<p>I've always had great respect for Trinity, still do. Not sure I'm in total agreement with the vector of the new president if described accurately in the article. "But the university's real value could be in bringing together researchers, school districts, residents and public agencies and helping them make good decisions based on data, not politics." That is the role of universities, Ahblurg said." The whole article just sounds to me that it's a little overboard with the community outreach, touchy-feely stuff and a little shallow on solid academics. Sure hope Trinity does not waste its reputation as a top notch academic university. I don't completely agree with his view of the "role a universities".</p>
<p>I attended many of the festivities at TU this past weekend, including the inauguration, and I say to you, do not worry about TU academics. Dr. Ahlburg said that TU will continue to have the small classes, wonderful student/teacher interaction, great research opps. etc. </p>
<p>He is more public in outreach talk than perhaps Dr. Brazil was, though TU has long done many things in/with the SA community, just under the radar of most people.</p>
<p>I find Dr. Ahlburg and his wife to be two very dynamic people, and I think Trinity will benefit from their leadership.</p>
<p>I have wondered about that, too. I think it has mostly to do with what is called Carnegie classification, and because Trinity has those 5 (pesky, to folks like you amd me) graduate programs, but no doctoral programs, I don’t think it will happen. </p>
<p>FWIW, over the years, some schools that were previously in the Master’s category, have been moved (U of Richmond, for example). With its schools, I don’t see how that happened. I know of other LACs that are categorized as National that have some graduate degrees, though.</p>
<p>If you ever wondered, I have looked at a lot of stats, and I think in the national category TU would come in ~30, if it ever got placed in that group.</p>
<p>That is interesting. This category has never made any sense to me, and it seems as though Trinity and Villanova should be in the LAC category. Gloworm, can you explain a little further about graduate but no doctoral. It seems like a lot of LACs have some small graduate program. Why does it disqualify Trinity?</p>
<p>and look at a place like Denison U. that has NO grad programs and is classified as a LAC and is in all the guidebooks. Trinity as a 30 sounds pretty good to me!</p>
<p>Trinity offers 5 Master’s degrees. These programs together are only ~200 students.
IT offers no Doctoral degrees. The Master’s programs at TU are: MIT, School Psychology, Accounting, Health Care Administration, and one other that I can’t remember, but they are all listed on the website somewhere. No grad students live on campus.</p>