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Brock Read

Deputy Managing Editor
The Chronicle of Higher Education

As deputy managing editor of The Chronicle, Brock Read directs a team of editors and reporters who provide breaking coverage and expert analysis of higher-education news and trends.

Since joining The Chronicle, in 2001, Read has served in a variety of roles. As a reporter, he covered the rise of Wikipedia and Facebook. As the newspaper’s first web producer and then as web editor, he worked extensively on two major site redesigns. He oversaw the creation of a news-and-advice portal for Vitae, The Chronicle’s academic-career site, before returning to the newsroom to guide daily-news coverage. For four years he was The Chronicle‘s editor.

A native of rural western New York, Read earned a bachelor’s degree in art history from Williams College.

Stories by This Author

'Much Is at Stake'
By Brock Read March 31, 2025
The government will examine $255 million in current contracts, along with a slew of multiyear grants, citing Harvard’s “failure to protect students on campus from antisemitic discrimination.”
What Lies Ahead
By Brock Read March 7, 2025
The president could prompt sweeping changes. Here are some to keep an eye on.
News
By Dan Berrett, Brock Read September 17, 2020
The department said an open letter by the university’s president called the university’s nondiscrimination assurances — and its right to federal funds — into question.
News
By Brock Read December 1, 2019
The university system has ensured that the divisive Confederate monument won’t return to its Chapel Hill campus. But its method of doing so is “insane,” said one professor.
Technology and Politics
By Brock Read, Andy Thomason January 4, 2019
An attempted gotcha, the video is a reminder of an era when video mash-ups ruled college campuses and struck intellectuals as a big deal.
The 2018 Vote
By Dan Bauman, Lindsay Ellis, Steven Johnson, and others November 7, 2018
Betsy DeVos and the Education Department may soon face more oversight. Student voters turned out, but so did everyone else. Here are our notes from Election Day.
Faculty Activist
By Brock Read October 9, 2018
A university administrator sharply criticized the scholar, John Cheney-Lippold, for using recommendation letters “as a platform to discuss your personal political beliefs.”
A Resignation
By Brock Read August 7, 2018
C.L. Max Nikias, plagued by a string of sexual-misconduct scandals at the university, had announced in May that he would leave his post. By this month, the faculty was becoming restive.
Politics
By Dan Bauman, Brock Read June 21, 2018
Since its birth, the Department of Education has been marked for death by its critics. And those critics have been almost exclusively Republicans. But their efforts have failed.
Leadership
By Sarah Brown, Brock Read April 13, 2018
The president, John Engler, denies the claim, made in a Friday board meeting. But the episode could bring even more scrutiny upon Engler, who has made several public missteps since his appointment, in January.