Research Universities

The Carnegie classifications now require only two criteria for R-1 status: spend $50 million in annual research and award at least 70 research doctorates a year. A new designation also recognizes smaller colleges conducting research.

The federal funding freeze highlights the outsize role academic medical centers play in shaping their institutions, John R. Thelin and Neal H. Hutchens write.

While one professor says faculty are “pre-emptively censoring themselves” in response, others are defiant—while another is asking himself, “What would I be willing to lose my job for?”