Vice President and Editorial Director
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Expertise: Higher-education policy | Campus leadership | Fund raising | College and university governance and trustees | Executive compensation | State-government policy and politics
Background: Jeffrey J. Selingo was named vice president and editorial director of The Chronicle of Higher Education in August 2011. Since August 2007 he served as editor, directing more than 60 editors, reporters, and correspondents, in print and online.
For five years before becoming editor, he served as an assistant managing editor and senior editor at The Chronicle, overseeing coverage of higher-education policy, campus leadership, and fund raising. During that time he directed Chronicle surveys of college president and trustees as well as its yearlong series, "The Growing Divide," which examines widening financial disparities between "haves" and "have-nots" in higher education. From 1997 to 2002, he covered state politics as a reporter at The Chronicle.
A leading journalist on higher-education subjects, Selingo has been a featured speaker before groups including the National Association of College and University Business Officers; the American Council on Education; the American Association of State Colleges and Universities; the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges; and the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, at Columbia University. His freelance articles have appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Before coming to The Chronicle, he covered environmental issues as a reporter for the Wilmington Star-News, in North Carolina (1995-97), and worked for The Ithaca Journal, in New York (1994-95). As a recipient of a Pulliam Journalism Fellowship, he covered business technology for The Arizona Republic, in Phoenix.
Selingo received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Ithaca College in 1995 and a master's degree in government from the Johns Hopkins University in 2001. He also completed the Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists at the University of Pennsylvania.
Honors: National Award for Education Reporting, second prize in trade-publication category, Education Writers Association, for “Academe Grows Increasingly Global,” 2007 | Dateline Award, Society of Professional Journalists, Washington, D.C., chapter, 2005 | Finalist, Livingston Award in national reporting, 2001 | North Carolina Press Association Award, 1996 | Writing award, North Carolina’s top Associated Press, 1996 | National Award for Education Reporting, second prize in trade-publication category, Education Writers Association, for "The Money Crunch: The Changing Relationship Between States and Public Higher Education," 2003.
Watch Jeff Selingo give an address at the AACRAO annual meeting on March 14, 2011:
