$1.3M in expenses

Open campus local reporting network:we combine support from national, regional, and local funders to create long-term partnerships that advance sophisticated coverage of the higher ed beat. Through the open campus local reporter network, we collaborate every week with reporters in partner newsrooms, coaching them on coverage, providing story guidance, doing big-picture editing, and connecting them with national data, sources, and context. They benefit from connections with one another and from monthly open campus reporting workshops. They are employed by their local newsrooms, and stories are published by the local newsroom and open campus. Open campus staff editors work with the partner newsrooms to produce high-quality work. They also send out (continued on SCH o)newsletters about the work to open campus subscribers.

$405K in expenses

Open campus national reporting team: open campus covers all facets of higher education. To that end, we have a national reporter on staff who writes about postsecondary education inside prisons and how it is being transformed by new funding and new technology. Our second national reporter is focused on how higher education is serving rural communities and rural residents. In 2023, we added a managing editor who focuses leading coverage of issues of race and equity in higher ed. Open campus staff editors work with the national reporters to produce high-quality work, and to co-publish that work with national news outlets.

$285K in expenses

Work shift:work shift is a fiscally sponsored project of open campus devoted to reporting on the connections between education and work. As trends in career training evolve, work shift, and its companion newsletter, the job, inform higher ed institutions, employers and policymakers about changes in the industry.

$454K in expenses

Other programs: journalist training, college inside, and consumer tools.