The Bonner High-Impact Initiative

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We hope to build a national learning community amongst the participating institutions and partners

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Introductions...

what brings you here today?

Where this idea came from...

listening to our network

Origins of the Initiative✤ Staff Development✤ Partner

Development ✤ Campus Change✤ Data

✤ Student Impact✤ NASCE

Student Impact

✤ Four years are significant

✤ Proven skill learning (developmental model)

✤ Commitment to social justice

✤ Dialogue across difference

✤ Structured and unstructured reflection

✤ The importance of mentors

✤ Civic-minded professionalism

Longitudinal assessment involving 25 campus programs; pre and post assessment

Data—National Assessment of Service & Community Engagement✤ Developed by Siena Research

Institute as a gauge of institutional engagement

✤ Implemented by 35+ institutions

✤ 14K completes—now the largest national data set on civic engagement

✤ Telling findings—more than half of students are never engaged

✤ Average POP score - mid 20’s

✤ Structure matters

Unrealized Potential in Higher Education: NASCE

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Origins of the Initiative✤ History of work on

academic connections—✤ CBR✤ FIPSE✤ AAC&U

✤ Vision—to be on cutting edge

Change in Higher Education

✤ Financial challenges✤ Structural changes✤ Performance crisis✤ Higher education at

a Crucible Moment

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Change in the Non-Profit Sector

✤ Increased demand✤ Shrinking resources✤ Increasing non-profit

mergers✤ Campus-community

partnerships need strategies and tools to measure their contribution and social impact

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Engaged Learning—A Part of the Solution

•Generated from the Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) Initiative, a project of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)

•Proven to be effective with higher than expected student learning and success, especially with under-represented students

•All of them can connect with community engagement

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Engaged Learning—High Impact Practices (HIPs)

~ first year seminars~ common intellectual experiences 

~ place-based education~ learning communities 

~ writing-intensive courses~collaborative assignments & projects 

~ undergraduate research~ diversity/global learning 

~ internships & project-based learning~ service-learning & community-based learning

~ capstone courses & projects13

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Engaged Practice—High Impact Community Engagement Practice (HICEPs)1. PLACE2. HUMILITY3. INTEGRATION4. DEPTH

4. DEVELOPMENT5. SEQUENCE6. TEAM

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7. REFLECTION

8. MENTOR

9. LEARNING

10.CAPACITY

11.EVIDENCE

12.IMPACT

✤ We envision the transformation of higher education to more fully embrace their public purposes.

✤ We envision the transformation of organizational partners and communities through the thoughtful engagement of civic agents.

✤ We envision structural change at institutions and within organizations because of the strategic integration of engage learning and community engagement.

✤ We envision campus-community partnerships that are characterized by democratic engagement.

High-Impact Initiative Vision

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High-Impact Initiative Players

Students Communities

Institutions Partners

The space for High-Impact Projects

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...A beautiful fractal20

Goal

Levels of Change

Key Recommendations: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 through transformative partnerships, at home and abroad. A Crucible Moment p.31

To increase the community and civic health (well-being) of American society by increasing the sustained, transformative engagement of individuals (undergraduates and alumni), organizations, and institutions in ways that contribute to community well-being.

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Goal

Strategy

Levels of Change

Three-Year Cohort Based Model to:1. Develop Staff2. Build National Learning Community3. Use Data and Measure Impact4. Scale the HICEPs5. Catalyze Campus Change6. Support Community Change

To increase the community and civic health (well-being) of American society by increasing the sustained, transformative engagement of individuals (undergraduates and

alumni), organizations, and institutions in ways that contribute to community well-being.

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Goal

Strategy

Tactics

Levels of Change

1. Build & support Campus Change Teams2. Deploy the NASCE on all campuses3. Facilitate strategic planning gatherings4. Support work of Campus Change Teams

across the year through calls, visits, resource generation, and accountability checkins.

5. Create a series of meetings, gatherings, and projects that move the work forward on an annual basis.

To increase the community and civic health (well-being) of American society by increasing the sustained, transformative engagement of individuals (undergraduates and

alumni), organizations, and institutions in ways that contribute to community well-being.

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Goal

Strategy

Tactics

Levels of ChangeTo increase the community and civic health (well-being) of American society

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

Events

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1. NASCE & survey administration on your campus.2. Strategic Planning sessions on your campus.3. Inventory, Team Organization, Presidential Buy-in by your campus.4. Spring Planning Retreat in Princeton.5. Follow-up post-retreat planning on your campus.6. Summer Leadership Institute Faculty Track at Carson-Newman.7. Summer High Impact Institute in June at Siena.8. Fall Director’s Meeting in November at Kanuga.9. President/Provost/Dean retreat in Spring 2013.10. Planning Retreat 2.0 in Spring 2013.

Six Pathways

✤ Develop staff✤ Scale high-impact community engagement

practices (HICEPs)✤ Use data-driven design & impact measurement✤ Build a national learning community✤ Inform and catalyze institutional change✤ Inform & catalyze community change

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High-Impact Practice HICEPs Community

Partner(s)Community

Change

Choosing and designing your High-Impact Project(s)

Does it help create integrative, institutional pathways (change)?(pervasive, deep, integrated)

Developing Conceptual Framing for the Projects

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Campus/organizational change to support HICEPs

Partnership development and community work

Streams flowing from the Summer High-Impact Institute

Projects linking HIPs and HICEPs

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