Kate Hidalgo Bellows
Kate Hidalgo Bellows is a staff reporter at The Chronicle, covering health and safety on campus.
Since starting at The Chronicle as a fellow in 2021, Bellows has reported on student protests against sexual assault, campus suicide clusters, the growth of teletherapy on campus, and parents-groups’ attempts to get institutions to increase their security measures. She lead The Chronicle’s Daily Briefing newsletter from 2022 to 2023.
Bellows came to The Chronicle from The Island Packet in Hilton Head Island, S.C. There, she wrote about labor, housing, and the local Latino community. Her investigation of living conditions at Hilton Head Island’s only public-housing complex won a first-place award from South Carolina Press Association in the enterprise-reporting category.
Bellows is a 2020 graduate of the University of Virginia. She is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
When she is not writing, she is biking around Washington, D.C., or doting on her two perfect cats. Follow her on Twitter @katebellows, or email her at kate.hidalgobellows@chronicle.com.
Stories by this Author
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'You Need Balance'The (College) Presidential Fitness Test
These leaders aren’t just sweating over their jobs. -
Fears and Threats
After a Professor’s Killing, a University Asked Its Campus About Safety. Here’s What People Said.
Responses to a University of Arizona survey, obtained with a public-records request, paint a picture of a campus reeling from trauma. -
The Wider Impact
Some Colleges Will No Longer Consider Race in Awarding Student Scholarships
They’ve adopted the interpretation that the Supreme Court’s ruling on race in admissions also applies to decisions about financial aid. -
Campus Speech
A Governor Tells Public Colleges: The Drag Show Must Not Go On
In South Dakota and elsewhere, conservative politicians are decrying the performances, an LGBTQ tradition, as inappropriate. -
Speaking Out
‘Appallingly Coarse and Deliberately Abusive’: University President Condemns Students’ Commencement Protest
Robert A. Brown, who’s retiring from Boston University in July, said the “unruly” protest was representative of “the cancel culture.” -
Spoiler Alert
Paranoia Struck the U. of Alabama Over a Greek-Life Film. Here’s What’s Actually in It.
We know you’ve been waiting for The Chronicle’s analysis of Bama Rush. -
Campus Safety
Colleges Acted on Demands to Rein In Their Police. Then They Backtracked.
Three years after George Floyd’s murder, campus safety hasn’t changed much. -
Campus Safety
A Former Student Is Suspected in the UC-Davis Stabbings. Here’s What We Know.
Two of the three victims died, including a student who was about to graduate. The suspect had been “separated” from the university two days before the first stabbing. -
Campus Speech
More Students Endorse an Expansive Definition of ‘Harm.’ Colleges Aren’t So Sure.
Recent campus controversies, many involving anti-transgender activists, have sparked debate over how speech can be harmful. -
'A Huge Support'
A University’s New Approach to Student Mental Health: Put Therapists in the Dorms
Virginia Tech aims to make treatment more accessible and relieve pressure on resident assistants, who have increasingly become first responders to students in crisis.
