The Campus Coverage Project helps student reporters uncover and write about current issues in higher education. Our aim is to help college students investigate and report more effectively on their universities through teaching skills, providing resources, and building awareness.

Since 2012, the Campus Coverage Project has kicked off with a conference in early January at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Seventy-five students from colleges and universities throughout the U.S. are selected from a pool of applicants. During the conference, they attend panel and small-group sessions designed to give them tools and techniques that will help them provide better watchdog coverage of their campuses. They learn from top investigative reporters and higher education writers, and get hands-on computer-assisted reporting training. The Project covers travel and lodging expenses for each attendee.

We encourage students who have attended the Project workshop to submit the watchdog and enterprise stories they do to this website, and to read other students’ articles for ideas and to find out what’s happening in higher education around America. We’ll post the best articles and award a $200 prize to the winning journalist each month.

If you have not attended Campus Coverage Project but want to get involved, let us know! Email campus@ire.org or call (573) 882-3364 for more information or to get involved.

For more information about the participating organizations, visit:
Investigative Reporters and Editors (www.ire.org)
Education Writers Association (www.ewa.org)
Student Press Law Center (www.splc.org)
Lumina Foundation for Education (www.luminafoundation.org)