The Center for Community Engaged Leadership, Learning, and Research recently submitted an application to receive the Carnegie Foundation’s Classification for Community Engagement. This national designation recognizes higher education institutions’ commitments to working with their local communities. The Carnegie Foundation defines Community Engagement as “collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.” To determine whether Bucknell will receive the Community Engagement Classification, the Carnegie Foundation examines not just the Center for Community Engaged Leadership, Learning, and Research, but how […]