Carnegie University-Community Engagement Classification
Purpose
USF is proud of its past and extensive record of community engagement, and we are eager to expand and sustain our partnerships with the local and broader communities we serve while exploring ways to increase faculty involvement and enhance student academic success through such activities.
"Meeting community needs" is one of USF's four strategic goals endorsed by the Florida Board of Governors. The University's mission and goals also reaffirm the centrality of "community engagement to build university-community partnerships and collaborations." The Faculty Senate committee, and its constituent units and faculty members, are all dedicated to developing a strong operational plan to meet these goals and fulfill this vision in line with the academic values and pedagogical principles that govern our respective disciplines and individual research programs.
Measuring impacts and outcomes as well as monitoring progress and gaps are among the primary elements of the USF engagement process. Because we place such a high priority on integrating community interests in all that we do at USF, and because we find the proposed Carnegie documentation project to be aligned with these objectives, we welcome the opportunity to participate in this process. In short, the University of South Florida is committed to actively contributing to The Carnegie Foundation's Community Engagement elective classification.
Judy Genshaft, President
May 2006
On August 31, 2006, USF submitted its application for the elective classification in Community Engagement by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
On December 6, 2006, USF was notified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching that it had been selected for the Community Engagement Classification.
Carnegie's Classification Database, USF's Classification
