Staff Reporter, The Faculty
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Expertise: Recruitment and retention of faculty members | Faculty pay | Academic job market | Work-life balance in the academy | Efforts to diversify the professoriate | Dual-career academics | Graduate students as future academics | Adjunct faculty members
Background: Audrey Williams June, who joined The Chronicle of Higher Education in 2001, writes about the academic workplace. Topics of recent articles have included faculty poaching, the struggles of dual-career couples, graduate students second-guessing their quest to become professors, faculty mentor programs as key retention tools, and a well-known adjunct activist.
June began covering her current beat after a six-year stint as a business reporter for The Chronicle's Money & Management section, where she wrote about the higher-education bond market, auxiliary enterprises, and town-gown relations. For three years – from 2005 through 2007 – June was also a member of the team that produced The Chronicle's annual executive-compensation project, which is cited by media outlets nationwide.
Before to coming to The Chronicle, June was a business reporter for The Charlotte Observer (1996-2001), in North Carolina, where she chronicled the ups and downs of entrepreneurs before landing a spot on the paper’s team of banking reporters. She also worked for The Telegraph (1994-96), in Macon, Ga., as an environmental reporter.
June earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in economics from Florida A&M University in 1994.
Media appearances: June has been interviewed on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, in addition to several public-radio affiliates. She has also been frequently interviewed by national and local newspapers.
