
Heidi Landecker
As deputy managing editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Heidi Landecker supervises the copy desk and multiplatform production. She joined The Chronicle as a senior editor in 1998, was appointed assistant managing editor in 2004, and became deputy managing editor in 2014. She moonlights occasionally as a writer for The Chronicle Review and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and she managed and edited Lingua Franca, a blog about language in academe, for seven years.
Her freelance work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. She has been a copy editor at The Boston Globe Magazine and The Boston Observer, a staff editor at The Atlantic, and a senior editor at Architecture and Landscape Architecture magazines. She was a researcher for the novelist Gore Vidal from 1983-98.
Landecker received a B.A. in art and environmental studies from Antioch College and an M.S. in science and environmental education from Cornell University.
Stories by this Author
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Weekly Briefing
Weekly Briefing: Stanford’s president steps down over research-misconduct accusations
Months of reporting by students at “The Stanford Daily” led this week to the resignation of President Marc Tessier-Lavigne of Stanford University. -
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Weekly Briefing: At Ohio State, the trustees, with no president, are in charge
The president oversaw commencement last weekend and resigned on Sunday. No interim leader has been found. -
The Review | Reporting
Madeline Kripke Owned 20,000 Books, Some of Them Very Bawdy
She had perhaps the largest personal dictionary collection in the world. It is certainly the most titillating. -
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Weekly Briefing: DeSantis asks Florida Colleges for Data on Diversity Spending
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Weekly Briefing: Emporia State U. Fires Tenured Professors
A policy on the books for over a year is being carried out. Faculty members wish they’d had more input. -
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Daily Briefing: A Professor’s Job Was on the Line After a Free-Speech Scuffle. Now He’s Safe
The free-speech group FIRE expands its mission; gun violence and research; and more. -
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At Yale Law School, an Uproar Over Free Speech
The prestigious school has been beset by bad publicity over the past year. Some faculty members blame the dean. -
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Her College Celebrated Her Achievement. The It Started Checking Into Her Story
Columbia and striking student workers reach agreement, politics and vaccination policy in Virginia, the Word of the Year, and more. -
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When Professors Say the Wrong Thing in Class
Norms are changing. Who draws the line? -
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Weekly Briefing: Tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones
After weeks of protests and faculty departures, a student calls the board to a vote.