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Carnegie Classifications

Carnegie Recognizes Colleges for Community Engagement

The Carnegie Foundation announced on Monday that more than 230 colleges and universities received its Community Engagement classification. The designation … Read more

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Colleges serving a different kind of student matter

For decades, old-school rankings and classic classifications have helped define what excellence looks like in higher education. However, in doing … Read more

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Degrees of Opportunity: Rethinking Value in Higher Ed

Colleges and universities are doing a better job lately explaining the value of their degrees, and increasingly they’re getting important … Read more

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Regional Public Universities Drive Social Mobility. Rankings—and The Nation—Need To Catch Up

In a narrow and outdated formula that includes variables like how many applications a college denies, how high their admitted … Read more

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How College Leaders Can Play Offense On Value

There is as much variety among the nearly 4,000 degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States as in the … Read more

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Carnegie Classifications debuts redesign of system to group colleges

The American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching on Thursday released updates to the … Read more

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New Carnegie Classification Aims to Shake Up How Higher Ed Sees Itself

The latest Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education is here, and there’s a new top category for colleges to … Read more

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Beyond ‘Prestige’: New Carnegie Classification Focuses on Student Success

As widespread public skepticism about the value of a degree persists, a new institutional classification system recognizes colleges and universities that … Read more

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Redesigned Carnegie Classifications

Newly redesigned Carnegie Classifications released today intend to better reflect how higher education is changing and to make them more useful … Read more

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Higher Ed’s Game of Thrones: Ace Plans to Debut New Carnegie Classification Methodology This Year

It’s a tale as old as time, or at least as old as several decades for higher education: colleges hyperfocusing … Read more

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