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The article discusses imminent changes to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, with a simplified focus on research spending and doctorate awards for R1 status starting in 2025. Topics include the impact on university strategies, the introduction of "research colleges and universities," and the broader recognition of institutional accomplishments beyond research in the revised classification system.

The article informs that Association for Institutional Research's annual conference for higher education professionals working in institutional research, assessment, and related education fields. It mentions about research activity carried out in colleges and universities to collect and analyze data concerning students, faculty, staff, and other educational facilities.

The article reports that the fundamental task of higher education is to guide students to the degrees that lead to better lives. Topics include considered that the Covid-19 has made that task harder as a semester in Trice's shoes illustrates how and thousands of students are weathering forces as small as a hard-drive crash and as large as a pandemic.

The article considers the COVID-19 vaccination program of the University of Florida in the campus and in the surrounding region. Topics discussed include the capacity of the university to conduct a COVID-19 vaccine campaign in light of its expertise and infrastructure, significance of the campaign to the value of higher education, and health challenges facing the students and local community due to the reputation of the state as being open for business and tourism during the pandemic.

The article features several individuals and their everyday life experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic to examine how the pandemic transformed the lives of students and their families after a year as of March 2021. Among the featured persons are students Jeff Ayisire and Deanna Schwartz, and Valparaiso University president José D. Padilla. Also cited are the number of job losses in higher education institutions in the U.S.

The University of Iowa offers an interesting example. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three takeaways from the sale of the historic Iowa College for the Blind, expected this month. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]