{"id":7062,"date":"2021-04-11T19:52:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T23:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:34:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:34:58","slug":"a-less-is-more-approach-to-community-engaged-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/2021\/04\/11\/a-less-is-more-approach-to-community-engaged-work\/","title":{"rendered":"A Less-Is-More Approach to Community-Engaged Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of a fabulous series highlighting the great work of Bates staff members during COVID, our colleagues in Communications included a feature of our very own Ellen Alcorn, associate director of community-engaged learning and director of our Bonner Leader Program. We share the story in this week&#8217;s blog post.\u00a0While you\u2019re at it, check out <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/co-curricular\/bonner\/\" target=\"_blank\">this fantastic video on the Bonner Leader Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-news wp-block-embed-news\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"VghuE958wp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/29\/help-from-community-engagement-and-tutoring-to-residence-life\/\">Help! From community engagement and tutoring to residence life<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Help! From community engagement and tutoring to residence life&#8221; &#8212; News\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/29\/help-from-community-engagement-and-tutoring-to-residence-life\/embed\/#?secret=bMcWlUS6De#?secret=VghuE958wp\" data-secret=\"VghuE958wp\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a fabulous series highlighting the great work of Bates&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7063,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions\/7063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}