Session Descriptions
Content Webinars:
1. Overview of the Classification and Framework: Presented by Drs. John Saltmarsh and Lina Dostilio, this webinar provides an orientation to the classification including its history, rationale for campuses to participate, and an overview of the application frameworks being used in 2015.. Participants will be asked to complete short pre-reading.
2. Carnegie-Worthy Assessment: This webinar revisits the areas of the documentation framework that are concerned with assessment and evaluation including:
a. Systematic mechanisms for assessing community attitudes and perceptions of an institution’s engagement with community
b. Systematic campus-wide tracking or documentation of engagement
c. Campus-wide assessment of impact of engagement
d. Use of aggregated assessment data to inform and improve engagement practices
e. Assessment of learning outcomes specific to curricular engagement
f. Assessment of mutuality and reciprocity within community-campus partnerships
Dr. Barbara Holland will present relevant examples of assessment methods and matrices being used in the higher education environment that are germane to these areas.
3. Campus Panel--Model Carnegie Processes: Much like other accreditation processes, the Carnegie classification involves a process of institutional self-study in which campuses determine the most effective means to collect evidence of their engagement with communities. This webinar convenes a panel of four campuses that successfully secured the Carnegie Classification and will present their diverse self-study processes and the methods used to collect evidence salient to the documentation framework. In addition to presenting a range of self-study processes, the panel will represent a diversity of institutional types including community college, research-focused, arts and science focused, and professional program focused institutions.
Peer Support Institute: Participating institutions will be asked to select two areas (from the list below) that they expect to be most challenging to their successful self-study.
A. Design and Completion: Designing a self-study process that creates buy-in across the institution such that sufficient evidence is documented.
B. Leveraging the Self-Study: Using the completed self-study to leverage institutional change and improvement of engagement practices.
C. Assessment of Community Perceptions
D. Assessment of Impact of Engagement on Students, Faculty, Community, Institution
E. Tracking Engagement Activities
F. Documenting Institutional Support, Infrastructure, Leadership, and Mission
G. Documenting Recognition of Engagement: Promotion, Tenure, Student Transcripts
H. Documenting Curricular Engagement
I. Documenting Outreach and Partnerships
J. Using the Re-classification Framework (appropriate for those institutions that received the classification in 2006 or 2008 and that are now reapplying)
Ongoing support: In late October, PDN will conclude by convening the participants by state. Loosely structured, these state-based sessions are meant to be an informal question and answer opportunity and to encourage participants to seek continued support for their application efforts at the state Compact level.
1. Overview of the Classification and Framework: Presented by Drs. John Saltmarsh and Lina Dostilio, this webinar provides an orientation to the classification including its history, rationale for campuses to participate, and an overview of the application frameworks being used in 2015.. Participants will be asked to complete short pre-reading.
2. Carnegie-Worthy Assessment: This webinar revisits the areas of the documentation framework that are concerned with assessment and evaluation including:
a. Systematic mechanisms for assessing community attitudes and perceptions of an institution’s engagement with community
b. Systematic campus-wide tracking or documentation of engagement
c. Campus-wide assessment of impact of engagement
d. Use of aggregated assessment data to inform and improve engagement practices
e. Assessment of learning outcomes specific to curricular engagement
f. Assessment of mutuality and reciprocity within community-campus partnerships
Dr. Barbara Holland will present relevant examples of assessment methods and matrices being used in the higher education environment that are germane to these areas.
3. Campus Panel--Model Carnegie Processes: Much like other accreditation processes, the Carnegie classification involves a process of institutional self-study in which campuses determine the most effective means to collect evidence of their engagement with communities. This webinar convenes a panel of four campuses that successfully secured the Carnegie Classification and will present their diverse self-study processes and the methods used to collect evidence salient to the documentation framework. In addition to presenting a range of self-study processes, the panel will represent a diversity of institutional types including community college, research-focused, arts and science focused, and professional program focused institutions.
Peer Support Institute: Participating institutions will be asked to select two areas (from the list below) that they expect to be most challenging to their successful self-study.
A. Design and Completion: Designing a self-study process that creates buy-in across the institution such that sufficient evidence is documented.
B. Leveraging the Self-Study: Using the completed self-study to leverage institutional change and improvement of engagement practices.
C. Assessment of Community Perceptions
D. Assessment of Impact of Engagement on Students, Faculty, Community, Institution
E. Tracking Engagement Activities
F. Documenting Institutional Support, Infrastructure, Leadership, and Mission
G. Documenting Recognition of Engagement: Promotion, Tenure, Student Transcripts
H. Documenting Curricular Engagement
I. Documenting Outreach and Partnerships
J. Using the Re-classification Framework (appropriate for those institutions that received the classification in 2006 or 2008 and that are now reapplying)
Ongoing support: In late October, PDN will conclude by convening the participants by state. Loosely structured, these state-based sessions are meant to be an informal question and answer opportunity and to encourage participants to seek continued support for their application efforts at the state Compact level.