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These student-written stories demonstrate watchdog journalism happening on college campuses across the United States. One hundred and fifty students from 30 different colleges participated in Campus Coverage Project over the last two years, and these articles represent some of their work. Follow the links and read the stories to find out what’s happening and to glean ideas for research and writing on your own campus.
by Lindsey Cook
University of Georgia
Adventure may have to take a back-seat to academics at Global LEAD, a private study abroad program that partnered with the University of Georgia in 2009.
The university has proposed distinguishing the heart-pumping excitement of some experiential learning activities from more academically rigorous forms of instruction. Currently students at more than 10 universities can earn six upper-level credits for...
by Lindsey Hobbs
Otterbein University
In the first of a two-part series on campus security, Lindsey Hobbs digs into the process that protects some Otterbein University students from the criminal records they might earn off-campus.
Otterbein's security department has trained to become a fully certified police department. However, it still diverts most campus crime to a campus judicial council, thus helping students avoid criminal charges. According to...
by Lindsey Cook
University of Georgia
The University of Georgia is investigating claims by a 25-year veteran computer science professor that he has come under cyber attack.
Allegations of fraud have centered around UGA professor Hamid Arabnia and WORLDCOMP, an annual World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing that Arabnia runs.
The individual responsible for creating a Google website called "worlddump1," which lambasts...
by Jessie Hellmann
University of Southern Indiana
Ninety-five percent of the student government positions at stake in recent elections were uncontested at University of Southern Indiana. Digging into the data behind uncontested positions, reporter and news editor Jessie Hellman found a trend.
During the 2011-2012 elections, out of the eight positions on the ballot, three were contested. Voter turnout has been under 10 percent for at least the past five...
by Hilary Niles
Campus Coverage Project
SUZANNE MCBRIDE is associate chair of the Journalism Department at Columbia College Chicago, where she teaches community news and investigative reporting. She’s co-publisher of ChicagoTalks.org, a local news site that’s won national awards from Investigative Reporters and Editors and several other journalism groups. Suzanne is also editor and publisher of ...
by Andrew Averill
University of Wisconsin-Madison
A new perk is available for University of Wisconsin athletes who make it to the Rose Bowl: a free flight to anywhere in the world. They'll have to fend for themselves wherever they land, and pay their own way back to campus.
The Badger Herald did not find any conclusive evidence that an athlete tried to take advantage of the new travel reimbursement protocols, according to emails and...
by Jillian McCarter
Butler University
Butler University's Student Government Association has refused to release the detailed vote count from recent elections for class officer and presidential spots. Currently, only four people are allowed to see how many students voted for each candidate.
In years prior, this information was not released because it was not requested. When The Collegian asked for results this year, the current SGA president said that the...
by Jessie Hellmann
University of Southern Indiana
A Feb. 29 tornado in Newburgh, Indiana, triggered the University of Southern Indiana's emergency text-message protocol, but the alerts were 13 minutes late getting out.
Security Director Steven Woodall said the RAVE alerts were delayed because the dispatchers at the security office had trouble logging into the dispatch system.
Freshman criminal justice major and international studies major Caleb...
