Audrey Williams June

Audrey Williams June is the news-data manager at The Chronicle. She explores and analyzes data sets, databases, and records to uncover higher-education trends, insights, and stories.

Before coming to The Chronicle, Audrey was a business reporter for The Charlotte Observer, in North Carolina. While there, she wrote about the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur and the city’s banking industry. She has also worked for The Telegraph, in Macon, Ga., as an environmental reporter.

Audrey earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in economics at Florida A&M University. When she’s not wrangling data, you’ll find her browsing the stacks at her local public library.

Stories by This Author

Data

About One in Four Faculty Members Are Unionized, Study Finds

By Audrey Williams June August 29, 2024

The new report is based on data collected from 902 higher-education collective-bargaining units.

Trivia Time

How Well Do You Know Higher Ed? Take Our Quiz.

By Audrey Williams June August 20, 2024

Answers are drawn from The Chronicle’s newly released Almanac, our annual data-driven portrait of academe.

Photo ilustration with 100 multicolored college pennants maing the shape of the number 100.

Data

What Would Higher Ed Look Like Distilled Into 100 Institutions?

By Audrey Williams June August 12, 2024

America has nearly 4,000 degree-granting colleges, which can make it difficult to fully understand the sweep and diversity of the sector.

Data

This Thin Slice of Academe Educates 1 in 5 Undergrads

By Audrey Williams June June 24, 2024

Here’s a look at the 102 colleges with at least 20,000 undergraduates.

Data

Is College Worth It? Depends on the Student Debt.

By Audrey Williams June May 23, 2024

Just 22 percent of respondents to a new Pew Research Center survey said the cost of a four-year degree was worth it if a student had to take out loans.

Illustration shows a classroom with nine seated students, surrounded by display screens on hooks, and more students connected to a network

Data

College Closures Are in the News. But Higher Ed Added Thousands of Programs Over the Past 2 Decades.

By Brian O’Leary, Audrey Williams June May 17, 2024

Here is a closer look at how nearly 23,000 new academic programs were added from 2002 to 2022.

At Home Abroad

Oh, the Places They Went: Where More Than 5 Million American Students Went on Study Abroad This Century

By Audrey Williams June March 29, 2024

More than 100 countries hosted at least one American student every year, but Britain, Italy, and Spain were perennial favorite destinations, according to an analysis of decades of data.