UMB Receives National Recognition for Community Engagement
Dear UMB Community:
At the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), our commitment to serving the public good starts in the city we call home. Here, our students, faculty, staff, and community partners effect real change by improving health, driving economic activity, and advancing social justice.
I am tremendously proud to share that we have been recognized for this commitment. This year, UMB earned the Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement, a national designation recognizing colleges and universities for deep, sustained, and reciprocal partnerships with their communities.
This designation is administered by the American Council on Education in partnership with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Fewer than 10 percent of colleges and universities in the United States hold this designation. To be recognized, our University had to demonstrate through a rigorous, evidence-based process that community engagement is embedded across our teaching, research, and service.
Further, we’re one of only three institutions in Maryland recognized with both the Carnegie Foundation’s Community Engagement Classification and its highest classification of research activity (R1). In this way, our University affirms that our dedication to academic excellence is deeply rooted in our ties to community.
I want to acknowledge that our commitment to Baltimore would hold no weight without you: our students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Through service to others, civic engagement, and charitable giving, you show time and again how much you care for your community and the causes you hold dear.
This Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement Classification would not have been possible without our Office of Community and Civic Engagement (OCCE). OCCE coordinated the efforts of academic and administrative units across campus to submit a compelling application on behalf of our University. I thank the entire OCCE team for their tireless dedication — to UMB and to our city.
Sincerely,
Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS
President
