The students from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University have produced a follow-up to 2015′s “Hooked: Tracking heroin’s hold on Arizona...
We don’t usually delve too deeply into opinion columns (unless dastardly school administrators force us to remind them of that pesky First Amendment thing everyone’s always going on about). T...
Divisive events strain community : Students at the Echo news site of St. Louis Park High School wrote this comprehensive and compelling examination of the physical altercations, online argument...
A program for newcomers at the University of Albany sounds more like induction into a cult than new-student orientation, complete with lockdowns, tightly scheduled cellphone hours and a rule agai...
theactivevoice : > “FIND YOUR VOICE. OWN YOUR VOICE. DON’T BE AFRAID.” > > Five college journalists drawn from campuses from coast-to-coast > got a two-day cras...
The Maryland panhandle town of Frostburg, home to 5,300-student Frostburg State University, decided in 2014 to “privatize” the inspection of rental properties formerly checked by city employ...
How much would it cost to access a year of campus police incident reports regarding sexual assault at Michigan public universities? Almost $5,000. And how much would it cost to receive the di...
A set of master keys to access residence halls at the College of William and Mary were missing for 12 days before police were told, the student newspaper The Flat Hat reported . Student journal...
Today marks the first day of Sunshine Week — a journalist’s favorite holiday. To celebrate, The Post, the student newspaper of Ohio University, conducted an audit of Ohio universities’ com...
Half of all reported fires in George Washington University residence halls started in kitchens over the last six years, the GW Hatchet student newspaper uncovered . The paper requested record...
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Student reporters at The Battalion at Texas A&M University investigated how their university and the University of Texas were investing their endowments of billions of dollars — and discovered...
On Monday, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced — because of a public records request — that it has spent more than $7.5 million on legal and public relations help for ...
The Daily Tar Heel found out that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill paid more than $342,000 to a New York City law firm for one month of work — before the university received a...
In the academic hierarchy, adjunct professors are at the bottom rung of the ladder. They’re professors who serve on short-term contracts without the possibility of tenure. For the past several ...
When a student attempts to take their life on-campus, how much is a university held responsible? At Indiana University , a long wait list meant an imminently suicidal student was placed at the e...
Are government agencies in your state compliant with public records laws? Three graduate students at Indiana University surveyed 90 county agencies across the state and found that nearly half fai...
Last year, the University of Georgia’s student newspaper, The Red & Black, found that a whopping 35 fire extinguishers in lab buildings across campus were expired. That’s dangerous, consideri...
theactivevoice : > These girls rock. Literally. > > Olivia Millar and Marissa Booker from the band Sorry Mom are > bringing together girls with attitude for the South...
Ideally, nothing, right? But that’s not the case at the University of Memphis, where Jonathan A. Capriel of The Daily Helmsman analyzed six years’ worth of public records and found that the ...