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This is the home for a new effort to bring investigative reporting training to college and university students. Our goal is to help student reporters and editors serve as better watchdogs on campus.
You’ll find resources for student journalists, updates on upcoming training and links highlighting some of the great watchdog work being done on campuses around the country.
The stories below were written by student journalists who participated in the Campus Coverage Project workshop.
By Sarah Phinney
This article takes a look at the possible expansion of online classes for students who live on-campus at Ball State University. It also examines how other universities around the country are using online technology to educate students who live on-campus. The article complements the broadcast Phinney created also on...
By Timothy Sandoval
Student activity fees that support the Sacramento State athletics program have become its largest source of revenue, outpacing dwindling direct and indirect university support.
Student activity fee revenue made up $4.5 million, or 29 percent of total athletics revenue.
By Chelsea Boozer
Gas fumes filled the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music on Wednesday from morning until early afternoon, causing at least two faculty members, who reported headaches and nausea, to leave work early. And, it's happened before.
The fumes came from five gas-powered leaf blowers that were being used outside by Physical Plant employees. The odor entered the building through its ventilation system, located on the east side of the building, and became trapped there because the...
By Amanda Seitz
This article on Miami University's lack of social media policy reports on the university's actions to stop inappropriate social networking behavior among students. The school has no policy specifically regarding social media and few that relate, yet it has responded to complaints about offensive Facebook parties by meeting with students and organizing protests against these parties. The reporter public-record requested emails regarding an "Indian Theme Party" and...
By Frannie Sprouls, edited by Kiah Haslett
In 2009, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Residence Hall Association took away trays from the student dining hall, citing finances and a push for sustainability. But two years after the fact, the effects of the trayless system have proved nearly impossible to measure because of the way the dining hall keeps information about utilities, food waste and food orders.
By Chelsea Boozer
Overflowing trashcans and a laundry-littered floor tend to be common scenes in the home of a college student.
A bathroom ceiling spotted with black mold is more infrequent — unless you live in The University of Memphis-owned Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house at 3609 Watauga Ave.
Three students currently live in the house, where the mold has been visible since fall 2009, according to former resident Nathaniel Coleman, vice president...
By Chelsea Boozer
Student paid fees fund tuition for SAC, SGA officer
This first article in this series examined the perks of undergraduate administration, including paid tuition, parking and stipends for six full-time students totaling $68,752 and funded by The U of M’s Student Activity Fee, a mandatory charge included in student tuition. In addition we found this was approved by University administration each year.*
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