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30-702: Arkansas State University is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". A-State was founded as the First District Agricultural School in Jonesboro in 1909 by the Arkansas Legislature as a regional agricultural training school. Robert W. Glover , a Missionary Baptist pastor who served in both houses of the Arkansas Legislature from Sheridan (1905–1912), introduced in 1909

60-796: A ranked opponent since joining the FBS in 1992. In 2013, the football team became the Sun Belt Conference champions for a third straight year, finishing with a 7–5 regular season record and won a second consecutive GoDaddy Bowl with a 23–20 victory over then 10-2 Ball State . Approximately 15% of ASU's undergraduate students are members of one of the 21 Greek organizations located on the campus. 35°50′28″N 90°40′47″W  /  35.841082°N 90.679586°W  / 35.841082; -90.679586 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education , or simply

90-460: Is 3.7). This was the third consecutive year of improvement for the ACT/GPA freshman classes for Arkansas State. The Arkansas State Honors College has grown 59% since 2009. The university also posted back-to-back high graduate counts in spring 2012 and spring 2013, producing the most graduates in a two-year period in school history. The university contains the largest library in the state of Arkansas,

120-579: Is located on campus in the historic Wilson Hall. A-State's journalism program reorganized into the College of Media and Communication for fall 2013. The College of Media and Communication is home to three student-led media outlets and a NPR affiliate radio station. The Herald , a weekly student newspaper, was founded in 1921 and has a circulation of 5,000. ASU-TV , a program under the Department of Radio-Television, gives students hands-on experience in

150-608: Is taught, 2) to whom, and 3) in what setting?" wrote Alexander McCormick, a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation and director of the classifications project. As of 2005, the Carnegie Foundation was developing one or more voluntary classification schemes that rely on data submitted by institutions. The first focuses on outreach and community engagement, and the second on "how institutions seek to analyze, understand, and improve undergraduate education." The Carnegie Foundation has no plans to issue printed editions of

180-432: Is the associate degree . High transfer Mixed transfer/career and technical Special Focus Institutions were classified "based on the concentration of degrees in a single field or set of related fields, at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Institutions were determined to have a special focus with concentrations of at least 80 percent of undergraduate and graduate degrees. In some cases this percentage criterion

210-940: The Carnegie Classification , is a framework for classifying colleges and universities in the United States. It was created in 1970 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching . It is managed by the American Council on Education . The framework primarily serves educational and research purposes, where it is often important to identify groups of roughly comparable institutions. The classification generally focuses on types of degrees awarded and related level of activity such as research. The classification includes all accredited , degree -granting colleges and universities in

240-742: The College Board . The number of institutions in each category is indicated in parentheses. Doctorate-granting universities are institutions that awarded at least 20 research/scholarly doctorates in the update year (the most recent being a minor update in 2021). Professional doctorates (D.D.S., J.D., M.D., Pharm.D., etc.) are not included in this count but were added as a separate criterion in 2018–19. The framework further classifies these universities by their level of research activity as measured by research expenditures, number of research doctorates awarded, number of research-focused faculty, and other factors. A detailed list of schools can be found in

270-684: The Indiana University School of Education in Bloomington, Indiana . The voluntary Classification on Community Engagement is managed by the Public Purpose Institute at Albion College . In March 2022, the universal and elective Carnegie classifications moved to the nonprofit American Council on Education in Washington, D.C. Information used in these classifications comes primarily from IPEDS and

300-479: The list of research universities in the United States . Master's colleges and universities are institutions that "awarded at least 50 master's degrees in 2013–14, but fewer than 20 doctorates." Baccalaureate colleges are institutions where " bachelor's degrees accounted for at least 10 percent of all undergraduate degrees and they awarded fewer than 50 master's degrees (2013–14-degree conferrals)." Associate's colleges are institutions whose highest degree

330-549: The 2015 Classification update retains the same structure of six parallel classifications, initially adopted in 2005. The 2005 report substantially reworked the classification system, based on data from the 2002–2003 and 2003–2004 school years. In 2015, the Carnegie Foundation transferred responsibility for the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education to the Center for Postsecondary Research of

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360-505: The Dean B. Ellis Library. The university has more than 100,000 alumni and offers programs at the doctoral, specialist's, master's, bachelor's, and associate degree levels. They are organized into several colleges: Agriculture, Engineering & Technology, Business, Education & Behavioral Science, Liberal Arts & Communication, Nursing & Health Professions, Sciences & Mathematics, and Undergraduate Studies. In 2018, Arkansas State

390-644: The Indians, are now known as the Red Wolves . In 2012, the Red Wolves football team became Sun Belt Conference champions for a second straight year, finishing the regular season with a 9–3 record, and capped off its successful season with its first bowl game victory since becoming a Division I-A (FBS) program with a 17–13 victory over Kent State in the GoDaddy.com Bowl , as well as earning its first win over

420-593: The United States that are represented in the National Center for Education Statistics ' Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). The Carnegie Classification was created by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education in 1970. The classification was first published in 1973 with updates in 1976, 1987, 1994, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2018 and 2021. To ensure continuity of the classification framework and to allow comparison across years,

450-608: The bowl began at 8:00 p.m. CST and aired on ESPN . The Kent State Golden Flashes of the Mid-American Conference competed against the Sun Belt Conference champion Arkansas State Red Wolves . Arkansas State won the Sun Belt championship, finishing the season with a 9–3 record and a 7–1 record in conference play. The team made its second consecutive appearance in the bowl and for

480-493: The classifications. Their website has several tools that let researchers and administrators view classifications. The 2005 revision also introduced the "basic classification", an update of the original classification scheme that: 2013 GoDaddy.com Bowl The 2013 GoDaddy.com Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game held on January 6, 2013, at Ladd–Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama . The 14th edition of

510-421: The doctorate are classified as having Postbaccalaureate graduate programs. These programs are classified by the fields in which the degrees are awarded. Institutions that offer doctoral degrees, including medical and veterinary degrees, are classified by the field in which they award degrees. The Enrollment Profile of institutions are classified according to (a) the level of the highest degree awarded and (b)

540-523: The fall of 1992. A second doctoral program, in environmental science, was begun in the fall of 1997 and the doctoral program in heritage studies began in the fall of 2001. Newer doctoral programs are in environmental science, molecular biosciences, and physical therapy. In the fall of 2016, Arkansas State enrolled the first class of approximately 115 students to its branch of the New York Institute of Technology 's medical school. The medical school

570-545: The field of television broadcasting. Starting in fall 2013, an Internet-based student radio station, Red Wolf Radio , was added to the student media. Arkansas State is also home to KASU , a 100,000-watt FM station, which is the oldest NPR affiliate west of the Mississippi River. Arkansas State participates as a member of the NCAA Division I Sun Belt Conference . The athletic teams, previously known as

600-401: The name to Arkansas State University. In the fall of 2014, A-State welcomed its most academically prepared freshman class. The result of several years of growing both admission standards and increasing on-campus housing, A-State's incoming first-year first-time student composite ACT was 23.9 with an average high school GPA of 3.47 (Current freshman ACTs are 20-26 and the average high school GPA

630-496: The number of full-time students to one-third the number of part-time students. Two-year colleges are classified using a different scale than four-year and higher institutions. Setting is based on the percentage of full-time undergraduates who live in institutionally-managed housing. Two-year institutions are not classified by setting. The 2005 classification scheme introduced a "set of multiple, parallel classifications" that are "organized around three central questions: 1) What

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660-480: The percentage of students who transfer to the institution, and only applies to four-year or higher institutions. Size and Setting classifies institutions according to (a) size of their student body and (b) percentage of student who reside on campus. This does not apply to exclusively graduate and professional institutions and special-focus institutions. The size of institutions is based on their full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment. FTEs are calculated by adding

690-520: The proportion of undergraduate and graduate programs (defined by their 4-digit CIP) that coexist. The Graduate Instructional Program classification indicates (a) if the institution awards just master's degrees or master's degrees and doctoral degrees, and (b) in what general categories they predominantly award graduate degrees. Institutions that do not award graduate degrees are not classified by this scheme. Institutions that offer graduate and professional programs (such as law schools) but do not award

720-551: The ratio of Arts and sciences and professional fields (as defined in the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP)) and (b) the coexistence of programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels (again using the CIP). The framework categorizes institutions based on the proportion of undergraduate majors in arts and sciences or professional fields, based on their two-digit CIP. The framework categorizes institutions based on

750-489: The ratio of part-time to full-time students (degree seeking students in four-year institutions). Selectivity is classified according to the SAT and ACT scores of first-time first-year students. This classification only applies to four-year or higher institutions. As of the 2010 edition the criteria were as follows ( http://classifications.carnegiefoundation.org/methodology/ugrad_profile.php ) Transfer origin characterizes

780-405: The ratio of undergraduate to graduate students. The framework classifies institutions' Undergraduate Profile according to (a) the proportion of part-time undergraduate students to full-time students, (b) the institutions selectivity in admitting undergraduate students, and (c) the percentage of students who transfer into the university. The framework classifies Enrollment Status according to

810-431: The resolution calling for the establishment of four state agricultural colleges, including the future ASU. In 1918, ASU began offering a two-year college program. In 1925, it became First District Agricultural and Mechanical College . A four-year degree program was begun in 1930. A & M College became Arkansas State College in 1933. In 1967, the Arkansas Legislature elevated the college to university status and changed

840-577: The second consecutive year was playing without its head coach. Arkansas State had lost the prior appearance to Northern Illinois in the 2012 game . The GoDaddy.com Bowl was Kent State's first bowl game appearance in forty years; the team last played in the 1972 Tangerine Bowl . Kent State went 11–1 in regular season games and 8–0 in MAC play before losing the MAC Championship Game to Northern Illinois ; their eleven victories set

870-568: Was classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The university nevertheless maintains a focus on undergraduate instruction and small class sizes, with a student-faculty ratio of 16:1, ranked #76 in undergraduate teaching nationwide as of 2020. The university is ranked #1013 (UniRank 2024-2025), #1119 (SCImago Rankings 2018), and #1645 (URAP Rankings 2020-2021) in the global university rankings. Master's degree graduate programs were initiated in 1955 and ASU began offering its first doctoral degree, in educational leadership, in

900-514: Was relaxed if an institution identified a special focus on the College Board 's Annual Survey of Colleges, or if an institution's only accreditation was from a body related to the special focus categories". Two-year Four-year Tribal Colleges are institutions that belong to the American Indian Higher Education Consortium . The Undergraduate Instructional Program classification combines (a)

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