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37-775: At 250 acres (100 ha), the UA Little Rock campus encompasses more than 56 buildings, including the Center for Nanotechnology Integrative Sciences, the Emerging Analytics Center, the Sequoyah Research Center, and the Ottenheimer Library Additionally, UA Little Rock houses special learning facilities that include a learning resource center, art galleries, KUAR public radio station, University Television, and

74-434: A campus-wide wireless network. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The university features more than 100 undergraduate degrees and 60 graduate degrees, including graduate certificates, master's degrees, and doctorates, through both traditional and online courses. Students attend classes in one of the university's three new colleges and a law school: The student life at UA Little Rock

111-560: A student-run newspaper, and fraternity and sorority life. The proximity of the UA Little Rock campus to downtown Little Rock enables students to take advantage of a wide array of recreational, entertainment, educational, internship, and employment opportunities that are not available anywhere else in Arkansas. UA Little Rock provides a variety of on-campus living options for students ranging from traditional resident rooms to multiple-bedroom apartments. The university has four residence halls on

148-608: 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

185-432: 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

222-647: Is typical of public universities in the United States. It is characterized by student-run organizations and affiliation groups that support social, academic, athletic, and religious activities and interests. Some of the services offered by the UA Little Rock Office of Campus Life are intramural sports and fitness programs, diversity programs, leadership development, peer tutoring, student government association, student support programs including groups for non-traditional and first-generation students,

259-877: 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

296-742: 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

333-649: The Higher Education Act of 1965 , as amended. The IPEDS program department of NCES was created in 1992 and began collecting data in 1993. IPEDS collects data on postsecondary education in the United States in the following areas: institutional characteristics, institutional prices, admissions, enrollment, student financial aid, degrees and certificates conferred, student persistence and success (retention rates, graduation rates, and outcome measures), institutional human resources, fiscal resources, and academic libraries. Institutional characteristics data are

370-684: 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

407-817: The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a part of the Institute for Education Sciences within the United States Department of Education . IPEDS consists of twelve interrelated survey components that are collected over three collection periods (fall, winter, and spring) each year as described in the Data Collection and Dissemination Cycle. The completion of all IPEDS surveys is mandatory for all institutions that participate in, or are applicants for participation in, any federal financial assistance program authorized by Title IV of

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444-821: The Ohio Valley Conference for the 2022-23 season. On July 1, 2014, the UA Little Rock Collections and Archives division was created. The division encompasses: The Japanese School of Little Rock (リトルロック日本語補習校 Ritoru Rokku Nihongo Hoshūkō ), a weekend Japanese education program , holds its classes at the University Plaza. 34°43′21″N 92°20′26″W  /  34.722472°N 92.340650°W  / 34.722472; -92.340650 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education , or simply

481-479: 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

518-496: 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

555-675: The IPEDS system replaces the previous U.S. Census and NCES Academic Libraries Survey, which collected data from institutions every other even-number year and was not mandatory. In March 2024, the NCES announced that it would be retiring the Academic Libraries survey after the 2024-2025 data collection period. College Navigator is a "free consumer information tool designed to help students, parents, high school counselors, and others get information about over 7,500 postsecondary institutions in

592-540: The Jack Stephens Center. UA Little Rock offers the following sports: Two Little Rock teams that do not compete in the Sun Belt are the women's swimming and diving team ( Missouri Valley Conference ) and wrestling ( Pac-12 Conference ), neither of which the Sun Belt sponsors. Wrestling is the school's newest sport, starting in 2019, and is the first Division I program in Arkansas. Little Rock will move to

629-467: The U.S. Department of Education released a study about the feasibility of a student unit record system within IPEDS. This Unit Record proposal met with immediate and vocal opposition from congressional leaders as well as colleges and universities. The Department of Education argued that the development of a national student unit record tracking system, with appropriate privacy safeguards, which collects, analyzes and uses longitudinal student progression data

666-614: The United States - such as programs offered, retention and graduation rates, prices, aid available, degrees awarded, campus safety, and accreditation." Most of the data comes from IPEDS, although other data sources within the Department of Education are also used. The website went live in September 2007 as a replacement for College Opportunities On-line (COOL) and was named in a December issue of Money magazine that year as "the best first screen" for researching colleges. In March 2005,

703-529: 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,

740-568: The average dollar amount of aid received by these students. Finally, as a result of the Higher Education Act (1965), as amended, IPEDS collects data to calculate the average net price at each institution for the following two groups: (1) full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students who receive grant and scholarship aid; and (2) full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students who receive Title IV federal student aid. IPEDS collects data on

777-418: 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: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ( IPEDS ) is a system of interrelated surveys conducted annually by

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814-421: 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)

851-633: The eastern side of the campus and the University Village Apartment Complex on the southern side of campus. Six learning communities focusing on criminal justice, arts and culture, majors and careers, future business innovators, nursing careers, and STEM are available to students. UA Little Rock's 14 athletic teams are known as the Little Rock Trojans, with all teams participating in the Ohio Valley Conference . Little Rock's main athletic offices are located in

888-440: The estimated student budgets for students based on living situations (on-campus or off-campus). Basic information is collected from institutions that do not have an open-admissions policy on the undergraduate selection process for first-time, degree/certificate-seeking students. This includes information about admissions considerations, admissions yields, and SAT and ACT test scores. Because enrollment patterns differ greatly among

925-462: The foundation of the entire IPEDS system. These include basic institutional contact information, tuition and fees, room and board charges, control or affiliation, type of calendar system, levels of awards offered, types of programs, and admissions requirements. IPEDS collects institutional pricing data from institutions for full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students. This includes tuition and fee data as well as information on

962-664: The military, and other groups that need to recruit individuals with particular skills use these data extensively. The data also help satisfy the mandate in the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act for information on completions in postsecondary career and technical education programs. IPEDS collects two types of data to help track postsecondary student progress and success. IPEDS collects institutional data on human resources and finances. Information on collection access, expenditures, and services provided by libraries at degree-granting institutions. Data collected through

999-496: 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

1036-465: The number of students who complete a postsecondary education program by type of program and level of award (certificate or degree). Type of program is categorized according to the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP), a detailed coding system for postsecondary instructional programs. These data provide information on the number and location of completers by field. Business and industry,

1073-480: 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

1110-520: 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

1147-488: 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

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1184-489: 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

1221-405: 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

1258-558: The student but would, most importantly, include the student's Social Security Number . Concerns were raised that attending even one course would mean you are added to a federal database for the rest of your life. In a report issued in March 2006 by the Department of Education, Social Security Number was specifically excluded from the Unit Record upload data. It has been suggested that SSN will still be collected but it will be done so by

1295-473: The various types of postsecondary institutions, there is a need for both different measures of enrollment and several indicators of access. In IPEDS, the following enrollment-related data are collected: IPEDS collects data on the number of full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students who receive different types of student financial aid, including grants and loans, from different sources at each institution. IPEDS also collects data to show

1332-425: Was a vital tool for accountability and policy-making. This sparked an immediate reaction regarding the implications of what this means for institutions of higher education. Unit record reporting, as originally conceived, would require institutions that report to IPEDS to upload not summary data but rather to upload files that contain individual student records. These files would contain a wide range of information on

1369-514: 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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