA 16335(814) 724-6012$89 per nightReserve by March 6th, 2014

Hampton Inn11446 N Dawn Dr, Meadville, PA 16335(814) 807-1446 $109 per nightReserve by February 29th, 2014

Other lodging options include a variety of hotels and local establishments, such as:

• Econo Lodge at (814) 724-6366 ($60)• Mayor Lord's House Bed and Breakfast

at (814) 720-8907 ($65)• Quality Inn at (814) 333-8883 ($70)

We recommend you search an online booking agent such as Google, Hotels.com or Priceline.

Address for Your Smart DeviceAllegheny College520 N Main StMeadville, PA 16335

Directions to the Campus Center1. Travel on I-79 to Exit 147. Continue on Route

322 East. Take the Park Avenue Exit on the right.

2. Follow Park Avenue for seven traffic lights to North Street and turn right (Burger King on the right).

3. At the next traffic light, turn left onto North Main Street (go past Country Fair).

4. Continue straight through the next traffic light, veer to the right, and continue up the hill.

5. Turn right onto East College Street. At the next stop sign, turn left onto Highland Avenue. The Henderson Campus Center is on the left.

Friday, March 21

2:00 pm on

To registration, visit the third floor of Henderson Campus Center. We recommend parking on Highland Avenue.

Henderson Campus Center

3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

Meeting for Incoming cohort High-Impact Initiative team leaders Veteran team leaders also welcome to attend. Meetings with Ariane Hoy, Mathew Johnson, and representatives from the Allegheny College High-Impact Initiative team.

Henderson Campus Center

Room 303

4:30 pm to 5:45 pm

Context: Integrative Pathways for Civic Learning & Community EngagementA session to introduce who we are, why we’re here, and what we’re working to build

Henderson Campus Center

Room 301-302

6:00 pm to 7:45 pm

Reception and Dinner Banquet A special welcome by Linda DeMeritt, Provost at Allegheny College

“Institutional Alignment and the Power of Integration: Boyer, Bonner and the Purpose of Liberal Education” Keynote presentation by Thomas McGowan, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Rhodes College

Tippie Alumni Center

8:00 pmto 9:30 pm

Evening reception and casual networking Tippie Alumni Center

Agenda

Saturday, March 22Morning Breakfast on your own

8:45 am to 10:30 am

Aligning Structures, Policies, and Practices for Full Engagement: Visions and ExamplesPanel presentation will explore what an engaged campus–including by faculty, community, and students–is featuring: Stephanie Martin, Thomas McGowan, Paige Missel, Caryn McTighe Musil, and John Saltmarsh

Henderson Campus Center

Room 301-302

10:30 am Break Snacks available

10:45 am to 12:00 pm

Models, Experiences, & ToolsAttend a workshop to go deeper:

•.... Innovative Strategies for Promoting Alignment around Community Engaged Learning by Caryn McTighe Musil, Ariane Hoy, and Mathew Johnson

•.... A Collaborative Paradigm for Teaching and Learning: Implications for Students, Faculty, and Community Partners by John Saltmarsh, Dave Roncolato, and Jamé Johnson

Henderson Campus Center

Room 301-302

Arnold M106

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Lunch Catered buffet lunch will be outside the room

Room 301-302

1:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Strategy Work and Charettes: Campus Mapping and Self-AssessmentAssessing our Institutional Cultures, Policies, and Practices

Learn about tools and frameworks for self-assessment such as the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement, Campus-Community Partnerships for Health FIPSE Assessment Tool, and A Crucible Moment’s matrix

Henderson Campus Center

Room 301-302

1:45 pm to 2:45 pm

Strategy Work and Charettes: Campus Mapping and Self-AssessmentBuild Your Plan for Change: Who, What, Where, How Often, to What End

Henderson Campus Center

Room 301-302

Agenda

Saturday (continued)2:45 pm to 3:00 pm

Break Refreshments and snacks available in hallway

3:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Expanding a Toolkit for Campus and Community Change: Exploring and sharing tools that can support our work in enhancing institutional and cultural change such as:

• Campus cultural change and language• Outcomes and assessment• National networks, publications and conferences• Local/campus structures, committees and strategies• Rewards, awards, and publication opportunities

Participants continue on “Plans for Change” and sharing through exchange

Henderson Campus Center

Room 301-302

Breakout spaces:Room 303Room 206Arnold M106

4:30 pmto 5:00 pm

Open Space DialoguesParticipants and coaches can suggest topics for discussion.

Henderson Campus Center Rooms

5:00 pm Break and departure for Stone United Methodist Church for community dinner. Please arrive at church by 6:00 pm.

Locations:

Stone Methodist Church956 S. Main StreetMeadville, PA 16335

Bethel AME Church961 Liberty StreetMeadville, PA 16335

6:00 pm Dinner

7:30 pmPlay

Community Dinner and Special Dramatic Presentation about Meadville’s History with the Underground Railroad and Civil Rights MovementDinner will be at Stone United Methodist Church.Performance will be at Bethel AME Church (one block away). Reception will be held at Founder’s House after play. All are within short walking distance.

Locations:

Stone Methodist Church956 S. Main StreetMeadville, PA 16335

Bethel AME Church961 Liberty StreetMeadville, PA 16335

On Saturday night, participants will attend a special presentation of a play developed by Allegheny student and Bonner Scholar Katie Beck which tells the story of

Meadville’s role in the Underground Railroad. This was also Beck’s capstone.

Sunday, March 23

morning Breakfast on your own

9:00 am to 10:15 am

Strategic Dialogue: Distributed Leadership and Working Effectively within Institutional Cultures and HierarchiesFacilitated by Caryn McTighe Musil

Henderson Campus Center

Room 301-302

10:15 am to 10:30 am

Break Snacks available

10:30 am to 11:15 am

Assembling a Plan and Leveraging Opportunities to Advance ChangeFinal work on plans and dialogue about what teams are taking away and how best to move forward.

During this time, there will also be some structured rotations for “Critical Friends Feedback” between different campuses and additional time for the team leaders of the incoming cohort of the Bonner High-Impact Initiative to meet.

Henderson Campus Center

Room 301-302

Breakout:

Room 303

11:15 am to 12:00 pm

Looking Ahead and Closing Reflections Henderson Campus Center

Room 301-302

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Themes and Approach:

Who Shall Attend:This meeting is designed to support small teams (of faculty

and administrators primarily) who are working to design and carry out transformational changes in support of community and civic engagement within their institutions and communities. In particular, this meeting is geared at institutions that are part of networks–like the Bonner High-Impact Initiative–that are working to foster the creation and sustainability of cultures, infrastructure, policies, and practices that support deep, integrated, and pervasive community engaged scholarship and action. A key focus will be on identifying the barriers and strategies for successfully supporting greater integration and engagement of faculty and students as public scholars, in the service of local communities.

For teams who are joining the Bonner High-Impact Initiative in 2014, part of the agenda will be tailored to provide you an opportunity to interact with and learn from peer institutions, including from Allegheny’s broader High-Impact Initiative team. In the spirit of supporting a national learning community and collaboration, Allegheny College and the Bonner Foundation welcome others small teams of faculty and administrators from across the Bonner network as well as other higher education networks who are interested in promoting deeper integration of community engaged learning and civic engagement within their institutional cultures and structures.

Our approach will be experiential, inviting participants to engage with the themes, wrestle with models and strategies, and walk away with strategies and ideas to pursue on their own campuses and within their communities. For institutions that have been part of the Bonner High-Impact Initiative, this meeting is aimed to support continued work to forge greater institutional and faculty investment and engagement in integrating deep, pervasive community engaged learning and practice. We aim to:

• Engage in rich dialogue and sharing about the conditions and actions that facilitate deeper and more pervasive community engagement, public scholarship, and institutional commitments

• Focus, in particular, on better understanding faculty culture and identifying the opportunities and barriers for more fully transforming scholarship and teaching as “democratic community engagement”

• Examine and learn from frameworks and examples – such as campus mapping, policies, and other strategies–and engage in applying these to one’s own context

• Provide an opportunity to formulate action plans and strategies that support transformation in one’s own campus and community context

Meetings will be held at Allegheny College’s campus, located in Meadville, Pennsylvania. See the page on

lodging and logistics for additional information.

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Moving Our Work

Forward

Bonner Scholar Larry Hailsham from Allegheny College and Bonner Leader Jackie Lennon from Siena College share perspectives on why student leadership is critical to

deepening community engagement at the 2012 High-Impact Institute.

Supporting Transformation of Campus-Community Partnerships

The partnerships that are producing this gathering have been catalyzed by an effort to support greater civic learning and engagement. In 2012, the Bonner Foundation launched the High-Impact Initiative as one of its strategy to advance community-engaged scholarship and practice. This initiative built on decades of work with campuses to create an integrated strategy for student learning, campus-wide cultures of engagement, and community partnerships and impact.

Through concerted work, the teams of administrators, community partners, faculty, and students have been working to make community engaged learning and practice deeper, pervasive, and more integrated, while using a developmental approach.

Kazi Joshua, Allegheny’s Director of Multicultural Education and Instructor in the Values, Ethics, and Social Action (VESA) program discusses strategies for propelling democratic, high-impact public engagement.

The initiative addresses a number of strategic aims: (1) staff and faculty development; (2) forging greater curricular, co-curricular, and community integration; (3) supporting community partner leadership and capacity, (4) focusing on models for collective impact and community change; and (5) building a national learning community. The initiative aims to transform institutions to build high-impact democratic engagement, which may be characterized as:• one in which all stakeholders (faculty, partners,

students, and staff) produce valued knowledge and provide solutions;

• build and practice collaborative, reciprocal relationships and engage in addressing needs;

• position the institution as just one of the key constituents in building and sustaining healthy communities and our democracy.

As teams work to design and carry out their projects, they have raised the need for greater attention to challenges and effective models for:

★ faculty engagement and development★ institutional structures, awards & rewards★ aligning faculty and community cultures★ new models of learning and scholarship

that fit within a broader effort for community change. These are some of the themes we’ll address at this meeting.

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Engage and learn from coaches and peers

Caryn McTighe Musil is the Senior Scholar and Director of Civic Learning and Democracy Initiatives at the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Until November, 2012, she was the Senior Vice President of Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives. Under her leadership, the office mobilized powerful and overlapping educational reform movements involving civic, diversity, global learning, women’s issues, and personal and social responsibility. Dr. Musil has special expertise in curriculum and faculty development. Dr. Musil is currently directing a multi-project national initiative, called Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement. Dr. Musil was lead author of A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy's Future. She has written and edited numerous articles, including Remapping Education for Social Responsibility: Civic, Global, and U.S. Diversity (2011) and Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility: The Civic Learning Spiral. Caryn has been a coach for the Bonner High-Impact Initiative since 2012.

John Saltmarsh, Director of the New England Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) at University of Massachusetts Boston and a faculty member in the Higher Education Administration Doctoral Program. He leads the project in which NERCHE serves as the partner with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for Carnegie’s elective Community Engagement Classification. He is the author, most recently, of an edited volume “To Serve a Larger Purpose:” Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education (2011) and a book with Edward Zlotkowski, Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (2011), co-author of the Democratic Engagement White Paper (NERCHE, 2009), as well as numerous articles. He is a member of the National Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement, has served as a National Scholar with Imagining America’s Tenure Team Initiative. John has been a coach for the High-Impact Initiative since 2012.

Thomas McGowan, Associate Professor and Chair of the Anthropology and Sociology Department at Rhodes College. Tom was a service-learning pioneer at Rhodes, where he began his career as a sociologist in 1988. He developed an intergenerational program, the Rhodes College Life Histories Project, which allowed students to deconstruct their internalized assumptions regarding aging through interaction with Memphis elders. This project led him to a career-long interest in the theory and practice of service-learning. Tom has been directly involved in faculty professional development and the revision of college policies related to the tenure and promotion of community engaged faculty. His recent research led to the development of the term community-integrative education (CIE) to describe a wide range of pedagogical strategies that intentionally seek to integrate student intellectual and personal (psychosocial) development through reference to off-campus student experience (i.e., fellowships, internships, service-learning, community-based learning, participatory action research and study abroad). This research includes the development of the Faculty Initiative on Integrative Education at Rhodes, in which external funding will be used to support enhancing this work.

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Join Our Communities of Best Practice

For Institutions in the Bonner Network

If your institution is part of the Bonner High-Impact Initiative, your team leader should attend. Additionally, we recommend that you identify a faculty member and/or academic administrator to attend this meeting. Institutions who are not part of the High-Impact Initiative but who are interested in these topics may also send representatives. We request that institutions send 2-3 individuals. The cost will be $100 per person to cover meals and meeting expenses (with Bonner covering part).

Your institution will need to cover the costs of travel and lodging. Beyond that, the Foundation will cover the costs of the meeting itself and the meals that are provided. We are investing in this meeting as both an important step in our preparation for the High-Impact Institute and as valuable professional development for administrators and faculty in our network.

For Other InstitutionsIf your institution is not part of

the Bonner Network, you may also attend. Your institution will need to cover the costs of travel and lodging. Beyond that, the costs of the meeting will be $150 per person. Again, we invite small teams to attend. Note: Total attendance will be capped for this meeting at 80.

This gathering will intentionally reach across several regional and national networks to involve scholars and practitioners who are interested in advancing community-engaged learning and practice. While the Bonner Foundation, Allegheny College, and our partners will play a key role in organizing it, we hope that participants from several networks will join us. We also invite campuses in the Imagining America and Campus Compact networks.

The Bonner High-Impact Initiative CohortsThe Bonner High-Impact Initiative is working to catalyze and

support a three-year developmental strategy for campus teams involving faculty, administrators, students, and community partners at higher education institutions to develop high-impact educational practices that are integrated with high-impact community engagement. Three cohorts will be represented at this gathering, such as representatives from: Allegheny College, Berry College, DePauw University, Earlham College, Emory & Henry College, Mars Hill College, Oberlin College, Rider University, Siena College, Sewanee-University of the South, Stetson University, The College of New Jersey, Ursinus College, Warren Wilson College, Washburn University, Washington & Lee University (considering), Waynesburg College, Widener University, and Wofford College.

The Teagle Network & Regional InstitutionsWe also welcome faculty and others involved in the Teagle

Foundation’s Systematic Assessment of Student Learning in Community-Based Learning Programs. The project began in 2008 with three schools Franklin & Marshall, Niagara University and Rhodes. It has grown to include at least seven other schools including Allegheny, Hobart and William Smith, Ithaca, Nazareth, Stonehill, Flagler, St. Mary's University (Texas). Finally, participants from regional institutions such as Edinboro University, Gannon University, Mercyhurst University––part of a decade old consortium, Lake Effect Leaders: An AmeriCorps VISTA Project––may be in attendance.

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Map of Campus