November 25, 2005
Carnegie Overhauls Its Classification System
Changes expand traditional categories of colleges and universities
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has unveiled the most sweeping changes in more than three decades in its system of classifying American colleges and universities.
Announced here last week, the methodology is a "fundamental reconsideration" of the foundation's approach to institutional categorization, Carnegie officials said. Five new categories of institutions will augment the
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