Rider University

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CAMPUS NAME AND ADDRESS

Rider University

2083 Lawrenceville Rd.

Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

http://www.rider.edu

CAMPUS AT A GLANCE (brief description)

At Rider, we focus on learning that meets your life. We offer personal, purposeful, and engaging experiences that are relevant to you today and to your future. We are a student-centered university emphasizing high quality teaching and learning and a supportive community of dedicated faculty and staff who are committed to your success.

Rider’s rich history has emphasized purposeful connections between academic study and education for the professions – creating meaningful linkages between the classroom and a variety of other learning experiences that will help you build leadership skills and achieve success in life and work.

With roots dating back to 1865, Rider is a private, coeducational university located on 280 beautiful acres on two campuses in New Jersey – one in Lawrenceville and one in Princeton, both within easy driving distance to New York City and Philadelphia.

KEY FACTS

Location: about 45 minutes northeast of Philadelphia, PA and about 1 and a half hours southwest of New York City

Enrollment: 6,000

Other interesting tidbits:

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Name of Campus-Wide Center: Office of Community Service and Service-Learning

Relevant website: http://www.rider.edu/commservice

Type of Program: Bonner Leaders

Year Began: 1999

Bonner Program website:http://www.rider.edu/commservice

Number of Bonner Leaders: 40

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award:30

Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award:

Active in Learn & Serve CBR: Yes

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor: No

KEY CONTACTS

President: Dr. Mordechai Rozanski

Center Director/ Bonner Director: Heather Brisby

Dean of Students: Dr. Anthony Campbell

Bonner Senior Intern: Michael Ciaramella

Community Impact Intern: Chelsea Kovacs

Bonner Congress Representatives: (current) Jaime Szyarto, Michael Wallenburg, Akua Addae

(past) Uchenna Duru, Jidette Francois

Other:

Site Based Team Leaders

Eggert's Crossing Village - Bobbie Parker

El Centro - Nicole Addesso

HomeFront FPC - Ashley Nelson

HomeFront Joy, Hopes & Dreams - Cassandre Wagnac

Mercer Street Friends After School Program - Ashley Richert

Mercer Street Friends Food Bank - Susie Campbell

Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) - Heather Koshar

Trenton After School Program (TASP) - Lindsey Peletier

Project Coordinators: TBD

MORE ABOUT US (our partners, trips, structure, best or unique practices)

The Community Values Statements of Rider University states that "true leadership is derived from service to others". This statement is the basis for the work that takes place in the Office of Community Service and Service-Learning. Rider Community Scholars/ Bonner Leaders are campus-wide agents of change at Rider. They participate in various activies and events throughout the year, in addition to their regular 10 hours a week at their site placement, such as:

Midnight Run - Bonners prepare bagged meals and donations each month for this effort. Each month different student organizations take turns going on the Run itself. Bonners travel into NYC each December to distribute food, clothing, blankets and personal care items to the homeless poor on the streets of New York City. The late-night relief efforts create a forum for trust, sharing, understanding and affection. That human exchange, rather than the exchange of goods, is the essence of the Midnight Run mission.

Lawrenceville Main Street Park Clean Ups - Bonner clean up a local park for the community in the Fall and Spring semester.

"Because We Care, We Share" Girl Scouts program - Bonners run two workshop (one in the fall and one in the spring) where they teach young Girls Scouts about hunger and homelessness and then teach them how to make fleece blankets which are donated to a local shelter or Midnight Run.

Feed the Hungry - students, faculty and staff serve a pre-Thanksgiving meal to over 400 Trenton area homeless.

Thanksgiving Basket collection - Bonners assist in collecting and sorting over 250 thanksgiving basket donations which are then distributed to low-income families in the area.

MLK Days of Service - students participate and lead their peers at various non-profit organizations to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through service projects such as working in a "Free Store" to painting and much more.

Habitat for Humanity - Bonners volunteer for this organization at least once a year helping to build a new home for a low-income family in the area.

International Service-Learning Trips - students have the opportunity to do service abroad in Jamaica, Domincan Republic or Belize completing volunteer work such as teaching in an orphanage, repairing a water filtration system and other repairs or building a hurricane-proof playground and teaching math, English and hygiene, respectively.

First Year Service Trip - Bonner students who just completed their first year in the program go into Philadelphia to do a community rehabilitation project over three days in August.

Second Year Exchange - Bonners students who just completed their second year in the program attend the All Bonner Service track of the Summer Leadership Institute. They get to pick which project the will attend based on their interest. This year, we had students build toys for low-income children; help a refugee family learn how to use American cleaning products in their home; build a wheelchair ramp for a disabled woman to get in and out of her home; and, play games and visit with senior citizens living in a nursing home.

ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

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PHOTOS

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