Education

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

From The Chronicle: “In the full revision… colleges got new core classifications based on their size and the degrees they most commonly bestow. They also all got labels denoting whether they enroll underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities and Pell-eligible students at rates reflecting the geographic areas they draw from, and whether the students who attend — including those who don’t graduate — make more money than their peers. Those institutions whose numbers make them ‘higher access’ and ‘higher earnings’ are being branded by Carnegie as ‘Opportunity Colleges and Universities.’”

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