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Dan Berrett

Senior Editor

What I Do

I assign and edit coverage of a broad range of topics, including admissions, faculty, finance, teaching, the college-to-career transition, and the academic workplace, among others. I sometimes edit daily-news stories and newsletters, but more often help reporters produce longer-developing analytical pieces, data stories, features, investigations, narratives, and reports.

My Background

I joined The Chronicle in 2011 as a reporter covering teaching and learning. Before that, I worked as a reporter at Inside Higher Ed and the Pocono Record, in northeast Pennsylvania. My work has also appeared in The New York Times and Newsweek, among other publications. I earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a master’s from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Connect

email: dan.berrett@chronicle.com
Bluesky: @dberrett.bsky.social
Signal: dberrett.54

Recent Stories

Data
By Dan Berrett, Brian O’Leary May 13, 2025
Taxes on endowments could increase to as much as 21 percent under a new Republican plan being considered by the Ways and Means Committee, according to a Chronicle analysis.
Daily Briefing
Yale’s new president narrowly escaped censure. New report shows an increase in retention, and more.
Live Coronavirus Updates
By Dan Berrett February 27, 2021
The Pennsylvania university said 56 students had tested positive for the coronavirus in one week, much higher than any previous week.
Live Coronavirus Updates
By Dan Berrett February 27, 2021
The change on the flagship campus, in College Park, was sparked by a drop in the daily positivity rate, to about 1 percent.
Higher Ed Under Biden-Harris
By Dan Berrett January 23, 2021
The U.S. Department of Education on Friday recommended terminating recognition of the troubled Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, or Acics, whose membership consists largely of for-profit career colleges. The accreditor’s status is scheduled to be debated next month by a…
Fresh Data
By Dan Berrett December 17, 2020
Numbers of undergraduates, men, and at community colleges are all down. But they’ve increased at the graduate level and at for-profits.
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.
Business
By Dan Berrett August 3, 2020
The deal between land-grant and for-profit institutions would result in a new nonprofit entity called University of Arizona Global Campus.
News
By Dan Berrett September 8, 2019
The New Yorker detailed a deeper relationship than the director, Joi Ito, had previously acknowledged.
Teaching
By Dan Berrett August 22, 2019
We fill you in on our plan for writing about your classroom experiments.