Printer-friendly versionThe Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching will conduct its elective Community Engagement Classification in 2010. An announcement will be made in early January 2010 on the Foundation’s website about the application process and timeline for submission. Applications will be available between Feb. 1 and March 31, 2010, on the website.
The Community Engagement Classification, an elective classification, was established in 2006, and was issued for a second time in 2008. A total of 196 institutions have been successfully classified in Community Engagement. Campuses that have received the classification do not need to reapply in 2010.
Carnegie and the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) have entered into a long-term partnership for the continuation of the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification.
The New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) is a center for inquiry, research, and policy within the Graduate College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. (For more information, visit www.nerche.org) NERCHE will serve as Carnegie’s “administrative partner” for the purpose of managing and administering the Community Engagement Classification process. John Saltmarsh, NERCHE’s director and Amy Driscoll, Consulting Scholar with NERCHE, will direct the administration of the classification process.
The Carnegie Community Engagement Classification defines community engagement as “the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.”
Inquiries about the classification should be directed to John Saltmarsh at (john.saltmarsh@umb.edu) or Amy Driscoll (amym.driscoll@comcast.net).
