Matt Zalaznick

Matt Zalaznick is the managing editor of University Business, covering higher education leadership, teaching and learning, student achievement, education technology, and federal education policy. A journalist since 1996, Zalaznick has reported on politics, law enforcement, and breaking news for newspapers and websites across the U.S. Virgin Islands, the San Francisco Bay Area, Colorado, and the New York City suburbs. He holds a B.A. in English from Tufts University.

Faculty group decries findings on higher ed spending trends

Colleges and universities have made spending on administrators and part-time instructors a higher priority than raising salaries of core faculty members who have the...

Chief digital officers build digital bridges

In an emerging trend that illustrates the growing importance of digital strategy in higher education, a handful of universities have named a chief digital...

Action urged on community college loan defaults

Community college students who take out the smallest loans default at the highest rates, and many borrowers who get into trouble make no effort...

Digital badges hit the big time in higher ed

While digital badges may sound like overshared gimmicks from the latest trendy game or social network, they have become serious commodities in the world...

Paving the path to college completion

Community colleges have achieved the goal of providing broader and cheaper access to higher education. Now, experts and administrators say, the focus must turn more aggressively toward student success and completion.

Researcher brings credibility to campus police reform

Criminal justice professor and public safety expert Robin Engel’s extensive background working with both law enforcement and community advocates should give plenty of credibility...

Higher ed experts see major potential in prison Pell Grants

A small-scale program that will give prisoners Pell Grants to pursue college degrees represents a symbolic step toward expanding access to higher education. But...

Do debates about college diversity policies miss the point?

Most public discussions about the use of race and ethnicity in higher education admissions decisions ignore targeted recruitment and some of the other strategies...

Models of Excellence: Student success starts early

Today’s progressive student success initiatives start even before first semester classes convene. The colleges and universities honored in the second round of UB’s national...

More colleges investing with impact

Fossil fuel and private prison divestment may make the biggest headlines when it comes to how colleges invest endowment funds—but it’s not actually that...

When colleges bounce back from the brink

Your school has been rescued—now what? How do you restore students’ and parents’ faith in your revived institution? Two colleges that have recently bounced back...

From overseas to the American community college

Lone Star College has the fourth highest number of international students among U.S. two-year institutions, but the Houston-area school does not recruit abroad aggressively,...

Push for coed frats meets resistance

A push for coed fraternities has spawned a lawsuit at Wesleyan University, while a directive from the administration at Trinity College, also in Connecticut,...

Hunger strikers oppose layoffs of Tufts janitors

A small group of Tufts University students mounted a six-day hunger strike in May, but their target wasn’t fossil fuel divestment or nuclear disarmament....

Small schools sidestep Sweet Briar’s struggles

The wave of first-generation and low-income students now seeking higher ed access is placing unprecedented financial strain on the full spectrum of liberal arts...