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Dan Bauman

Staff Reporter

What I Cover

Dan Bauman investigates how the business of higher education affects real people — from faculty and staff members to prospective and current students, alumni, communities, and the rest of the world.

My Background

Dan Bauman joined The Chronicle after starting his career at the St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota). An award-winning reporter, Bauman’s work has outed an internet huckster masquerading in the news as a financial guru, chronicled how one financially decimated university alerted its creditors to the potential for closure while still enrolling students by the hundreds, and scrutinized how millions of dollars of campaign donations at the state level each year help partisans and ideologues win seats on the boards that oversee America’s top public universities.

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Email: dan.bauman@chronicle.com
Phone: 202-466-1201
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Highlights

Recent Stories

Law & Policy
By Dan Bauman April 11, 2025
The arrangement would put a federal judge in charge of overseeing the university’s commitments to fight antisemitism. In doing so, it could lock in Trump’s preferred policies for the longer haul.
Data
By Dan Bauman April 1, 2025
More than 10 percent of the university’s operating revenue last year came from federally supported sponsored research.
Leadership
By Dan Bauman March 28, 2025
Following a contentious standoff with the Trump administration, Columbia University’s interim president, Katrina A. Armstrong, has resigned and is set to return to leading Columbia’s Irving Medical Center.
Data Analysis
By Dan Bauman March 11, 2025
Cuts at the agency could result in the early termination of at least 140 contracts and assistance programs awarded to higher-ed organizations.
Scholarship & Research
By Dan Bauman February 10, 2025
For more than a dozen institutions, the single-year losses could amount to over $100 million.
Finance & Operations
By Dan Bauman February 7, 2025
More than 1,500 institutions received federal funds for research, conservation, economic development, and curriculum development during the 2023 fiscal year.
'Flabbergasted'
By Karin Fischer, Dan Bauman October 28, 2024
India was the powerhouse of post-pandemic foreign-student growth — until this summer.
Access & Affordability
By Dan Bauman October 21, 2024
Despite widely held assumptions among consumers, the average net price for undergraduate tuition has actually decreased, when adjusted for inflation, for more than a decade.
California Dreaming
By Dan Bauman October 9, 2024
Accreditor woes have complicated the institution’s inroads to the Golden State.
'Shocking and Sudden'
By Eric Kelderman, Dan Bauman June 5, 2024
The University of the Arts gave students and employees just seven days’ notice that it would shut its doors. “It didn’t appear to be a hair-on-fire situation,” one administrator said.