The Carnegie Elective Classifications Central Office, led by Dr. Marisol Morales, Lauren Bartshe-Handlen, and Dr. John Saltmarsh, has announced that the first time and re-classification applications for the 2024 Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement are now available on GivePulse. Interested campuses must initiate an application by October 31, 2022. The deadline to submit an application is May 1, 2023.
Click here to access the application portal in GivePulse. This can guide campus coalitions and teams to properly prepare their responses. Additionally, the new Carnegie Elective Classifications’ website offers an overview of the community engagement classification (timeline, application fee structure, PDFs of the application questions) and resources to support applicants including workshops, webinars, and publications.
Campuses that received the Classification in 2015 may undertake re-classification in order to retain the Classification or elect to undertake re-classification during the 2026 cycle. Campuses classified in 2020 do not need to apply for re-classification at this time. Campuses that received the classification prior to 2015 and did not re-classify in 2020 are not eligible to re-classify, but are invited to again participate in the first-time classification.
For general inquiries regarding the Carnegie Elective Classification application process, web resources and tools, or guidance related to application content, please contact info@carnegieelectiveclassifications.org or visit the Community Engagement Classification’s Frequently Asked Questions.
For more information, you can visit the Carnegie Elective Classifications Central Office website at
https://carnegieelectiveclassifications.org/. Nationally, 361 institutions had earned the classification as of 2020, which can be viewed here.
Many campuses in the Bonner Network have participated in this process, designed to support campus-wide institutionalization of deep, pervasive, and integrated community engagement. As of the 2020 classification, 32 colleges and universities in the Bonner Network had earned this prestigious distinction. For individuals in the Bonner Network, those institutions included:
Allegheny College (2015)
Averett University (2020)
Bates College (2015)
Berea College (2015)
Berry College (2020)
Brown University (2020)
Capital University (2020)
Davidson College (2020)
Edgewood College (2015)
Emory & Henry College (2015)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (2015)
Maryville College (2020)
Montclair State University (2015)
Rhodes College (2015)
Rollins College (2015)
Rutgers University-Camden (2015)
Rutgers University-New Brunswick (2020)
Siena College (2015)
Slippery Rock University (2020)
Stetson University (2015)
Stockton University (2020)
The College of New Jersey (2015)
The University of the South (2020)
Tusculum University (2020)
University of Nevada, Reno (2020)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2015)
University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2015)
University of Richmond (2020)
Virginia Wesleyan University (2020)
Wagner College (2015)
Warren Wilson College (2015)
Widener University (2015)
Key: bold = first time designated in 2020
Click links above for prior campus announcements.