Carnegie Elective Classification Series

About the Series

The Carnegie Elective Classification Series centers the classification as a tool for people-centered systems change in higher education. In particular, the Elective Classification for Community Engagement provides institutions with an opportunity to assess principles and practices of public purpose and to promote transformation by co-defining challenges, identifying promising practices, and co-creating goals and outcomes as counteraction (or resistance) to exploitative practices and distrust of democratic practices. This series brings the application to life with in-person, community-based examples of the types of mutually beneficial and cooperative partnerships that are at the heart of the Carnegie Elective Classification.

Each workshop will assist campuses that are applying for the Elective Classification for Community Engagement, including an orientation to both the classification and reclassification frameworks, an explanation of additions and changes to the documentation framework, a review of the documentation framework and complete application, and a discussion of strategies that have been effective for successful applications as a means to demystify the application process.

Past Events

Community Engagement Workshop at Sam Houston State University

August 10 to 11, 2023

Generously hosted by Sam Houston State University.

Community Engagement Workshop at the University of South Florida

May 18, 2023 and May 19, 2023

Generously hosted by the University of South Florida.

​Carnegie Community Engagement Workshop for HBCUs and PBIs at Stillman College

March 28, 2023 and March 29, 2023

Generously hosted by Stillman College.

​Carnegie Community Engagement Elective Classification Workshop at Northeastern University

November 9, 2022 and November 10, 2022

Generously hosted by Northeastern University’s Office of City and Community Engagement.

​Carnegie Community Engagement Elective Classification Workshop at DePaul

November 2, 2022 and November 3, 2022

Generously hosted by DePaul University’s Steans Center for Community-Based Service Learning.

​Carnegie Community Engagement Elective Classification Workshop at UCLA

October 27, 2022

Generously hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles’s Center for Community Learning.


Speakers
Marisol Morales - Executive Director, Carnegie Elective Classifications -
Marisol Morales
Executive Director, Carnegie Elective Classifications
Carnegie Classification
About Carnegie Elective Classifications

​The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching sponsors Elective Classifications for those institutions that have made extraordinary commitments to their public purpose. The Elective Classifications are managed on behalf of the Carnegie Foundation by an Elective Classification Central Office at the American Council on Education (ACE). Learn more at the Carnegie Elective Classifications website.