Volunteer activities and community engagement efforts in general earned University of North Carolina Wilmington a continued designation from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the university announced recently. This designation, the Community Engagement classification of the university, is a renewal of the classification that UNCW was given in 2008.
 
In April 2014, UNCW’s Office of Community Partnerships began efforts to retain the university’s designation “by submitting evidence-based documentation focused on the university’s community and economic engagement and impact,” the release stated. The application highlighted campus activities and achievements since the university first received the classification in 2008, including its Quality Enhancement Plan and E-TEAL, the university’s applied learning model, the release continued.
 
The Carnegie Foundation began bestowing the designation in 2006, giving it to 76 colleges, according to the release. This year, 240 institutions nationwide received the classification, including 83 that received it for the first time according to the foundation's website.