Carnegie Elective Classification 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.