{"id":30587,"date":"2015-01-09T15:55:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T01:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=30587"},"modified":"2021-10-13T11:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T21:22:36","slug":"carnegie-foundation-selects-kapiolani-cc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/01\/09\/carnegie-foundation-selects-kapiolani-cc\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnegie Foundation selects Kapi\u02bbolani<\/span> CC<\/abbr>"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching<\/a> has selected Kapiʻolani<\/span> Community College<\/a> as one of 240 U.S. colleges and universities to receive its 2015 community engagement classification. In order to be selected, institutions had to provide descriptions and examples of institutionalized practices of community engagement that showed alignment among mission, culture, leadership, resources and practices. This approach enabled the foundation to address elements of institutional mission and distinctiveness that are not represented in the national data on colleges and universities. These 240 institutions join the 121 institutions that earned classification during the 2010 selection process. Of these 361 campuses, only 13 are community colleges.<\/p>\n

Kapiʻolani<\/span> CC<\/abbr> was initially selected for this classification in 2006 and through a renewal application process was selected again this year. The college featured its Service and Sustainability Learning<\/a> program and community-based partnerships tackling educational, environmental, health, and long-term care issues, and supporting the arts and humanities in Honolulu; partnerships in support of indigenous, intercultural, and international education; and workforce development partnerships especially for minority outreach and undergraduate research in STEM<\/abbr>, clinical opportunities in health, and internships in culinary arts, hospitality and business education. The college also highlighted its institutional assessment framework documenting the positive impact of service-learning on student engagement, learning and achievement.<\/p>\n

“The importance of this elective classification is borne out by the response of so many campuses that have demonstrated their deep engagement with local, regional, national and global communities,” said John Saltmarsh, director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education<\/a>. “These are campuses that are improving teaching and learning, producing research that makes a difference in communities, and revitalizing their civic and academic missions.”<\/p>\n

“This is the first time that there has been a re-classification process,” noted Amy Driscoll, consulting scholar for the community engagement classification, “and we are seeing renewed institutional commitment, advanced curricular and assessment practices, and deeper community partnerships, all sustained through changes in campus leadership and within the context of a devastating economic recession.”<\/p>\n

Robert Franco<\/strong>, Kapiʻolani<\/span> CC<\/abbr> professor of anthropology, Office for Institutional Effectiveness<\/a>, who developed and submitted the college’s 2006 and 2015 applications, emphasized “Community engagement provides a new learning space in an evolving ecology of learning in American higher education, the humanity and reality of community complements and confronts the technology of cyberspace.”<\/p>\n

Kapiʻolani<\/span> CC<\/abbr>’s Chancellor Leon Richards<\/strong> noted, “We value our community partnerships for student engagement, learning and achievement, and we look to these partners to guide our current programs and to provide essential directions in future campus planning. Our renewed Carnegie Classification gives us confidence that we are approaching our local, national and international partnerships in a manner that is authentic, long-term, and mutually beneficial to all stakeholders.”<\/p>\n

View the Kapiʻolani<\/span> CC<\/abbr> news release<\/a> for the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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