Bonner Center for Community Engagement
Mission Statement:
The Bonner Center for Community Engagement facilitates partnerships that:
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Promote community service, civic responsibility, social awareness, and academic scholarship, and
- Advance the college’s motto “not to be ministered unto, but to minister.”
The Bonner Center for Community Engagement is responsible for:
- Co-curricular
leadership programming that promotes the theories and practices of
servant leadership and encourages civic participation.
- Bonner Scholars Program,
a co-curricular scholarship program for students who have demonstrated
active citizenship through service, that offers an intensive experience
in community-based work and leadership development and that focuses on
civic engagement, community building, diversity, international
perspective, social justice, and spiritual exploration.
- Community-based
learning initiatives that offer students experiences outside the
classroom that link course content to practical application of
knowledge thereby promoting the understanding of the intersection of
academic scholarship and service to humanity.