Congratulations, everyone! Woot!!

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Nicholas Benson, J.D.
Executive Director

Office of Community Engagement

Campus Office: 2999 University Capitol Centre, Iowa City, Iowa 52242

Phone: 319-384-3464, E-mail: nicholas-benson@uiowa.edu
engagement.uiowa.edu

From: Jen Davison <jnfrdvsn@uw.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2026 11:01 AM
To: Lisa Chambers <lisa.chambers@wisc.edu>; Laurie Van Egeren <lve@umn.edu>; Neeraja Aravamudan <aneeraja@umich.edu>
Cc: Tania D. Mitchell <tanmitch@umd.edu>; Brian Kurisky <brian.kurisky@rutgers.edu>; Reece, Jason via Big10engagementreps <big10engagementreps@lists.unl.edu>
Subject: [External] [Big10engagementreps] Re: Congrats

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Congratulations everyone! The assessment itself is such a great accomplishment, and the classification represents massive, laudable efforts to support community engagement within each university.

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Jen Davison (she/her)

Project Director, Community Engagement

Executive Office of the President and Provost

Co-Director, Urban@UW Research to Action Collaboratory

University of Washington
Call me on Teams: 206-221-2289

From: Lisa Chambers via Big10engagementreps <big10engagementreps@lists.unl.edu>
Date: Monday, January 12, 2026 at 8:54 AM
To: Laurie Van Egeren <lve@umn.edu>, Neeraja Aravamudan <aneeraja@umich.edu>
Cc: Tania D. Mitchell <tanmitch@umd.edu>, Brian Kurisky <brian.kurisky@rutgers.edu>, Reece, Jason via Big10engagementreps <big10engagementreps@lists.unl.edu>
Subject: [Big10engagementreps] Re: Congrats

Congrats to all!

Lisa Chambers  She, her, hers  Administrative Director  Morgridge Center for Public Service  608 263-2508 (w) 608 514-3499 (cell) https://morgridge.wisc.edu/  Connecting Campus and Community Since 1996

Please let me know if you need accommodation for our meeting.

From: Laurie Van Egeren via Big10engagementreps <big10engagementreps@lists.unl.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2026 10:49 AM
To: Neeraja Aravamudan <aneeraja@umich.edu>
Cc: Tania D. Mitchell <tanmitch@umd.edu>; Brian Kurisky <brian.kurisky@rutgers.edu>; Reece, Jason via Big10engagementreps <big10engagementreps@lists.unl.edu>
Subject: [Big10engagementreps] Re: Congrats

Whoot!

On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 10:25 AM Neeraja Aravamudan <aneeraja@umich.edu> wrote:

Congrats all! 

On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 11:24 AM Tania D. Mitchell <tanmitch@umd.edu> wrote:

That's amazing! Congratulations all!

Tania

On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 11:12 AM Brian Kurisky via Big10engagementreps <big10engagementreps@lists.unl.edu> wrote:

Congratulations to those institutions who received the Carnegie Designation.  It appears that all Big 10 institutions who applied for received the designation with all but Nebraska applying this round!!!

Brian Patrick Kurisky, Ph.D.

Pronouns: He, Him, His

Executive Director for the Collaborative Center for Community Engagement

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Lucy Stone Hall  |  Livingston Campus

Office A328  |  New Brunswick, NJ 08901

P: 848-445-4041  |  brian.kurisky@rutgers.edu

Book time to meet with me

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Tania D. Mitchell  || she/her(s)

Associate Provost for Community Engagement

Professor in Counseling, Higher Education and Special Education

University of Maryland

tanmitch@umd.edu

301.405.9938

We are on the ancestral lands of the Piscataway people.

Enslaved people of African descent farmed, paved, maintained, and developed the land on which our university stands today.

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Neeraja Aravamudan, Ph.D.

Pronounced: NEE-ruh-juh AH-rah-vuh-moo-dhun 

she/her/hers

Director

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