Carnegie Foundation President Anthony S. Bryk said that the center’s faculty and research staff has extensive experience working with national higher education data.
Last month, the Carnegie Foundation announced that it was transferring responsibility of the classification system to the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University Bloomington. With the classification system retaining the Carnegie name, the Center for Postsecondary Research (CPR) is set to take full responsibility for it on Jan. 1, 2015.
“It’s really a great catch for us. It’s something that complements well the array of projects we have going here,” says Dr. Victor Borden, a professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the Indiana University Bloomington School of Education and the director of the Carnegie Classification project at the Center for Postsecondary Research.
Borden is leading a research staff that has begun working on a Carnegie Classification website transfer and they will be updating it through much of the coming year. The classification project “really does leverage the assets that we have as a research center,” he said.
“We have a pretty good solid infrastructure to build on and [the Carnegie Classification] is a great addition to it,” Borden added.
Carnegie Foundation president Anthony S. Bryk has described the center as highly prepared to administer the Carnegie Classification system given that its faculty and research staff has extensive experience working with national higher education data, including the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), and that CPR’s mission aligns with the foundation’s focus on promoting student success through institutional effectiveness.
“Both organizations are in agreement that gathering and using data is essential for sound decision-making and institutional improvement. Both organizations are involved in work related to student access, assessment, learning and persistence,” Bryk said in a statement.
