Marisol Morales
Executive Director, Carnegie Elective Classifications
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 and implementing extensive data archives; and developing and enacting a shared vision regarding access to and use of the knowledge produced by the Carnegie Elective Classifications to beneficially guide research, policy, and practice.
Prior to this role, she was the vice president for network leadership at Campus Compact from 2018 to 2022. Morales was the founding director of the Office of Civic and Community Engagement at the University of La Verne from 2013 to 2018 and the associate director of the Steans Center for Community-Based Service Learning and Community Service Studies at DePaul University from 2005 to 2013.
In 2020, she was appointed as a visiting assistant professor of community-engaged scholarship at the University of Central Florida. Since 2021, she has been an adjunct faculty teaching Latino higher education policy in the ENLACE Higher Education Master’s Program at Northeastern Illinois University.
Morales sits on the editorial board of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. She has also served on the editorial advisory board of Liberal Education—a publication of the American Association of Colleges and Universities—and on the board of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement. She currently serves as the co-chair of the education committee of The Puerto Rican Agenda of Chicago and on the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus Foundation as the board designee for 4th District Representative Lilian Jiménez.
Morales holds a bachelor’s degree in Latin American/Latino studies and a master’s degree in international public service management from DePaul University. She earned her EdD in organizational leadership at the University of La Verne in 2020. Her dissertation focused on the community engagement experiences of Latino students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution. Morales was born and raised in Chicago with ancestral roots in Puerto Rico.