Why Opportunity Colleges and Universities Matter
A new designation within the Carnegie Classifications — long viewed as the nation’s gold standard for organizing the postsecondary sector … Read more
Carnegie Classifications
Yale asked the right question. Now the rest of higher education owes an answer
Earlier this month, Yale published the findings of a year-long faculty investigation into why Americans have lost faith in higher … Read more
Redefining Success: A New Social Contract for Higher Ed | SXSW EDU 2026
At SXSW EDU 2026, Timothy Knowles, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, joined Ted Mitchell, president … Read more
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
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
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
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In a narrow and outdated formula that includes variables like how many applications a college denies, how high their admitted … Read more
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
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
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
