Maria Archangelo

🚨We're excited to welcome @TexasTribune and @McGeeReports to our Local Reporting Network. Kate has been breaking huge stories all summer, and we are pumped to work with her. And, we're adding a community colleges reporter to the team! Learn more: rb.gy/h7twv

Huge congrats to Alivia, one of our six amazing HBCU fellows 🎓

Meet our newest reporter! @AdamEchelman joined our partner @CalMatters to cover California community colleges. (1 out of every 12 undergrads in the country is a California community college student.) We are so excited to work with Adam!👏 opencampusmedia.org/2023/03/…

Doris Mackins had been retired for more than a decade when she decided to return to Coppin State University to finish her degree in 2022. "The thought came to me and I just acted on it." (This @JasperJSmith_ story was co-published with @CapitalBNews!) opencampusmedia.org/2023/03/…

We're expanding our local network to Chicago through a partnership with @WBEZ. Apply here: phh.tbe.taleo.net/phh01/ats/… Join our growing team of local reporters on the beat across the country.

For decades, a number of Southern states have distributed almost all of their financial aid through merit scholarships. Large gaps remain in who benefits, especially by race. Black students have been particularly underrepresented. opencampusmedia.org/2022/05/…

Ask college students how states should give out financial aid and most say it should be based more on financial need than on academic performance. 71% of 500 college students surveyed by College Pulse for Open Campus said states should focus more on need. opencampusmedia.org/2022/05/…

California community colleges lost more than 300,000 students over the past two years. Here are some of their stories, reported by @odentaylor1 @emmahhall1 @emilyschen @emargaretten opencampusmedia.org/2022/04/…

When a multi-level marketing company struck a deal with the U. of Mississippi, it got more than research into lavender oil. It got credibility. opencampusmedia.org/2022/04/…

When we started working with @elpasomatters just over a year ago, no one had been covering higher ed there for nearly three decades. Help us continue to build this beat and provide this border region the in-depth coverage it deserves. Apply here: journalismjobs.com/1673880-h…

Mary Solis' students hope having a flagship company for the region will create better future jobs. The high school principal says that, up until now, many people in the Valley have felt like they only have four career options, and three of them come with a gun.

While drops in community college enrollments have slowed nationally, they've accelerated in Pennsylvania. @emmafolts on what that means for Allegheny County. opencampusmedia.org/2022/02/…

Come work with us! We're looking for a full-time operations manager to support the day-to-day functioning of our far-flung and growing team — national reporters, local network reporters, partner newsrooms, and fundraising staff. opencampusmedia.freshteam.co…

Apply to be our operations manager and help us strengthen our organization. Starting salary for the full-time position is $65K. opencampusmedia.freshteam.co…

Larry Fordham Jr. has been incarcerated in Florida’s prisons since 1990, but the state department of ed doesn’t consider him a resident. To qualify for in-state tuition at a college program offered in prison, he had to track down a decades-old deed. opencampusmedia.org/2022/01/…

“My pursuit of a degree started in 2016, approximately 16 years into a 55-years-to-life sentence. I would have to live to be 85 years old to evaluate whether an associate’s degree will break the cycle of incarceration that’s circled my adulthood.” opencampusmedia.org/2022/01/…

“My brothers said I had to go to college because I was my mom’s last chance to get out of the 'hood. They said I had to do better, get out of Stockton, be the one.” — Leti Paniagua opencampusmedia.org/4897-2/