Podcast: Injecting Social Mobility into the Carnegie Classifications
Posted by Inside Higher Ed on March 29, 2022
This week’s episode examines plans to refresh the framework for understanding colleges, with a key emphasis on their role in being engines for equity.
The Carnegie Classifications are an enduring institution in higher education – but they’re about to undergo a facelift that could be dramatic.
This podcast episode of The Key explores the recent news that the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching — which created the main system we use to differentiate among types of colleges and universities about 50 years ago – had chosen the American Council on Education, the largest and most diverse association of college presidents, to remake and run the classifications going forward.
Tim Knowles of Carnegie and Ted Mitchell of ACE discuss the new partnership and why the time is right to refresh the classifications. They emphasize their plan to add a significant focus on whether and how much colleges and universities contribute to social mobility and racial equity, potentially by adding an entirely new classification that would sort institutions by the degree to which they are engines of mobility and equity.
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