The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "higher education" ...
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From community colleges to universities: Investigating higher ed with the help of students
McBride's Powerpoint is chock full of great tips and story ideas on how you can cover your local higher education institution with the help of journalism students.
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Investigating Higher Education
Use this tipsheet from award winning reporter, Perez, when you need to cover the higher education beat. She gives great resources for where to look and story ideas for the data you receive.
Tags: higher education; property records; IRS; grants; student federal loans
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Investigating Higher Education--Powerpoint
Perez's Powerpoint presentation offers great examples of resources used and graphics on how to display your findings including personnel investigations, memos, SEC docs and more. Perez was part of the IRE award winning team for "On Shaky Ground".
Tags: higher education; school safety; EDGAR; PACER; Conflict of interest
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Data U: The Databases You Need to Cover Higher Ed
Higher Education is a hot button topic that affects everyone. This tipsheet features databases, story ideas, and tips for covering universities.
Tags: Higher Education
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Covering Education: When there's not enough time or money.
McBride gives tips on how to cover education and colleges on a tight budget.
Tags: education beat; higher education
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Higher Ed: Following the money on campus
Utilize the web and these tips provided by reporters all over the country to follow the money on your college campus. Search public records such as the Dept. of Ed's data of student who default on loans and the SEC's data on for-profit colleges.
Tags: for-profit college; higher education; student loan default
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Clout Goes to College
Cohen gives examples of the FOIA requests and challenges faced during the Chicago Tribune's "Clout Goes To College" series. Included are examples of the FOIA requests sent and data obtained.
Tags: FOIA; data; higher education; lobbyists; Office of Governmental Affairs; college; university; admissions
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Ivory tower inspections: Holding higher education's complex bureaucracies accountable
Gabrielson discusses the challenges of deciphering the world if higher education. He suggests ways of demystifying the institutions if you're covering higher education; who to know to get the information/data you need; reading internal control audits to better understand university finances; and map the university's income sources.
Tags: education; higher education; college; university; administration; students; academic fraud; audit; tuition
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Accountability Reporting in Higher Education
Lombardi's tipsheet addresses covering campus crime. She talks about finding sources, a difficult process through the student judicial process. She suggests sources for campus crime data; public records laws by state; and points to a toolkit developed by the Center for Public Integrity for covering campus crime
Tags: higher education; campus security; rape; Victim Rights Law Center; victim advocates; Clery Act; Department of Education; assault
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Higher education: Examining college finances
Blumenstyk details the varying sources for funding and expenditures in higher education. Included with the tipsheet is a listing of The Chronicle of Higher Education’s online databases about academe.
Tags: education; college; university; spending; private schools; public schools;