Previous versions of the Carnegie Classifications were never really intended for broad public use or consumption. The classifications were a tool developed by a small team of education policy researchers to better understand characteristics of higher education and then used largely among the higher education research community. As ACE and the Carnegie Foundation started to examine ways in which the Carnegie Classifications could evolve, it became clear that the framework – once developed by higher education researchers, yet largely unchanged since 1973 – had failed to keep pace with the evolving and rapidly diversifying higher education landscape. As Gunja and deputy executive director of the Carnegie Classifications Sara Gast began talking with stakeholders – from higher education presidents and chancellors, to provosts and academic deans, to higher education researchers and non-profit education organizational leaders – they learned that the relatively static version of the Carnegie Classifications were actually being used to inform federal and state policy and undergird college magazine rankings frameworks. “The Carnegie Classifications have an essential role to play.

Source: Forbes January 28, 2024 01:25 UTC