Jennifer Ruark works with editors, staff reporters, and freelance journalists to guide our coverage of a broad range of beats, with a focus on faculty and student issues and social mobility. She also directs The Chronicle’s annual Trends Report and other special issues.
She has been with The Chronicle since 1996, working in various roles, including as an editor on The Chronicle Review, as features editor, and as editor of the research section. A project she led about the Gates Foundation’s influence on higher education earned an investigative-reporting prize from the Education Writers Association, and a special report she directed on the student mental-health crisis was covered by PBS NewsHour, public radio programs, and The Atlantic. Her own articles have ranged across topics as varied as the lasting imprint of the Sokal hoax, psychology, literary studies, and napping.
Before joining The Chronicle, Ruark spent three years as an acquisitions editor at Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. She has also taught English in public schools in Iwata, Japan, and worked as a reporter covering environmental policy. Ruark graduated with honors from Swarthmore College and earned a master’s degree in English from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
