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McCormick, Alexander C.; Pike, Gary R.; Kuh, George D.; Chen, Pu-Shih Daniel – Research in Higher Education, 2009
This study compares the explanatory power of the 2000 edition of Carnegie Classification, the 2005 revision of the classification, and selected variables underlying Carnegie's expanded 2005 classification system using data from the National Survey of Student Engagement's spring 2004 administration. Results indicate that the 2000 and 2005…
Descriptors: College Students, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Student Surveys
McCormick, Alexander C. – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2007
The author expresses concern that launching an accountability initiative without careful consideration may do more harm than good. A well-designed accountability system, writes McCormick, motivates substantive change and useful diagnostic tools must not be undermined in the name of accountability. Several new college-quality initiatives offer…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Educational Practices, Writing Skills, Accountability
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McCormick, Alexander C.; Zhao, Chun-Mei – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2005
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…
Descriptors: Colleges, Higher Education, Classification, Philanthropic Foundations
McCormick, Alexander C. – Higher Education in Europe, 2008
"Classification" and "ranking" are tools for comparing colleges and universities, albeit for different purposes. Although "classification" focuses on identifying similarities rather than ordering institutions, it is closely intertwined with "ranking", whether directly through its content, structure, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Classification, Benchmarking, Standard Setting
McCormick, Alexander C. – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2005
The Carnegie Foundation has developed a new set of lenses for viewing American higher education that broadens description of U.S. colleges and universities. By expanding the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education from a single typology to a set of distinct classifications representing several ways to think about how colleges…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Undergraduate Study, Graduate Study
McCormick, Alexander C.; Cox, Rebecca D. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2003
Traces the history of the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education and the need to differentiate two-year colleges. Includes brief examination of classification theory and practice, followed by discussion of the particular challenges in classifying two-year colleges. Suggests new systems of classification would bring benefits.…
Descriptors: Classification, Community Colleges, Educational Research, History
McCormick, Alexander C.; Staklis, Sandra – 2003
This study examined the addition and expansion of graduate programs at primarily undergraduate colleges. The primary approach of the study was quantitative, consisting of descriptive and multivariate analysis of master's degree programs at colleges that were classified in 1994 as Baccalaureate Colleges. Data came from the 1994 and 2000 Carnegie…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Finance, Graduate Study, Program Development