Carnegie Election Classification for Community Service
Community engagement is collaboration with external communities and stakeholders for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge, experience, opportunity, and resources. It reflects Hofstra’s role in creating social change and enhancing democratic practices for an equitable and just world. Giving students direct experience with issues they are studying in the classroom, equips them to analyze and address problems in the community. It gives recognition to the importance of place and the responsibility of the University as a member of a particular local community and fulfills an important aspect of our civic purpose. Effective community partnerships enhance collaboration among students, faculty, administrators, and those outside the University. Community engagement prepares students for meaningful lives and careers.
Long Island is a region of innovation and opportunity, yet also one that has historically experienced political fragmentation, segregation, and inequality. As a major university in this region, Hofstra must play a key role in contributing to the region’s dynamism and ensuring that all communities are served and empowered by it. To that end, we strive to maintain long-lasting relationships with the organizations, leaders, and school districts seeking to build a better Long Island and to engage our neighbors in ongoing conversations about local needs and opportunities. As we renew and deepen our local and regional engagement, we also seek to expand our impact by building relationships with communities at the national and global scales.
Community engagement must be grounded in the qualities of reciprocity, respect, shared authority, and co-creation of goals and outcomes. We listen and follow, as much as we speak and lead. We choose our forms of engagement deliberately and flexibly, to align the University’s resources and broader strategic plan with emergent opportunities to create effective partnerships.
The CCE Core Committee
Chanda Washington, Associate to the President for Government and Community Affairs
Phil Dalton, Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Rhetoric & Director, Center for Civic Engagement
Anita Ellis, Director of Off-Campus Living and Commuting Student Services
Martine Hackett, Associate Professor of Population Health
Yesika Fernandez, Assistant Director of Student Success
Jodi Langsfeld, Associate Dean for Student Affairs
J B. Bennington, Professor of Geology, Environment, and Sustainability
Richard Hayes, Executive Director, Institute Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Lauren Burignat-Kozol, Associate Dean of Honors College
Lisa Monticciolo, Dean of Students and Diversity and Inclusion Officer
M D. Burghardt, Professor, Co-Director of the Center for STEM Research
Brittany Scott, Program Manager, Government and Community Relations
CCE Core Committee’s Charge
The CCE Core Committee exists primarily to coordinate the completion of the application. The CCE Core Committee, in consultation with the Administrative Committee, will make the final determination of content in the application. CCE Core Committee will write the campus survey. CCE Core Committee will answer some questions in the application on its own. CCE Core Committee will write some draft answers and submit to the University Community Committee for deliberation and revision. CCE Core Committee will write some answers in consultation with Institutional Research.
Hofstra Community Committee and its Charge
The Hofstra Community Committee exists to invite and involve various corners of the university and the community in the process of completing the Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement. Though draft answers to all application questions will be available for Hofstra Community Committee comment, the Hofstra Community Committee is specifically charged with answering questions that will benefit from cross-university input. The Hofstra Community Committee will deliberate the university’s working definition of “civic engagement” and the fitness of the campus mission and vision to civic engagement, generating input that will inform a draft definition written by the CCE Core Committee. The Hofstra Community Committee will answer various questions following completion of a campus survey on civic engagement. The Hofstra Community Committee will offer comment and review of CCE Core Committee answers.
Upcoming Dates & Deadlines
- 4/1/2025 - Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement application submitted.