Will It Last? Evidence of Institutionalization at Carnegie Classified Community Engagement Institutions

As community engagement emerges as a central philosophy and practice in higher education, the experiences with it provide a complex portrait of organizational change. This chapter looks across the details of the elective classification template, considers how institutions have responded to questions regarding the role of leadership and issues such as rewards policies, curricular activities, partnership models, and other aspects of institutional actions and strategies regarding community engagement to consider how engagement is affecting the applicant institutions and what approaches seem to be associated with levels of institutionalization or organizational change.