Rethinking and reframing the Carnegie Classification.

From: Change | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: McCormick, Alexander C.; Zhao, Chun-Mei | Copyright information

The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education was established by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1967 to study and make recommendations regarding the major issues facing U.S. higher education. The commission soon confronted a problem: no extant classification system differentiated colleges and universities along the dimensions that were most relevant to its work. So in 1970 the commission developed a new classification scheme to meet its analytic needs. Thr...

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