{"id":5141,"date":"2015-01-12T20:04:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T20:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=5141"},"modified":"2015-01-12T20:06:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T20:06:42","slug":"carnegie-community-engagement-classification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/01\/12\/carnegie-community-engagement-classification\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg earns Carnegie Foundation\u2019s Community Engagement Classification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/01\/Carnegie_CEC_digital_seal-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5143 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/01\/Carnegie_CEC_digital_seal-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"Carnegie_CEC_digital_seal (1)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/01\/Carnegie_CEC_digital_seal-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/01\/Carnegie_CEC_digital_seal-1-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/01\/Carnegie_CEC_digital_seal-1.png 553w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Augsburg College\u00a0has received its second\u00a0Community Engagement Classification from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Institutions are recognized based on evidence of their collaboration\u00a0with the larger community, which:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>enriches scholarship, research, and creative activity;<\/li>\n<li>enhances curriculum, teaching, and learning;<\/li>\n<li>prepares educated, engaged citizens;<\/li>\n<li>strengthens democratic values and civic responsibility;<\/li>\n<li>addresses critical societal issues; and<\/li>\n<li>contributes to the public good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Carnegie Foundation\u2019s Classification for Community Engagement is an elective classification. Institutions participate voluntarily by submitting required material as part of an extensive application process. Those materials include but are not limited to a description of the nature and extent of the university\u2019s engagement with the community \u2014 local or beyond \u2014 plus institutional commitment, its impact on students, staff, and faculty, and an assessment of initiatives geared toward community engagement.<\/p>\n<p>About 8 percent of U.S. degree-granting institutions have earned the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification to date, and Augsburg was one of only eight\u00a0Minnesota colleges or universities recognized in 2015. Augsburg previously received the\u00a0Community Engagement Classification in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The New England Resource Center for Higher Education serves as Carnegie\u2019s administrative partner, and additional information regarding the classification process is available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/nerche.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=341&amp;Itemid=92\" target=\"_blank\">NERCHE website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg College\u00a0has received its second\u00a0Community Engagement Classification from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Institutions are recognized based on evidence of their collaboration\u00a0with the larger community, which: enriches scholarship, research, and creative activity; enhances curriculum, teaching, and learning; prepares educated, engaged citizens; strengthens democratic values and civic responsibility; addresses critical societal issues; and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,4,3228,7,8],"tags":[3473,3472,514,3474,3471],"class_list":["post-5141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-articles","category-faculty","category-donors","category-kudos","category-staff","category-students","tag-accolades","tag-awards","tag-carnegie-foundation","tag-civic-responsibility","tag-community-engagement-classification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5141"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5148,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141\/revisions\/5148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}