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Delece Smith-Barrow

Delece Smith-Barrow

Delece Smith-Barrow is a senior editor for higher education at The Hechinger Report. She was a 2017 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she spent a year studying how top-tier universities are increasing the numbers of underrepresented minority faculty. Prior to joining The Hechinger Report, she was a reporter at U.S. News & World Report, and a producer, writer and editor at The Washington Post. She received a bachelor's degree from University of Maryland--College Park and a master's degree from Georgetown University. Much to the dismay of most journalists, she hates coffee. She does, however, love trampoline dodgeball and the best of the worst of reality TV.

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Posted inCoronavirus and Education

Will coronavirus problems mean even more ‘summer melt’ this year?

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow May 15, 2020April 8, 2021
private student loans
Posted inNews

More students are taking out private loans as college costs rise

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow May 8, 2020April 8, 2021
Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Posted inCoronavirus and Education

Federal money to ease collegians’ coronavirus costs may shortchange some who need it most

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow April 24, 2020April 8, 2021
summer internships
Posted inHigher Education

What’s lost, gained with online internships

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow April 10, 2020April 8, 2021
universities closed due to coronavirus
Posted inNews

Canceled research, sports, recitals — college students are coping with more than closed campuses

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photoDelece Smith-Barrow by Meredith Kolodner, Jon Marcus, Caroline Preston and Delece Smith-Barrow March 20, 2020April 8, 2021
apprenticeship programs
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Congress gets a proposal to spend $400 million on creating more apprenticeships

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow March 13, 2020April 8, 2021
proposed education budget
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Trump’s budget would slash support for low-income students

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow February 14, 2020April 8, 2021
In this Friday, Feb. 8, 2013 photo, Xavier University student Triton Brown studies in a common area on campus before going to one of his part time jobs in New Orleans. Thousands of students unexpectedly either had to stay at home, transfer to a less expensive school or find new money when the U.S. Department of Education quietly changed how it evaluated the credit of parents applying for a federal PLUS loan. Brown, a Milwaukee native who is a freshman at Xavier University of Louisiana, said his family was counting on a PLUS loan, but his mother's application was rejected after he had been accepted the previous semester.
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Longer road to the B.A. for many black students

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow January 31, 2020April 8, 2021
college degree
Posted inNews

More students are leaving college without a degree

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow November 8, 2019April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

Black college students in Illinois get the short end of the financial stick

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow October 25, 2019April 8, 2021

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