UW-Madison Working Group for the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement

December 2008 - UW-Madison awarded Community Engagement Status by the Carnegie Foundation (Press Release)

Final Submission Document Reporting Form
Final Submission Partnership Grid
Additional detail for selected questions

A core team to pilot UW-Madison's application was established in March 2008 to respond to Carnegie Foundation's Call for Participation. The application for Community Engagement classification also served as the basis for a section of UW-Madison's reaccreditation core criteria.

Project Co-Sponsor: Aaron Brower, Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning,
Co-Sponsor and Document Lead: Jocelyn Milner, Director of Academic Planning and Analysis (Primary Contact)
Project Coordinator: Don Schutt, Director of Human Resource Development
Project Co-Coordinator: Mathilde Andrejko, The Reaccreditation Project

Timeline:
- Carnegie issues invitation to institutions in January 2008
- UW-Madison response core team established in March 2008
- application process opens April 1, 2008
- core team conducts interviews and developments a first draft, April and May
- first draft finished May 30, available for review and comment period from June 4-20
- revision period June 20-July 11
- final draft finished July 12, available for review and comment from July 12-25
- draft of application completed by August 4, 2008
- final documents submitted on August 29, 2008
- Carnegie Foundation notified UW-Madison that that it was awarded Community Engagement status, December 18, 2008

Related Links
- WISCAPE Presentation (Jocelyn Milner), October 2008 - Slides, Link to WISCAPE
- Carnegie Foundation's Call for Participation.
- Wisconsin Idea Project
- Wisconsin's Big Idea: How a Major Research University Enriches Engagement, Howard Martin and Peyton Smith, October 2005
- Draft Resource Guide and Recommendations for Defining and Benchmarking Engagement, CIC Committee on Engagement, February 2005
- List of Campus Compact members in the Community Engagement classification
- North Carolina State University's 2006 Application