NOVA President Joins Carnegie Classification’s Institutional Roundtable to Advance Student Social, Economic Mobility

September 21, 2022 / General NOVA News

President Anne M. Kress will join a national roundtable of higher education leaders to review the Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education through the lens of students’ social and economic mobility. The Carnegie Classifications Institutional Roundtable, whose members are college and university presidents representing a diverse range of institution types and campuses, will commence their work in November.  

“It is truly an honor to help create a new Carnegie Classifications model that will help higher education institutions better serve our nation’s students,” Kress said. “This impactful work closely aligns with NOVA’s commitment to inclusive excellence. It will help colleges across the country provide students with equitable access to opportunity as they work toward a brighter future.”

The American Council on Education (ACE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching announced earlier this year that they are collaborating on a new version of the Carnegie Classifications – the leading framework for recognizing and describing institutional diversity in U.S. higher education. Roundtable members and data experts who make up the Technical Review Panel will work to create a new Social and Economic Mobility Classification that better captures the range of diverse missions in higher education and supports constructive efforts to use the Carnegie Classifications to better promote institutional learning and advance economic mobility. A framework is expected in late 2023 before the new Classifications are released in 2024.

Fellow National Institution Roundtable Members Include:

  • Sylvia Burwell, president, American University
  • Roslyn Clark Artis, president, Benedict College
  • Sue Ellspermann, president, Ivy Tech Community College
  • Jack DeGioia, president, Georgetown University
  • Joan Gabel, president, University of Minnesota
  • Carrie Hauser, president and CEO, Colorado Mountain College
  • Paul LeBlanc, president, Southern New Hampshire University
  • Candice McQueen, president, Lipscomb University
  • Felix Matos Rodriguez, chancellor, City University of New York
  • Juan Munoz, chancellor, University of California – Merced
  • Thomas Parham, president, California State University – Dominguez Hills
  • Bill Pink, president, Ferris State University
  • Madeline Pumariega, president, Miami Dade College
  • Philip Rogers, president, East Carolina University
  • Tom Stritikus, president, Fort Lewis College
  • David Wilson, president, Morgan State University
  • Kevin Worthen, president, Brigham Young University

To learn more about the work on the new Carnegie Classifications or to contact the Classifications staff team, please email carnegie@acenet.edu.

Submitted by:
Hoang Nguyen, Assoc. Director of External Comms., HDNguyen@nvcc.edu