• Pat Donohue, Director, Bonner Center for Civic and Community Engagement | phone 609-771-2548
• Lisa Rich, Graduate Assistant, Bonner Center for Civic and Community Engagement
• Professor Liz Borland, Sociology
• Professor Ruth Palmer, Education                                                                  

Research Guides

• National Issue Brief Guide for TCNJ Bonner Scholar Teams - Spring 2009
• State Issue Brief Guide for TCNJ Bonner Scholar Teams - Spring 2009

Spring 2009 PolicyOptions Issue Brief Assignments: 

• Bonner Scholars:  TCNJ Bonners are organized into 13 issue based teams.  Each team started working on issue briefs in January--focusing on a question that was been identified by their community partner. 
• Bonner Volunteers:  On two dates in February, volunteers gathered in the main library and spent the day working on two issue briefs after hearing directly from two non profit leaders about their needs. 
• Bonner Summer Interns and the Social Media Team further developed and edited the briefs during the summer and the fall of 2009.  They edited the Bonner Team Issue Briefs as well as those generated by Professor Borland's Sociology class.

Completed Issue Briefs: 

• Child Welfare
• Corrections/Overcrowding*
• Corrections: Re-Entry
• Developmental Disabilities

• Education*

• Environment/Community Involvement (2*)
• Homelessness* 
• Homelessness/Employment
• Homelessness/Mentally Ill Population*
• Immigration
• Urban Education/Parental Involvement
• Urban Education - High School/Summer Employment

* Class-Based Projects/Intro to Sociology

Draft Issue Briefs:

• Corrections: Education 
• Housing/Green Construction
• Youth Development /Access to Higher Education