Bonner Scholars Students

Bonner Scholars Program

What is a Bonner Scholar?

You’ll regularly find them in five main service areas in Blount County and beyond: adult literacy, children’s advocacy and mentoring, advocacy for the hungry and homeless, healthcare, and global service. During any given year, approximately 60 Maryville College students – all Bonner Scholars – are contributing at least 600 volunteer hours to more than 25 agencies and churches in the community, as well as to programs in Africa and Latin America. In addition to providing scholarship dollars for college, the Bonner Scholars are given skills and opportunities to stretch their minds and stretch themselves in ways they never before imagined.

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Bonner Appeal

Elizabeth McKnight
Currently, Maryville College is in a campaign to raise $2 million to endow the Bonner Scholars Program on its campus. Bonner alumnna Elizabeth McKnight ‘01 has pledged her support of the program, and she has appealed to fellow Bonner alumni to help current and future scholarship recipients “experience the growth, reflection, support, service, hope and life-changing Bonner Love that we experienced.”




Bonner Endowment Student Video

Bonner Promo Video
Current Bonner Scholar Joey Courtney ‘11, a sophomore chemistry major from Knoxville who regularly volunteers with the Boy Scouts of America, put together a video that illustrates the impact the Bonner Scholar Program has on the community and student volunteers.




Annual Bonner Service Trip

Bonner Oasis Video
Seventeen Bonner students traveled to Athens, Ga., to spend five days remodeling a trailer for a family at The Oasis Católico Santa Rafaela, a trailer park which houses roughly 200 immigrant families and is run by three nuns who coordinate a variety of services. They chronicled their trip in this video. For more information, read the story about their trip.




The College has until Aug. 1, 2009 to raise the funds necessary for the match.

For more information on the Bonner match, contact Brandon Bruce in the office of Advancement and Community Relations at 865.981.8191 or brandon.bruce@maryvillecollege.edu.