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Carolyn Mooney

Senior Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education

A senior editor and project manager, Carolyn Mooney has held numerous reporting and editing roles during a long Chronicle career. Previously, as the editor of special themed issues of The Chronicle, she worked with staff reporters, outside writers, and designers to produce reports on diversity, the digital campus, annual trends in higher education, and more.

Before that she traveled the globe as an international features writer, reporting on wide-ranging topics like language politics in Iceland and South Africa, and the Yeats Summer School, in Ireland. In earlier assignments, she covered state higher-education policy, faculty culture, college leadership, religion, pension funds, and the arts. Her articles providing an inside look at the tenure system and examining the career paths of Black mathematicians won Education Writers Association awards.

Before joining The Chronicle, she was a reporter at The Miami Herald and at States News Service, in Washington, D.C. She received a fellowship from the American Council on Germany to report on American troops stationed there at a time of rising anti-American tensions.

Stories by This Author

News
By Carolyn Mooney April 20, 2015
“I have hopefully become a much better, more informed and useful global citizen,” he says, “all without ever physically leaving my apartment.”
News
By Carolyn Mooney July 22, 2013
The survey showcases job practices that employees appreciate most.
Wired Campus
By Carolyn Mooney January 24, 2013
An assistant professor at Georgia Tech, she’ll be writing about her group’s efforts to develop a massive open online course in freshman composition.
Arts & Academe
By Carolyn Mooney May 2, 2011
New survey data suggest that the alumni are happily using what they learned, though not always in the ways they, or their parents or faculty, expected.
Arts & Academe
By Carolyn Mooney March 16, 2011
A continuing, ambitious survey counters stereotypes of arts-program alumni as bitter, unemployed paupers, suggesting instead an entrepreneurial, versatile population using its creativity in expected and sometimes unforeseen ways.
Arts & Academe
By Carolyn Mooney March 1, 2011
During a residency at the Kohler Company’s industrial-pottery plant, an art professor from Birmingham-Southern College crafted 50 weary, misguided warriors.
Arts & Academe
By Carolyn Mooney February 10, 2011
A lot of college bands make CD’s, but not double CD’s entirely composed or arranged by students. That’s what you’ll hear on “Freeplay.”
Arts & Academe
By Carolyn Mooney February 3, 2011
The aesthetic meets the therapeutic in a new museum program.
Chronicle Review
By Carolyn Mooney March 21, 2010
Chris Jordan’s provocatively manipulated digital photographs tell a story of human consumption and degradation, one bit of plastic at a time.
The Review
By Carolyn Mooney, Sara Lipka January 17, 2010
A play about women and math; a film about law and Gitmo; an environmental film festival; and research in a hip-hop archive.