Editor
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Background:
Liz McMillen became editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education in August 2011.
Previously, she had been editor of The Chronicle Review since 2008, a post she will continue to hold. Earlier, she served as the Review's deputy editor for two years and senior editor for six years, editing articles on the arts and humanities, publishing, and intellectual trends on campuses.
In 2009 The Chronicle Review received an Award of Excellence from the Society for News Design, and in 2008 it was described as “fearless” and “free thinking” by the Utne Reader in awarding The Chronicle of Higher Education an Independent Press Award for its political coverage.
In 1998 she was the founding editor of The Chronicle Careers Web site. Before that, she served as a senior editor supervising the paper’s coverage of scholarship, research, and publishing, and earlier of college business and fund raising. She joined The Chronicle’s staff in 1984 as a reporter covering faculty issues.
Before coming to The Chronicle, she worked for the Associated Press in Philadelphia and later attended the University of Durham on a Rotary International Fellowship. She graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in American studies.
Honors: Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan, 1997-98 | Special Citation, Education Writers Association, 1994 | Jon Davidoff Scholarship, Wesleyan University Writers’ Conference, 1989
