Antioch College Service Programs

Located in the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom

The Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom is the central resource area for any student, faculty or staff interested in community service opportunities, service learning, and the Bonner Leader and Antioch Community Scholar programs.

Through our service programs at Antioch, we recognize the powerful intersection between service, learning, empowered communities, and social change.

We provide technical support for service-learning and community service placements. We also provide professional development opportunities for students, faculty, staff and community partners, as well as network opportunities with local, state, regional and national organizations.

Bonner Leader and Antioch Community Scholar Programs

Bonner Leader Program

The mission of the Bonner Leaders Programs is to transform the lives of students and members, the life of their campuses, their local communities, and the world through service and leadership. The Bonner Program is designed to heighten the overall education students and members receive by asking them to engage in ongoing service work and helping them develop the experience, skills, knowledge, and values necessary to make that work meaningful and lasting.

Antioch Bonner Leaders might serve as tutors and mentors at Medway Elementary School’s after school programs with children of migrant workers or as logistics assistants at a local home for the elderly. Tecumseh Land Trust provides students with opportunities to work on sustainability and smart growth. Antioch Bonner Leaders take regular group trips to Cincinnati to work with the Northside Rehabilitation Project.

As part of the Bonner Program's Student Development Model, students also participate in regular training and reflection activities with one another and with service program support staff.

Bonner Leaders have access to a pool of community funds, which can be used to assist with projects travel, or other service related needs.

Each Bonner Leader will receive one service stipend of $2500 which can be used to help fund a service-oriented co-op or project.

For more information about the Bonner Foundation and the National Bonner Leader Program:

http://www.bonner.org/campus/blp/home.htm

If you are interested in applying for Antioch’s Bonner Leader Program:

Bonner Leader Application 2007-2008

Antioch Community Scholar Program

Each year a committee convened by the Coretta Scott King Center selects 8 Bonner Leader applicants who have shown exceptional leadership qualities and dedication to service. These 8 students will receive financial aid packages which meet 100% of demonstrated need. In addition, the total cost of each student’s education may not exceed that which is allowed under the Stafford Loan program (currently $17, 350 over a 4 year period).

As part of scholarship requirements, Antioch Community Scholars contribute ten hours of service weekly. They also participate in regular training and reflection activities with one another and with service program support staff.

Students who are economically disadvantaged and/or underrepresented are prioritized for this award.

If you are interested in applying for the Antioch Community Scholar Award, remember that you must also apply to the Bonner Leader Program to be considered for this award.
Antioch Community Scholar application

For information on either program, contact:
Ona Harshaw
oharshaw@antioch-college.edu
937-769-1164

Community Responsibility Scholars

The Community Responsibility Scholars (CRS) are selected from the incoming class each year based on their past demonstration of community involvement. They receive a $5,000 to $10,000 renewable annual tuition reduction, and are strongly encouraged to continue to be actively involved in College's governance system, select work-study positions, and/or local community agencies.

Service-Learning

Service learning is an educational strategy that employs community service combined with reflection to enrich and enhance student learning in co-curricular activities, co-op and classroom.

Community Responsive Curriculum

A Community Responsive Curriculum links the curriculum with community, and encourages students in direct, academically-based problem-solving on social issues. It requires that students become educated in the problems of society; experience and understand first-hand, social issues in their community; attain the experience and skills to act on social problems.

Irwin Altman (2004), Socially Responsive Knowledge

Antioch Literacy Corps

The Antioch Literacy Corps (ALC) provides trainings and placement for Antioch students as tutors with children ages 3-17 in a variety of settings in Yellow Springs, Dayton, Xenia, Medway, New Carlisle and Springfield. All students are eligible for this program.

A History of Service at Antioch

The Bonner Scholarship was brought to Antioch College in 1992 as part of the national community service scholarship of the Bonner Foundation. The Center for Community Learning was established in 1997 at the request of the Bonner Scholars who recognized a need for a central resource area for community service. In 1998, Antioch obtained a grant through OCC to receive an Americorps*VISTA, who established the Antioch Literacy Corps (ALC) with funding from the America Reads Initiative. The AmeriCorps Bonner Scholarship Program was introduced in 1998 as well. The Community Responsibility Scholarship (CRS) was established at Antioch College in 1999 to recognize the importance of community service at Antioch, and was expanded in 2001. In 2000, an OCC VISTA service-learning coordinator established an initiative to educate and help coordinate service-learning projects on campus. Presently, a majority of Antioch students participate in service activities either through scholarship commitments, classroom responsibilities, or personal commitment.