California/West Correspondent
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Expertise: Higher education in California | Public universities | Student activism | Community-college transfer | Social media | Colleges and the Internet
Background: Josh Keller has covered California and the West Coast for The Chronicle of Higher Education since 2008. Based in San Francisco, he writes regularly about budget issues, diversity, technology, and student activism in California’s higher-education system, the largest of any state's.
Keller has written in-depth pieces on how California’s budget crisis is damaging the quality of education at the University of California, California State University, and the state’s community colleges. As an intern at The Chronicle, in 2007, he contributed to coverage of investigations into the student-loan industry, writing dozens of stories about relationships between lenders and college financial-aid officers.
He also co-founded a company for Web-site design and development in San Francisco.
Before joining The Chronicle, he covered immigration, transportation, and cattle auctions as an intern at The Anniston Star, in Alabama, and served as news editor at University of California at Berkeley’s student newspaper, The Daily Californian. He received a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from Berkeley in 2007.
Media appearances: Keller has been interviewed as an expert on radio programs including KQED’s This Week in Northern California to discuss the strained relationship between the University of California at Berkeley and the City of Berkeley.
Online feature: Twitter
