We’re back after our publishing pause with some exciting news: The Assembly won a North Carolina Press Association award for its higher education coverage! The Duke University/Green-Rossiter Award recognizes outstanding reporting on higher education issues in the state. We’ve received this honor in the online division for three years in a row.

Revisit the stellar stories that we submitted for the award:

As always, thanks for your readership and support. We couldn’t do this work without you. […]

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.

Erin Gretzinger is a former higher education reporter at The Assembly and co-anchor of our weekly higher education newsletter, The Quad. She was previously a reporting fellow at The Chronicle of Higher Education and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.