You are cordially invited to a special workshop to introduce the Carnegie Foundation for the Community Engagement Classification Pilot Study in Ireland.

This workshop will take place on the 14th September, 2015, 11am to 4pm, at the National University of Ireland, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.

You and your colleagues are invited to participate in this introductory workshop that aims to develop a year-long Irish study to explore the first pilot study of the Elective Community Engagement Classification outside of the US higher education sector. This is part of a continued national process to find appropriate tools to build an evidence-base of your institution’s contribution to civic and community engagement that aligns with the national higher education policy context.

This pilot project has been made possible by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's vision. It is a partnership project co-funded and jointly led by the Community Knowledge Initiative at NUI Galway, the Talloires Network and University of Massachusetts Boston. It is an important project in that it may enable other international sites to learn from theIrish experience of piloting the classification as well as helping Irish institutions distill engagement activities.

At the workshop you will be introduced to the classification and the process by Dr. John Saltmarsh, Administrative Partner with the Carnegie Foundation for the Elective Community Engagement Classification and Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and Dr. Elaine Ward, Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Merrimack College.The workshop will be chaired by Lorraine McIlrath, Coordinator of the Community Knowledge Initiative at NUI Galway.

This is an open invite to all institutions of higher education in Ireland and we recommend that you forward this invite to others at your institutions that could work with you on this national project.

Project Team