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The article discusses Centering Racially Minoritized Student Voices in High-Impact Practices, which includes High-impact practices, such as learning communities, undergraduate research, internships, study abroad, and culminating experiences, are lauded as transformative and particularly beneficial for historically underrepresented students. Participation gaps among racially minoritized students, and skepticism about dominant perspectives raise questions about quality and equity.

A satisfactory relationship between doctoral students and their advisors is an essential component of successful doctoral training. Using responses to a national survey of doctoral students in the US from 27 universities and 11 disciplines, this paper explores factors affecting students' satisfaction with the advising relationship. We find that both the criteria used in selecting an advisor and reported advisor behaviours influence satisfaction. Moreover, there are pronounced disciplinary differences in both choice criteria and advisor behaviour, and these are more robust predictors of satisfaction than individual characteristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education's classification system. One goal of the classification system was to call attention to, and emphasize the importance of, the considerable institutional diversity of U.S. higher education. The classification provided a way to represent that diversity by grouping roughly comparable institutions into meaningful, analytically manageable categories. It enabled researchers to make reasonable comparisons among similar institutions and to contrast them with groups of different ones. America's high-status research universities were clustered together, as were the most prestigious liberal arts colleges. This fact, combined with the new classification's pedigree, may have influenced its broad acceptance: these groupings seemed reasonable and reflected the conventional wisdom. The classification's use soon reached beyond the research community, many others saw value in a classification system created and maintained by an independent, reputable agent such as the Carnegie Commission and its parent organization.