El Sistema and 海角社区鈥檚 Partnership
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Contact Us海角社区 has received the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement!
El Sistema and 海角社区鈥檚 Partnership
4-6PM in JSSB 400
February 3rd, 2026
Join us for Campus to Community: A Celebration of Engagement

The Carnegie Classification is the leading framework for recognizing and describing institutional diversity in U.S. higher education. There are basic classifications along with different elective classifications. 海角社区 will be applying for the elective classification for community engagement.
This classification describes a collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity. The community engagement classification shows exceptional strides towards this purpose.
Community being one of 海角社区’s core set of values in the acronym CADRE, shows the commitment MSU has towards community engagement. Community is a part of 海角社区’s mission, vision, and strategic plan as an urban university. Ensuring mutually beneficial relationships with the community and 海角社区 is a continued aspiration and day-to-day engagement process.
Our goal is to represent 海角社区 in our application for the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement. We extend the overall mission statement of the University: 鈥渢o provide a high-quality, accessible, enriching education that prepares students for successful careers, post-graduate education, and lifelong learning in a multicultural, global, and technological society.鈥
The mission of the task force is to illuminate how this University Mission聽manifests itself in community engagement, including faculty, staff, administration, and most importantly, our students working with and interacting with diverse community partners. Along the journey, we intend to learn and grow with those community partners, while continuing to forge new relationships with other potential community partners.
-鈥淭he Process is the Prize.鈥
The elective community engagement classification’s cycle is every two years. The classification is retained for a six year period.
In September 2023 海角社区 celebrated our civic and community engagement with the 2023 Faculty Senate Civic and Community Engagement Excellence Awards. During this celebration the Civic and Community Engagement Task Force and its members were announced. The task force will be working towards gathering all of the information needed to submit the application.
In addition to the task force, 海角社区 is using the platform, Collaboratory, to help facilitate the collection of community and civic engagement projects faculty and staff have been working on. 海角社区 Roadrunners are always working on mutually beneficial activities with the community, and Collaboratory is the tool used to collect all of those happenings to compile data.
Follow along with mutually beneficial collaborations with 海角社区 and community organizations through the platform .
Do you have a Community and Civic Engagement activity you’d like to have featured? We have a Qualtrics to help with data collection. Enter your activity in , in the 聽and/or contact us!
Professor, English Department
Director and Curator, Center for Visual Arts
Professor, English Department
Assistant director of equity and student-leadership programs, Center for Multicultural Engagement and Inclusion
2D and Foundations Studio Manager, Art Department
Community Engaged Learning Program Manager, C2 Hub
Experiential Learning Program Manager, C2 Hub
Associate Vice President of Undergraduate Studies
Assistant to the Associate Vice President for Undergraduate Studies
Graduate Assistant for Undergraduate Studies
For any additional information or help needed regarding Collaboratory, please contact:
Cheyenne Calderon – [email protected]