Alex Walters is a reporting intern at The Chronicle with an interest in covering Title IX issues and governance. He is a rising junior at Michigan State University, where he is the senior reporter at The State News, the independent student newspaper. His coverage has touched on a wide range of higher-ed issues, including campus policing, sexual violence, and seemingly endless leadership tumult. He was the Michigan Press Association’s college journalist of 2023 and won the Education Writers Association’s 2023 student-journalism award. Follow Alex on X @Alex_M_Walters.
Stories by This Author
Respecting the Victim
The University of Oregon’s unique policy aimed to give students control over reporting sexual violence to the Title IX office. It protested, without success, new rules that blocked the policy.
'Perpetrators Are Often Faculty'
Nicole Bedera, a sociologist, learned that the spectrum of campus sexual-misconduct cases — who’s involved and what cases look like — is much broader than people think.
Truth in Data
In previous research on professors’ politics, participants would categorize or describe themselves in surveys. A new study used their social-media activity.
Leadership & Governance
Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia’s new board appointees, many with ties to the Heritage Foundation, have set their sights on DEI, tenure, and curriculum.
Technology
Morehouse College hopes students will use the tool, which a handful of professors will debut this fall, to ask questions and even listen to lectures that they missed.
The Final Straw
Louisiana State University at Shreveport revoked Brian Salvatore’s tenure and fired him. Hundreds of pages of documents, scores of emails, and hours of audio recordings reveal a strange, complex story.
Leading by Tweet
Jordan Acker has won praise from fellow Michigan board members for his prolific social-media postings. But he’s become a target of activists: An incident on Monday is being investigated as an alleged hate crime.