Scholarly Significance of the Carnegie Commission Sponsored Research Reports: A Citation Analysis
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation, established the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education in 1967 to make a systematic appraisal of higher education and to suggest recommendations for its development during the last third of this century. The publications that flowed from the Carnegie Commission during its existence were of three types: commission reports (n = 21), sponsored research reports (n = 64), and technical reports (n = 20). Evaluations of the Carnegie Commission publications ranged from assessments made by individuals [2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 21] to a comparison of the successes and failures of nine national commission reports on education [7]. Not surprisingly, the individual assessments praised the work of the Carnegie Commission [3], or criticized it [9], or combined praise with criticism [10]. Longanecker and Klein [7], however, asked expert respondents to rate each of the following nine national commission reports: (1) First Report of the Assembly on University Goals and Governance, (2) Final Report of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, (3) Report on the Management and Financing of Colleges of the Committee for Economic Development, (4) Final Report of the National Board on Graduate Education, (5) Report of the National Commission on Financing of Post-Secondary Education, (6) President's Commission on Campus Unrest, (7) Report on Higher Education Task Force, (8) The Second Newman Report: National Policy and Higher Education,