Marisol Morales

Marisol Morales is the Executive Director of the Carnegie Elective Classifications,
providing conceptual leadership and operational oversight to the elective classifications’
work. 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 as well as 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 2018-2022. Marisol was the founding Director of the Office of Civic and
Community Engagement at the University of La Verne from 2013-2018 and the
Associate Director of the Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning and
Community Service Studies at DePaul University from 2005-2013. In 2020, she was
appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Community-Engaged Scholarship at the
University of Central Florida and also serves as an adjunct faculty in the Engaging Latino Communities for Education (ENLACE) Higher Education Master’s program at Northeastern Illinois University. Marisol sits on the editorial board of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, on the editorial advisory board of Liberal Education, a publication of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and on the board of the International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE). Marisol holds a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American/Latino Studies and a Master of Arts in International Public Service Management both from DePaul University. She earned her Ed.D in Organizational Leadership at the University of La Verne in 2020. Her dissertation focused on the community engagement experiences of Latinx students at a Hispanic Serving Institution.