Carnegie classification recognizes Cornell’s community engagement
By Olivia Hall, Einhorn Center for Community Engagement
Cornell’s growing commitment to hands-on, partner-based, reciprocal learning has earned it the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, a national designation recognizing universities with sustained, mutually beneficial community partnerships.
The classification is awarded by the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, an independent policy and research organization chartered by an act of Congress in 1906. Institutions receive the designation through an elective process of self-study that examines how community engagement is embedded across curriculum, research and institutional practice.
For Cornell, the classification underscores an approach to learning and service that goes back to its roots.