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ACU is one of the first recipients of the prestigious Australian Carnegie Community Engagement Classification.
Since 2006, the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification has been the benchmark for the highest standards in institutionalised and transformational university-community engagement in US higher education. After a successful pilot and contextualisation in Australia during 2019, the Carnegie Classification now supports the higher education sector in pursuing best-practice and impactful community engagement.
The Carnegie Classification provides a framework for evidencing collaborative university-community engagement that is transformational to learning and teaching, research, and the communities we partner with. The classification involves a rigorous and wide-ranging institutional self-study and reflection on how well community engagement is institutionally embedded and supported and the quality, outcomes, and impacts of community-engaged partnerships. Receiving Carnegie Classification is an affirmation of our mission to pursue knowledge, affirm human dignity, and pursue the common good. Our classification signifies a commitment to continual improvement on the depth, impact, and institutional support for ACU’s community engagement.
The Carnegie Classification is supported by the Network for Community Engagement and Carnegie Classification under the auspice of Engagement Australia.
The Carnegie Classification defines the broad spectrum of community engagement in terms of:
Process: “The collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial creation and exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.”
Purpose: “The partnership (of knowledge and resources) between higher education institutions and the public and private sectors to:
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