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    DEC. 18, 2008 — Wagner College has been awarded the Community Engagement Classification by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, school officials learned yesterday.
    Wagner is the only college or university in New York City to be so designated by the foundation.
    According to the Carnegie Foundation, “ ‘Community Engagement’ describes the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.”
    Numerous examples of Wagner College’s depth of engagement with the surrounding community were provided in the documentation requested by the Carnegie Foundation, including:

• A unique curriculum model, the Wagner Plan for the Practical Liberal Arts, that includes community service components for all first-year and senior students
• A total of 80,000 hours invested each year by Wagner’s students in a wide variety of general and special-focus community activities
• A roster of Wagner community service partners that includes 33 community agencies, two churches, three nursing homes and five public schools
• Two consecutive annual citations from the White House Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth
• The designation of a full-time, professional staff position in Wagner College’s Center for Leadership & Service, which coordinates the college’s many community engagement activities

    Wagner College was among 119 institutions awarded the Community Engagement classification this year. The Carnegie Foundation awarded the classification once before, in 2006, when 76 schools were recognized.
    For more information on the Carnegie Foundation’s Community Engagement classification, visit their WEB SITE.