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Adrienne Lu

Senior Reporter
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Adrienne Lu writes about staff and living and working in higher education. She can be reached at adrienne.lu@chronicle.com or on Twitter @adriennelu.

Adrienne joined The Chronicle as a senior reporter in 2022. She previously wrote about education and state and local governments for Stateline, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The (Bergen County) Record, The (Raleigh) News & Observer, and the Chicago News Cooperative. She also studied state- and local-government fiscal health as a researcher at the Pew Charitable Trusts. She is a graduate of Williams College and holds a master’s degree in public administration from Columbia University.

Stories by This Author

Diversity Training
By Adrienne Lu September 9, 2024
Scant evidence, and mixed results, suggest it doesn’t.
Faculty Politics
By Adrienne Lu August 16, 2024
Officials of the faculty group say its previous position, crafted 18 years ago, was flawed.
'In Flux'
By Adrienne Lu July 23, 2024
With more temporary leaders in charge, day-to-day campus decisions are often slowed down or stalled.
Ups and Downs for Labor
By Adrienne Lu June 14, 2024
Contrasting outcomes at Princeton University point to the challenge of organizing student workers.
'There’s Some Kind of Mistake'
By Adrienne Lu May 21, 2024
Labor activism has graduate teaching assistants out-earning some faculty members in the University of California system.
Labor
By Adrienne Lu May 16, 2024
Friday’s announcement marks the first in a possible series of strikes across the UC system. Administrators argue such walkouts are political and therefore illegal.
Finance
By Adrienne Lu April 24, 2024
Colleges will have a choice: They can either pay overtime to more employees or significantly raise those workers’ salaries. Either option will upend next year’s budgets.
Compensation
By Adrienne Lu April 24, 2024
Some financially strained colleges have told instructors their pay will be based on the number of students in their classes. For one adjunct professor, that amounted to a $101 paycheck.
Quashing Protests
By Adrienne Lu April 18, 2024
President Nemat Shafik called on New York police to clear an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters on campus. More than 100 people were taken into custody.