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Author Archives: Laura Pappano

Laura Pappano is an education journalist who also writes about gender and sport. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Education Life section and former education columnist for The Boston Globe. Her stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor and other publications. Pappano is founder of the New Haven Student Journalism Project, which helps second- to eighth-graders produce a real newspaper, and is writer-in-residence at the Wellesley Centers for Women. She has a bachelor’s degree from Yale.

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Posted inHigher Education

College students to administrators: Let’s talk about mental health

by Laura Pappano February 25, 2022February 25, 2022

MEQUON, Wis. — With the pandemic dragging on, the string of setbacks that recently hit Lucas Regnier, a sophomore at Concordia University Wisconsin, has become oddly routine. This story also appeared in The Washington Post A wrestler and physical education major, he suffered a concussion and a sprained ACL. Then, he and half his team […]

Posted inMap to the Middle Class

More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary

by Laura Pappano December 23, 2021December 23, 2021
college for adults
Posted inHigher Education

For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

by Laura Pappano August 5, 2021April 10, 2022
Posted inCoronavirus and Education

‘Right now is not my time’: How Covid dimmed college prospects for students who need help most

by Laura Pappano March 4, 2021March 3, 2021
Posted inHigher Education

How to raise rural enrollment in higher education? Go local

by Laura Pappano December 4, 2020February 9, 2022
Posted inColleges in Crisis

A regional public university’s identity crisis

by Laura Pappano August 19, 2020September 22, 2021
Posted inNews

Quarantine campuses: With dorms shut and class online, students DIY college life

by Laura Pappano May 18, 2020April 8, 2021
second language
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

by Laura Pappano November 19, 2019April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Getting rid of the ‘gotcha’: College students try to tame political dialogue

by Laura Pappano March 31, 2019April 8, 2021
Angel Carter, a senior at Tulane University, leads the Green Wave Ambassadors, the tour guide group for the admissions office.
Posted inHigher Education, News

America’s colleges struggle to envision the future of diversity on campus

by Laura Pappano January 16, 2019September 13, 2021

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