{"id":134,"date":"2016-01-11T17:09:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/?page_id=134"},"modified":"2026-01-11T13:19:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:19:56","slug":"higher-ed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/beats\/higher-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Ed beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Covering higher education<\/strong> is especially challenging for college students who are already in a complex system and whose outlines are not easy to see.\u00a0 Nevertheless, college students need news about their college and the policies of other colleges around the state. And generally, educators are happy to have questions from students, unlike the sources in some other beats were the best you can hope for is tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the main topics according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewa.org\/\">Education Writers Association\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a>include admissions, costs, funding, diversity,\u00a0 the role of sports,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free speech on campus<\/strong> is a frequent topic of conversation and controversy.\u00a0\u00a0Radford University has annual reports\u00a0 about campus speech. Here is the link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radford.edu\/student-affairs\/_documents\/free-express-annual-report-2025.pdf\">2025 report<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radford.edu\/student-affairs\/_documents\/free-expression-annual-report-2024.pdf\">2024 report<\/a>.\u00a0 Here is a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruspeechless.com\">RUspeechless.com<\/a>, a web site critical of the university&#8217;s speech policies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RESOURCES in Virginia\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At RU, statistics on enrollment and majors are available at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.radford.edu\/electronic-fact-book\/\">Electronic Fact book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schev.edu\/\">SCHEV<\/a> has reports on higher education in Virginia. Especially interesting is the December 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schev.edu\/research-publications\/strategic-plan\">Strategic Plan<\/a>.\u00a0 One interesting point is the celebration of the 250th anniversary of US independence with debates across Virginia campuses in the &#8220;braver angels&#8221; format.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/jlarc.virginia.gov\/\">Joint Legislative Audit &amp; Review Committee<\/a> has reports on all areas of government in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covering higher education is especially challenging for college students who are already in a complex system and whose outlines are not easy to see.\u00a0 Nevertheless, college students need news about their college and the policies of other colleges around the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/beats\/higher-ed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":66,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-134","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134\/revisions\/2265"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}