Happy summer, dear readers!

Our publishing break is ongoing—we’ll be back with new reporting next week—but I’m here in your inboxes for two important reasons: To tell you there are a few tickets left to our inaugural Newsmakers event with UNC System President Peter Hans next week, and to introduce our summer intern, Lucas Lin. 

And while I’m here, I figure we may as well share some of what we’ve been reading, right?

— 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.