Elective Classification

Cammie Jones
Cammie Jones

Cammie Jones is the Director of the Carnegie Elective for Community Engagement. Cammie, who is originally from Dallas, TX, has spent over 16 years in higher education and nonprofit leadership, continually paving the way for social justice and civic engagement. She is a first-generation college student with a B.S. in Kinesiology from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. …

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Amelia Ortiz
Amelia Ortiz

Amelia Ortiz serves as the Associate Director of the Carnegie Elective Classifications at the American Council on Education. In this role she provides day-to-day support for the operations and administration of the Carnegie Elective Classifications. She has over fifteen years of experience working in various higher education positions, specifically focusing on developing retention and completion initiatives in Adult Education and Student …

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Carla Ortega Santori

Carla Ortega Santori is the Strategic Initiatives Manager at the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University, where she manages the Carnegie Elective Classification in Leadership for Public Purpose. Prior to this role, she developed learning and development strategies at a leading healthcare company in Puerto Rico. She has also worked as an Executive Recruiter and volunteered as an AmeriCorps VISTA. …

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John Saltmarsh

John Saltmarsh is Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Leadership in Education in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He has published widely on community-engaged teaching, learning and research, and organizational change in higher education, including, the co-edited book with Mathew Johnson, “The Elective Carnegie Community Engagement Classification: Constructing a Successful Application …

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Marisol Morales

Marisol Morales is the executive director of the Carnegie Elective Classifications at the American Council on Education. In this role, she provides conceptual leadership and operational oversight to the elective classifications’ work in the United States, Australia, and Canada. This includes the collaborative development of and responsibility for all initiatives; oversight and facilitation of relevant national and international advisory committees; conceptualizing …

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