During nearly 40 years at The Chronicle, Liz McMillen has served in a variety of editorial roles, most recently as executive editor of Chronicle Intelligence. She brings several decades of experience covering higher education and has been a sought-after speaker addressing college leaders in the United States and overseas about big-picture trends in higher education. She currently is a contributing editor at The Chronicle, hosting events and professional-development workshops and contributing to editorial strategy.
From 2011 to 2018, Liz served as the editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, supervising a newsroom of 65 reporters, editors, data journalists, and designers who produced a daily news report, weekly print edition, special supplements, and in-depth reports. Under her leadership, the Chronicle newsroom received awards from the Online News Association, the Society for News Design, and the Education Writers Association.
During her career at The Chronicle, she served as a reporter covering faculty issues, research, and business; a section editor; and editor of The Chronicle Review. In 2013, she was selected to deliver the Graham Hovey Lecture at the University of Michigan. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and was a recipient of the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan.
