{"id":7321,"date":"2019-06-13T16:24:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T20:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/?p=7321"},"modified":"2023-02-15T10:48:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T15:48:17","slug":"research-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/2019\/06\/13\/research-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Southern Gains Higher Status as Research University\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Georgia Southern University has been elevated to an \u201cR2\u201d\nhigh research institution in the revised 2018 Carnegie Classification of\nInstitutions of Higher Learning. It is the second-highest classification for\nresearch institutions in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carnegie ranked 4,424 universities and\ncolleges \u2013 public and private, both for profit and not for profit. Of those,\n120 were&nbsp; classified as R1 or Doctoral Universities: Very High Research&nbsp;&nbsp;\nActivity, and 139 \u2013 including Georgia\nSouthern \u2013 were designated as R2 or Doctoral Universities: High\nResearch&nbsp; &nbsp;Activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis says our faculty have been doing a good job,\u201d said Carl L. Reiber, Ph.D., Georgia Southern\u2019s provost and vice president for academic affairs. \u201cThis is a great accomplishment. From a national perspective, it really does put us in a different league. This will say a lot about who we are to prospective students and faculty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reiber said last year Georgia Southern spent\nabout $17.5 million on research to\nsupport the University\u2019s broader educational goals and in support of the region\u2019s needs. The elevated ranking of\nan&nbsp;&nbsp; R2 came after computing those\nexpenditures with the number of doctoral degrees awarded.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Southern University has been elevated to an \u201cR2\u201d high research institution in the revised 2018 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Learning. It is the second-highest classification for research institutions in the country. Carnegie ranked 4,424 universities and colleges \u2013 public and private, both for profit and not for profit. Of those, 120 were&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-7321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-spring-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}