Carnegie Foundation Cites NU For Outstanding Community Engagement
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, a national policy and research center dedicated to the improvement of teaching and learning, has again selected Niagara University for inclusion in its Community Engagement Classification.
NU is among 240 colleges and universities nationwide, and 14 in New York state, selected for the foundation’s 2015 classification, which includes categories for curricular engagement and community outreach and partnerships. NU was cited for its programs and activities in both categories.
In order to be selected, institutions had to provide descriptions and examples of institutionalized practices of community engagement that showed alignment among mission, culture, leadership, resources and practices.
A total of 361 institutions have been successfully classified in the Community Engagement Classification since 2006. Campuses that received the classification in 2006 and 2008, of which Niagara was one, had to undertake a re-classification application and review in order to retain the classification.
The classification is effective through 2025.
Many more details on this wonderful achievement are available here.