Katherine Mangan covers issues of community colleges, college completion, and student success as a senior writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education. In more than 30 years there, she has written extensively about developmental education, dual enrollment, transfer, and access, as well as about sexual assault, campus protests, hazing, and free-speech concerns. She has been a frequent presenter at national higher-education conferences and a guest on numerous radio programs. She was on a Chronicle team honored with an Education Writers Association award for investigative reporting for “The Gates Effect.” She is the author of “Improving The Transfer Handoff,” a special Chronicle report. Follow her on Twitter @KatherineMangan, or email her at katherine.mangan@chronicle.com.
Stories by this Author
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Duck and Cover‘More Cowardly Than Cautious’: Faculty Decry College Leaders’ Silence on DEI Attacks
When speaking out carries political risks, but staying quiet seems like complicity, the leaders are caught in a bind. -
Race on Campus
What Does a Majority-White University Owe the Majority-Black City It Calls Home?
How we reported a story about Tulane’s $135-million effort to revitalize a behemoth building in downtown New Orleans. -
Academic Freedom
Indiana’s Funding Ban for Kinsey Sex-Research Institute Threatens Academic Freedom, IU President Says
The legislature’s move, largely symbolic, forbids state spending on Indiana University’s prominent center amid false allegations about its founder and current researchers. -
Educational Mobility
White, Wealthy Students Are Overrepresented Among Common App Transfer Applicants
The Common App reports that only a quarter of applicants using its transfer platform were from underrepresented minority groups and a third were first-generation college students. -
'Compassionate Care'
One of America’s Oldest Hospitals Lay Abandoned. Then a University Stepped In.
New Orleans’s Charity Hospital was the site of horrors when Hurricane Katrina hit. Now, Tulane is spending hundreds of millions to bring it back to life. -
Race on Campus
What Do DEI Officers Do, and Why Are They Under Attack? An Explainer.
Bills in at least 19 states would impede or ban their work. We explain why colleges employ them, who is attracted to this job, and how it has evolved. -
Splitting $1 Million
Two Community Colleges That Reimagined the Student Experience Share the Top Aspen Prize
Amarillo and Imperial Valley Colleges were recognized for such innovative practices as dispatching professors to teach at local high schools and overhauling their relationships with local employers. -
Leadership
New Mexico State’s Beleaguered Chancellor Resigns, Effective Immediately
Dan Arvizu oversaw a period of turmoil and rapid turnover at the institution’s equity, inclusion, and diversity office. -
Diversity
Black Students at New Mexico State U. Wanted a Diversity Office; Now Some Want Out
They say the new equity, inclusion, and diversity office isn’t the champion they’d hoped for. -
Race on Campus
Despite Political Attacks, Interest in Black Studies Holds Steady
A new AP course — already under attack — could bolster the programs, which often challenge the racist structures of the colleges that house them.
