A Plan of Action Beforethe July Institute

Getting Ready

Getting Your Input

Projects ideas

We’re going to talk about

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Approach & Team

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What You’re In For...

Year 1Intensive strategic

planning & visioning

Putting together

a team

An intense institute

You in a key

leadership role

Leaving the institute

with projects

Year 2Gathering momentum and

resources back home

Expanding the team and

connections

Implementing plans...some

successes, some pitfalls

An intense institute!

Resulting changes and new

plans

Year 3Hopefully, new

supporters, resources,

and players

New tools, including

for assessment and

evaluation

Revisiting long-range strategic plans &

projects

Transformation...

Goal

Levels of Change

Key Recommendations (A Crucible Moment p.31)1. Foster civic ethos across all parts of the campus and educational culture.2. Make civic literacy a core expectation for all students.3. Practice civic inquiry across all fields of study.4. Advance civic action.

To increase the community and civic health (well-being) of communities, our nation, and world by

increasing the sustained, transformative engagement of individuals, organizations, and institutions in ways that contribute to community well-being.

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Strategy

Three-Year Cohort Based Model to:1. Develop staff2. Foster national learning community3. Use data and measurements4. Integrate HICEPs5. Support campus & community change

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Levels of Change

Goal

To increase the community and civic health (well-being) of communities, our nation, and world by

increasing the sustained, transformative engagement of individuals, organizations, and institutions in ways that contribute to community well-being.

Strategy

Tactics 1.Build & support Transformation Teams2.Deploy the NASCE3.Facilitate strategic planning4.Create a series of meetings,

gatherings, and projects 5.Support work through more resources,

meetings, expanding circles.

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Levels of Change

Goal

To increase the community and civic health (well-being) of communities, our nation, and world by

increasing the sustained, transformative engagement of individuals, organizations, and institutions in ways that contribute to community well-being.

To increase the community and civic health (well-being) of communities, our nation, and world by

increasing the sustained, transformative engagement of individuals, organizations, and institutions in ways that contribute to community well-being.

1. NASCE & survey administration.2. Strategic Planning 3. Inventories, Team Organization, Presidential

Buy-in by your campus.4. Spring Planning Retreat.5. Your completion of Strategic Plan 6. Summer Leadership Institute Faculty Track7. Summer High Impact Institute 8. Fall Director’s Meeting

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Levels of Change

Events

Goal

Strategy

Tactics

Your “Away Team”

Two community

partners

Two faculty members (at least 1

senior)

Two students

(consider 1 who lasts)

Two staff members (at least 1

senior)

“Can Do” - “Will Do” - “Team Fit”

Your “Home Team”• Deep, committed community partners

• Additional faculty and departments

• Student leaders who want to take roles (interns, develop projects, etc.)

• Critical administrators (deans, VPAA, provost, president)

Power/Authority

1.Map the stakeholders who have the identities (i.e., roles, positions), power, and knowledge your team needs.

2.Where do members of your team (or supporters) fall?

Identity/Identities

Knowledge/Skills

Think about this...

Weak influencer with

shared purpose.

Weak influencer with

different purpose.

Strong influencer with

shared purpose.

Strong influencer with

different purpose.

Consider influence and purpose...

Now answer these questions...

For example:

• Who is secure? (strategic/support/understand)

• Who else do you need?

• What are the strengths and problems?

• What are the opportunities and threats?

Do we have people who will lend power?

Do we have people to do the work?

Are we leveraging this initiative?

How about opposition?

High-Impact

Practice(s)

HICEPs(multiplier)

RealCommunity Partner(s)

Something happens!

Does the project promote integrative pathways?(Pervasive, deep, integrated, developmental)

Generate at least 3 potential projects!

Think about your strategic plansExamine your the HIPs and HICEPs.

Real Projects

Allegheny and Sewanee’s First Year Seminars [HICEP Multipliers: Place, Humility, Reflection]

Stetson’s work to integrate Junior Undergraduate Research Seminars with community engagement [HICEP Multipliers: Sequence, Collaborative Projects]

Siena’s work to train students as deliberative democracy facilitators, then host campus-wide forum with a focus on thematic community issue [HICEP Multipliers: Inquiry, Capacity, Teams]

Carson-Newmans’ work to build a community development hub for multiple course projects [HICEP Multipliers: Place, Depth, Integration]

Getting Ready for the Institute...

• Finalize your “Away Team” who will attend the Institute

• Build a “Home Team” of broader supporters

• Hold substantive meeting(s) of the High-Impact Team

By the Institute...• Mobilize full support of

senior leadership (ideally one a senior leader should attend)

• Let others know, strategically, what is happening

• Consider identifying a student Bonner High-Impact Intern for the summer

• Increase visibility & support

Team and others identify and make the changes needed to carry out projects (i.e., new

committees, leadership positions, reward structures, funding)

Some of the team works on partnerships, for example how Bonners, students, and staff are

working with partners or the site.

Team meets and work on projects

Plan for after July

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2

3

Senior LeadershipWhat buy-in and support do you need to achieve from senior leadership?

•Explicit announcements of support

•Rewards

•Participation on team

•Presentation to cabinet

•Campus-community meeting

Strategically leverage and gain visibility

How can you build awareness in a way that creates positive momentum and buy-in?

•Faculty and center meetings

•Student-led efforts (on and offline)

•Face to face, online, & social media

•Publications (recommended)

•Community processes

Have a substantive meeting (or 2) with team

How can you build trust and investment (balancing results, process, & relationships)?

• Do/review HIP/HICEP inventories

• Social time and team building

• Discussions of the context and issues (how change happens)

• Identify roles individuals want to play

• Generate those 3 potential projects!

MonthTeam

CreationBuy-in Visibility

Team Readiness

April

May

June

Work on a calendar with these ideas...

Getting your input for the July Institute...

Process

Strategic Planning Work

Time?Guidance?Coaching?

Content

Workshops?Programming?

Presenters?Topics?

Structure

of each day?of the week?

free time?of group sharing?