We’ve got Quad housekeeping news to start with this week: Sometime soon, I’m going to disappear for a few months. My wife is due to give birth to our second child any day now, and I will be taking full advantage of the three months of paternity leave The Assembly offers.

Don’t worry, we’re not shutting down. We’re not the federal government, after all. We can’t announce my new Quad co-author quite yet, but we know who it will be and I promise you’re going to love it.

Also, to hold ourselves accountable to our goal of covering more colleges across the state, we’re adding this little feature 👇 where we’ll track how many institutions are mentioned in each issue.

This issue’s college count: 9

— Matt Hartman […]

Matt Hartman is a higher education reporter for The Assembly and co-anchor of our weekly higher education newsletter, The Quad. He was previously a longtime freelance journalist and spent nearly a decade working in higher ed communications before joining The Assembly in 2024.