A plan to inject social equity into Carnegie's classifications

Image:  The Carnegie classifications are an enduring institution in higher education, but they’re about to undergo a facelift that could be dramatic. A recent episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed’s news and analysis podcast, explored news that the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching had chosen the American Council on Education to help it remake and run the main system we use to differentiate among types of colleges and universities. Tim Knowles, president of the...