Ron Harichandran, Ph.D., the University’s Vice Provost for Research, said the new classification will bring increased visibility to the University as a research institution, enhance the ability to ...

In 2001, the World Health Assembly unanimously approved the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Twenty-five years ...

The American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching have released a new research classification of colleges and universities. The new framework relies on an ...

The International Classification of Diseases, or ICD, is a classification system for all physical and mental diseases produced by the World Health Organization (WHO). It’s used for diagnosis, research ...

The workshop discussed how rurality can best be conceptualized and measured in today’s economy and society. The workshop provided background on the origins, rationales, uses, underlying data, and ...

The recent decision by the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation to simplify the classification of research universities may have been well meaning, but it represents a serious ...

If most people know anything at all about the Carnegie Classifications—and many don’t—it starts and stops with one phrase: R-1. “Research 1,” the term the classification system attached to ...

The University of Memphis is a top research institution in the country, a recognition announced Thursday after a years-long mission to up the research activity and awards at the university. U of M has ...