Nick Anderson

Washington, D.C.

Reporter covering higher education, national education policy and the global education market Education: Stanford University, bachelor's degree in English Nick Anderson is a veteran education journalist who has covered topics including suburban Maryland schools, the U.S. Department of Education and the college admissions maze. He has also been education editor for The Post. On the higher education beat, he writes about college from the perspective of a father of three with an eye on tuition bills. His interests include the technological revolution in schools, the national and global market, the endless battle to overcome inequities of opportunity and the sheer intellectual fun of academic life. In 2007, Anderson participated in the team coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting as assistant Virginia editor for education. The Post's coverage of that tragedy won a Pulitzer Prize. In 2009, he and a colleague interviewed President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on federal education reform efforts. In 2012, he oversaw coverage of the leadership crisis at the University of Virginia. In 2015, working with the Kaiser Family Foundation, he helped lead a team of reporters and pollsters in a groundbreaking series on sexual assault in college. That year he also traveled to the Middle East to explore how elite U.S. universities are expanding in the Persian Gulf. Before coming to The Post, he spent eight years covering Congress, politics and education for the Los Angeles Times. He has also worked for the Associated Press, the San Jose Mercury News and the Palo Alto Weekly. He lives in Montgomery County, Md.

Latest from Nick Anderson

Local

Where riots raged decades ago, shopkeepers again clean up shattered glass

Vandalism and looting Sunday night touched neighborhoods from downtown to Friendship Heights to H Street NE.

Jun 1, 2020

Higher Education

Maryland’s public universities gear up for some in-person teaching in fall, but plans are still in flux

University System of Maryland releases guidance on plans for restarting campuses amid the coronavirus pandemic.

May 29, 2020

Education

Home by Thanksgiving: An emerging strategy to reopen college campuses in the fall

Some schools are pushing aggressive plans to bring students back. Others are taking it more slowly.

May 29, 2020

Higher Education

U-Va. heads toward at least some in-person classes in fall

The University of Virginia, like others nationwide, is weighing how to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic.

May 28, 2020

Higher Education

Will colleges in the D.C. region reopen campuses in the fall? Answers are slow in coming.

Some major universities have not yet committed to bringing students back to campus.

May 25, 2020

Higher Education

University of California takes huge step toward dropping SAT and ACT from admissions

The University of California's governing Board of Regents is scheduled to vote Thursday on a plan to ignore SAT and ACT scores from in-state applicants.

May 21, 2020

Higher Education

Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli agree to plead guilty in college admissions case

Loughlin is expected to spend two months in prison, and Giannulli is expected to see five months behind bars, according to prosecutors.

May 21, 2020

Higher Education

University of South Carolina’s answer to fall dilemma due to the virus: Open in person but go remote after Thanksgiving

The public university in S.C. also eliminates fall break to curtail travel.

May 18, 2020

Education

The Class of 2020: Graduating into a pandemic

Today's high school seniors grew up in the shadow of 9/11 and lived through the Great Recession. Now they're graduating into a pandemic.

May 18, 2020

Education

Colleges push viral testing, other ideas for reopening in fall. But some worry about deepening the health crisis.

Higher-education leaders are anxious to test students for coronavirus and antibodies.

May 14, 2020