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Data Sources & Statistical Compendia | Higher Ed. Research & Policy | Higher Ed. Press & Journals

Data Sources and Statistical Compendia

• Academic Institutional Profiles at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Center for Measuring University Performance at Arizona State University
• College Board College Search (view selected data from the College Board Annual Survey of Colleges)
• Colleges and Universities 2000 (30 years of institutional data) at UC Riverside
• Database of Institutions and Programs Accredited by Recognized United States Accrediting Organizations at the Council for Higher Education Accreditation
• Digest of Education Statistics at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) at NCES
•     College Navigator (search by name or characteristics and view selected IPEDS data)
•     Peer Analysis System (view, analyze, and download IPEDS data)
• NCES Data Analysis System (access NCES data and related reports)
• Measuring Up at the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (state-level data and state-by-state comparisons)
• NCHEMS Information Center for State Higher Education Policymaking and Analysis

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Higher Education Research and Policy

• Research and policy links at the American Council on Education
• Accreditation in the United States at the U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education
• American Educational Research Association, Division J (Postsecondary Education)
• Association for Institutional Research
• Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
•     ASHE Council on Public Policy in Higher Education
• Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at USC
• Center for Higher Education Policy Studies at the University of Twente
• Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley
• Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan
• Center for the Study of Higher Education at Penn State
• Collegiate Learning Assessment at the Council for Aid to Education
• Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University
• Community College Survey of Student Engagement
• Cornell Higher Education Research Institute
• Council for Higher Education Accreditation
• Council for the Study of Community Colleges
• Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA
• Institute for Higher Education at the University of Georgia
• National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
• National Center for the Study of University Engagement at Michigan State
• National Research Council assessment of research doctorate programs
• National Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity at the University of Delaware
• National Survey of Student Engagement
• Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research
• Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education at Williams College

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Higher Education Press and Journals

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Books and Articles

• Community Engagement Prompts New Carnegie Classification (The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 12, 2007)
• A New Carnegie Classification (Inside Higher Ed, December 7, 2006)
• Rankings Tail Wags the Dog (Inside Higher Ed, October 17, 2006)
• Carnegie Foundation Offers Community-Engagement Classification (The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 14, 2006)
• A New Carnegie Classification Arrives (Inside Higher Ed, April 4, 2006)
• College Classifications Get an Overhaul (The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 3, 2006)
• The New Carnegie Classifications (Inside Higher Ed, February 27, 2006)
• Carnegie Overhauls Its Classification System (The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 25, 2005)
• The New Carnegie Classifications (Inside Higher Ed, November 18, 2005)
• Rethinking and Reframing the Carnegie Classification (Change, September/October 2005)
• New Carnegie Classification System Introduces Matrix of Characteristics (The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 24, 2005)
• Radical Reclassification (Inside Higher Ed, January 25, 2005)
• Classification Systems for Two-Year Colleges, New Directions for Community Colleges no. 122 (Summer 2003)
• A New Way of Classifying Colleges Elates Some and Perturbs Others (The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 11, 2000)
• Changes Planned for Carnegie Classifications (The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 5, 1999)
•     Letter to the Editor in response (December 3, 1999)

Opinion

• Hidden in Plain View (Inside Higher Ed, May 10, 2007)
• Academic vs. Nonacademic: a Call for Truth in Labeling (The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 21, 2006)
• Classify Programs, Not Colleges (Inside Higher Ed, December 2, 2005)
• A New Set of Lenses for Looking at Colleges (Inside Higher Ed, November 14, 2005)
• Classification's Complexities (The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 11, 2005)
• How Classifications Can Help Colleges (The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 8, 2000)
•     Letter to the Editor in response (October 13, 2000)

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