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Matt Krupnick

Matt Krupnick is a freelance reporter and editor who contributes regularly to The New York Times and The Hechinger Report. He was a reporter with the Center for Public Integrity's State Integrity Investigation and is a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Education Writers Association. He reported from Mexico while living in Oaxaca. Matt now lives in Chicago.

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Brad Parton, a rancher and educator in Fayetteville, Tenn., feeds some of his 25 cows on his farm.
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Divided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Rural Education

Rural colleges aren’t supplying the workers rural businesses and agriculture need

by Matt Krupnick January 30, 2019February 9, 2022
Students at Walker Valley High School in Cleveland, Tennessee, work with machinery in the school’s mechatronics lab.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Rural Education, Solutions

As jobs grow hard to fill, businesses join the drive to push rural residents toward college

by Matt Krupnick January 28, 2019February 9, 2022
A statue of George Mason on George Mason University's Fairfax campus in Fairfax, Virginia. The university offers digital badges rather than degrees or certificates for the completion of some courses.
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

As students flock to credentials other than degrees, quality-control concerns grow

by Matt Krupnick November 16, 2018April 8, 2021
Ebony McGee, a Vanderbilt University associate professor who studies diversity in education, in her office at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College. McGee says black faculty at predominantly white institutions are either ignored or closely scrutinized. “They don’t want to stay in that toxic environment, so they leave.”
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Race and Equity, Universities, Inc.

After colleges promised to increase it, hiring of black faculty declined

by Matt Krupnick October 2, 2018April 8, 2021
Tuition is being cut by about $25,000 this year to attract more students to Mills College in Oakland, California, one of several colleges and universities freezing or reducing tuition this fall in the face of an enrollment decline and consumer backlash.
Posted inHigher Education, News, Solutions, Universities, Inc.

Bending to the law of supply and demand, some colleges are dropping their prices

by Matt Krupnick August 30, 2018April 8, 2021
Roosevelt Montás, who spoke no English when he arrived in New York City from the Dominican Republic at age 12, leads Columbia University’s Freedom and Citizenship summer program for New York high school students.
Posted inNews

Reading, writing and arguing: Can a summer of big questions push students to college?

by Matt Krupnick August 1, 2018April 8, 2021
Rutgers Newark sophomore Stacy Tyndall, 19, laughs at an "Orange Is the New Black"-themed wall of dormitory rules in her campus residence hall. Tyndall, a criminal justice major who wants to be a judge, grew up 15 minutes from the campus.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Solutions

How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice

by Matt Krupnick May 2, 2018April 8, 2021
Oil references are everywhere at Williston State College, at the heart of North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield.
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Divided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Rural Education

For rural colleges, good vocational teachers are hard to find

by Matt Krupnick April 23, 2018February 9, 2022
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Rural Education

Even if they want to go to college, millions of adults live in higher education “deserts”

by Matt Krupnick April 9, 2018April 8, 2021
A girl at recess runs at the Heart Butte School on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northern Montana. Overshadowed by attention to the challenges faced by nonwhite high school graduates in cities, low-income black, Hispanic and native American students in rural areas are equally unlikely to go on to college.
Posted inNews

Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations

by Matt Krupnick January 18, 2018February 9, 2022

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