Bonner High Impact Planning RetreatBonner Foundation • Princeton, NJ • March 23-24, 2013

Purpose:• To collaboratively engage Bonner High-Impact Initiative project leaders in

contributing to the design and structure of the 2013 High-Impact Institute and how

the project is carried out.

• To provide relevant education, models, and processes for project leaders to

effectively lead and manage broader teams through a complex institutional change

initiative to develop projects that integrate high-impact practices and community

engagement.

• To build a sense of teamwork and begin to foster a national learning community

amongst participating institutions and national partners, including representatives

of Cohort 1 and Cohort 2.

Retreat Objectives

By the completion of the High Impact Planning Retreat, participants will be able to:

• Articulate the vision and strategy of the High-Impact Initiative, especially to others back on campus and in the

community, their “home teams,” in ways that propel momentum and support.

• Gain increased understanding of how the high-impact initiative connects to other current themes and trends in higher education, such as themes articulated in “A Crucible Moment.”

• Be introduced to institutional change frameworks, particularly the theory of change embedded in the Carnegie

Classification as administered by the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE).

• Reflect on and think about the conditions and strategies for deepening and broadening community

engagement on one’s campuses, as well as one’s leadership and management approaches support this.

Register Online

Details:• Participants can register for the retreat on the wiki. Use the link to get started. You will be asked to

provide contact information, travel information and other pertinent details.

• Lodging will be provided at Erdman Center at Princeton Seminary. Erdman Center is located at 20

Library Place, Princeton, NJ—about a five minute walk from the Bonner Foundation at 10 Mercer Street.

Meals during the retreat will also be provided. See addition details on the Logistics & Travel page.

Bonner High Impact Planning RetreatBonner Foundation • Princeton, NJ • March 16 to 18, 2012

1:00 pm on Registration and check-in at Erdman Center, part of Princeton Theological Seminary. The Erdman Center is located at 20 Library Place, Princeton, NJ 08540.

You can walk to the Bonner Foundation at 10 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ, about five minutes away.

• Lodging will be provided at the Erdman Center

• Here, you can find a map and directions

2:00 pm — 3:30 pm Opening Session: The High-Impact Initiative

• Presentation and discussion

3:45 pm — 5:30 pm Being Architects and Leaders for Institutional and Community Change

• Presentation and discussion

5:45 pm Reception at the Bonner Foundation followed by dinner

We will depart the office at 6:15 pm to travel to a restaurant in Princeton.

SATURDAY MARCH 23

• Allegheny College

• Berea College

• Berry College

• Carson-Newman College

• Saint Mary’s College of California

• Sewanee—The University of the South

• Siena College

• Stetson University

• Washburn University

Participating Institutions of Higher Education:

Bonner High Impact Planning RetreatBonner Foundation • Princeton, NJ • March 16 to 18, 2012

• Davidson College

• DePauw University

• Guilford College

• Lynchburg College

• Mars Hill College

• Oberlin College

• The College of New Jersey

• Ursinus College

• Wagner University

• Warren Wilson College

Cohort 1Began in 2012

Cohort 2Beginning in 2013

8:00 am — 9:00 am Full Breakfast at the Princeton Seminary Dining Hall

9:00 am — 10:00 am Introducing the High-Impact Community Engagement Practices (HICEPs) with a Cohort Networking Hour

We will introduce the HICEPs and provide an opportunity for individuals to work through a self-assessment tool with them. Additionally, each cohort will have a chance to meet, share their self-assessments, and provide feedback on how best to utilize these, especially in project planning at the retreat.

10:00 am —10:15 am Break. Coffee, tea, and snacks available

10:15 am — 11:15 am Preparing to Facilitate Using the Strategic Planning Framework— Princeton Seminary

We will explore the planning framework to be used by the teams, share facilitation strategies, and discuss how best to prepare for the Summer Institute.

11:15 am — 12:15 pm Presentations by Cohort 1— Princeton Seminary

Some of the campuses involved in Cohort 1 will present about their projects and lessons learned. Brief presentations by:

• Allegheny College - first and second year seminars, community text, undergraduate research center

• Sewanee-University of the South - first year place-based seminars

• Siena College - deliberative democracy campus-wide forums tied to courses

• Washburn - community partner kiosk on campus and new curriculum design

12:15 pm — 1:15 pm Lunch and Cross-Cohort Networking— Get lunch in the Dining Hall followed by joining a table conversation.

Allegheny, DePauw, Davidson, Mars Hill (Table 1)

Siena, Stetson, Guilford, TCNJ, Ursinus (Table 2)

Berry, Washburn, Wagner, Warren Wilson (Table 3)

1:30 pm — 3:00 pm Preparing for the July Institute — Princeton Seminary

This session will engage participants in strategizing and creating work plans for spring 2013.

This session will also enable participants to provide recommendations for the content, process, and structure of the Institute and Initiative.

SUNDAY MARCH 24

We will end by 3 pm

Logistics & Travel

Lodging:• Lodging will be provided at Erdman Center at Princeton Seminary. Erdman Center is located at 20 Library

Place, Princeton, NJ—about a five minute walk from the Bonner Foundation at 10 Mercer Street.

• When registering, please provide any relevant requests. We will provide as many singles as we can; same

gendered participants from a campus may need to share a bathroom or room in some cases.

• Other lodging options may be arranged by you. We recommend using an online booking agent, such as

www.kayak.com (which searches all discount sites).

Meals:• Meals during the retreat will also be provided. This includes dinner in town on Saturday night, breakfast and

lunch on Sunday.

Getting to Princeton:• If you will fly, Newark International Airport or Philadelphia International Airport are both about an hour from

the Bonner Foundation and Princeton. Southwest Airlines flies into both locations. Kayak (www.kayak.com)

allows you to search all discount sites at once, except Southwest.

• Newark is to the north (41 miles) and has a train, operated by New Jersey Transit, which runs 2 or more times

each hour. Visit www.njtransit.com to find schedules between Newark Airport and Princeton Junction. We

can pick you up at Princeton Junction.

• Philadelphia Airport is to the south (55 miles). You can take a SEPTA Train into Philadelphia, then transfer to

another train (New Jersey Transit or Amtrak) from Market Street Station to Trenton. This is a bit more complex,

so we would recommend a rental car or shuttle (see below) if you don’t want to make these changes with

baggage.

• As noted in emails, if you will arrive at Newark or Philadelphia Airport by 11:45 am on Saturday, we will have

one vehicle make a pick up. Contact Ariane Hoy if you are interested in this pick-up.

• Shuttle service can be arranged via Olympic Airporter from either airport into downtown Princeton. Visit

http://olympic-limo.com/ or call 800-822-9797.

Bonner High Impact Planning RetreatBonner Foundation • Princeton, NJ • March 16 to 18, 2012

Readings & Discussion

Part of the purpose of High-Impact Initiative is to equip you, as leaders of change,

with key ideas and frameworks. We ask that participants skim the following before

attending the High-Impact Planning Retreat. (For those of you in Cohort 1, most

were part of last year’s preparation). Click on the links to access publications via

online pdfs (all are on the wiki). We will also email a dropbox with copies.

A Crucible Moment:

College Learning and Democracy’s Future, by The

National Task Force on Civic

Learning and Democratic

Engagement - Chapter 4

Democratic Engagement White Paper, by John

Saltmarsh, Matt Hartley, and

Patti Clayton

Full Participation: Building

the Architecture for Diversity... by Susan Sturm,

Tim Eatman, John Saltmarsh,

and Adam Bush

High-Impact Educational

Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them,

and Why They Matter, by

George D. Kuh

Linking High-Impact Practices and High-Impact

Community Engagement, by

Ariane Hoy

Navigating the Power Dynamic Between

Institutions and their

Communities, by Byron P.

White

Stanford Social Innovation

Review: Collective Impact, by John Kania and Mark

Kramer

The Scholarship of

Community Partner Voice, by

Sean Creighton

Why Faculty Promotion and

Tenure Matters to Community Partners, by

Elmer Freeman, Susan Gust,

and Deborah Aloshen

Advance Preparation

Bio (Submit with Registration): Before attending the retreat, please make sure to submit a short bio in your registration form. Also, With

nearly 20 schools in attendance, we won't have time for each school to make detailed presentations.  So, we

are relying on you to submit your bio(s) so that we can put together a good roster.  

Slide Preparation:We would also like each person to email one slide about your institution. This should include the following

elements:

• name of your institution and campus center

• pieces of your center and/or campus mission statement (that are relevant)

• number of students you serve (and other distinctive elements should you choose)

• team leader name(s) and position(s)

• photo(s) as desired

• listing of a few high-impact practices and (potentially high-impact) community engagement programs/

connections (for Cohort 1, this can include a synopsis of your year one projects)

Email Ariane Hoy at ahoy@bonner.org by March 21, 2013 including this document in a pdf format.

To make preparing this slide quicker and easier, we have created a template, which is on the wiki or in the dropbox in two formats:  Power-Point or Keynote for Mac users). You may want to download fonts from the

dropbox or dafont.com first. Of course, you are free to personalize the style (photos, color, etc.) but the slides

will help us get similar information on each school.

Mental Notes:

Project Brainstorms: Before you come to the July 8-12 Institute, we would like teams to have met and

begin to brainstorm potential high-impact projects. So, for the retreat, we also ask you to make a list of 2-4

projects that might occur (think about the high-impact practices and the structure of your community

engagement programs).

For Cohort 1: your projects should build upon the projects in year one. In particular, be ready to describe the

status of year one projects and how year two projects will move community engagement to be deeper, more

pervasive, more integrated, and developmental.

For Cohort 2 (just joining): your list should be a brainstorm of 2-3 high-impact practices and how you might

connect them to community engagement. A guidepost will be a project that will make community

engagement deeper, more pervasive, more integrated, and developmental at your institution and in the

community. We will be discussing this in more detail.