Jack Stripling is a senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education and host of its podcast, College Matters from The Chronicle.
Jack, who joined The Chronicle in 2011, often writes about college leaders navigating crises, administrative palace intrigue, and the politics of the college presidency. He got his start covering higher education in 2003 as a beat reporter for the Opelika-Auburn News, where he wrote about Auburn University. Since then, he has written for The Gainesville Sun, where he covered The University of Florida; Inside Higher Ed; and The Washington Post, where he was an investigative reporter covering higher education.
The Education Writers Association has honored Jack on several occasions for his watchdog reporting on a number of issues, including college governance, plagiarism, and executive compensation. His favorite things to get in the mail are huge batches of public records and anonymous tips, preferably stuffed with secret documents.
Jack earned a bachelor’s degree in English with a creative-writing emphasis at Florida State University, which, years later, employed a collection agency to chase him down over unpaid parking tickets. He holds a master’s degree in literature from Auburn. He has also taught at the college level, as an adjunct professor of English at Santa Fe College, in Florida, and as a graduate teaching assistant at Auburn.
