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Amelia Benavides-Colon

Amelia Benavides-Colón

Reporting Intern
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Amelia Benavides-Colón is a reporting intern at The Chronicle and the 2024 recipient of The Chronicle’s Diversity in Media Scholarship. She is a recent graduate of Wayne State University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in print and online journalism, with a minor in global studies. She previously served as editor in chief of The South End, Wayne State’s independent student newspaper. She completed internships with The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, and Crain’s Detroit Business. Her work has been featured in Eater Detroit and El Central, and her reporting for Planet Detroit on the environmental barriers facing Detroit residents received recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists for Best Digital Presentation.

You can follow her on X at @benavides_colon or reach her via email at amelia.benavides-colon@chronicle.com.

Stories by This Author

Ingrained inequities
By Amelia Benavides-Colón September 10, 2024
At the Detroit public university, the share of students completing degrees within six years declined eight percentage points in 2023 — after a dozen years of increases. Now what?
College Access
By Amelia Benavides-Colón August 23, 2024
This month, Michigan and Massachusetts began covering tuition costs for a broader swath of state residents. Campus leaders say they are already seeing positive signs.
Campus Activism
A Republican congresswoman had choice words for what she said were Columbia’s failures to discipline activists, while the UC system president said its campuses would tighten their protocols.
Making the Podium
The Chronicle tracked which campuses helped train the most medalists at this year’s Games. Here’s who made it onto the podium.
'Gamifying the Past'
By Amelia Benavides-Colón July 16, 2024
Tore Olsson used a wildly popular video game to get students talking about industrialization, racial integration, and other key themes of late-19th- and early-20th-century America.
Leadership
By Amelia Benavides-Colón June 20, 2024
A report analyzes statements that about four dozen colleges issued after the war broke out. About half condemned Hamas and antisemitism, while 43 percent condemned Islamophobia.
'A Universal Star'
By Amelia Benavides-Colón June 14, 2024
Every year, Compton College administrators make a wish list of commencement speakers. This spring, when President Keith Curry saw Kendrick Lamar’s name on the list, a light bulb went off.
Campus Activism
Encampments and sit-ins proliferated across the country in April, May, and June. Our map has been updated to include recent encampments at Wayne State University, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and a handful of other institutions.