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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 Lindsey Cook
University of Georgia
This is follow-up reporting on international program regulations at the University of Georgia. Read the first story here.
In half of University study abroad classes from summer 2011, every student received an A, according to documents obtained by The Red & Black. Seventy-five percent of classes averaged a grade report of A or A minus.
Lacking academic regulation of existing study abroad programs in certain...
By Frannie Sprouls
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Since the afternoon of Jan. 23, Amanda Wekesser has not been able to sleep in her own bed, access all of her clothes or complete her homework.
Wekesser is a Selleck Quadrangle resident assistant at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln whose room was infested with live bedbugs. And she wasn't allowed to tell her residents about it, she said.
"It's not fair that I'd be asked to hide this from them," Wekesser said. "(My residents) could be at risk and not even know it, because Housing...
by Mac Cerullo
University of Connecticut
Jim Calhoun and Geno Auriemma are worth a lot to the University of Connecticut, between the money they bring in annually in ticket sales and the publicity their programs bring to the school. But are they worth their own weight in gold?
Not based on their annual earnings.
According to the most recently available Connecticut payroll data, Calhoun and Auriemma — head coaches of the university's men's and women's basketball teams, respectively — are the two highest paid state employees for the second...
by Lindsey Cook
University of Georgia
Since President Michael Adams joined the University of Georgia in 1997, he has emphasized global education. Now, 2,000 students — a quarter of the student body — study abroad each year.
But with rapid growth, administrators are struggling to keep up with study abroad regulation. Fewer than half of the international programs include post-trip evaluation data, according to documents obtained by The Red & Black.
Professors and directors of study abroad programs said organizational gaps remain in academic...
Note to student journalists: This can be localized at any of your schools that have lottery scholarships.
By Chelsea Boozer
Managing Editor, The Daily Helmsman
University of Memphis President Shirley Raines is among officials opposed to a bill in Congress that they said might cause a decrease in funding for HOPE Lottery Scholarships.
A measure to legalize online poker playing in the United States has been proposed by Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), something many state governors argue would create competition for state lottery revenue — and...
by Jessie Hellmann
University of Southern Indiana
Last fall, the University of Southern Indiana's Student Government Association voted to include sorority and fraternity at-large memberships to SGA ranks, adding to the already strong Greek influence in the government. Of the SGA members, 12 are members of Greek life, making 35 percent of SGA members Greek. But only about 486 students — 4.5 percent of the student body — are Greek life members.
Some argue that it can be simple for Greek students to become SGA president if elected by...
by Hilary Niles
Campus Coverage Project
Our first in an occasional series of interviews with professional investigative journalists features Jill Riepenhoff.
JILL RIEPENHOFF, an investigative projects reporter, joined The Columbus Dispatch in 1985. She and her colleagues have won dozens of state and national awards for their work on Ohio’s foreclosure woes, the state’s flawed teacher-discipline system, state laws aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration, youth sports, and abuses of a federal student privacy law by...
