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Submissions must include the writer's name and phone number. Upon reading the Nota Bene article on revisions to the Carnegie Classification in the January-February issue, I was disturbed to find my remarks misrepresented in a few places. I would like to set the record straight. The distinction between ranking and classification is an important one, even if it is lost on many in higher education. I am very careful to avoid characterizing the classification as a ranking system.