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This episode of Why Don’t We Know was done in collaboration with the Spencer Education fellowship at Columbia University, where host Sara Ganim was a fellow for the 2021-2022 academic year. Additionally, a companion piece ran in USA Today, elaborating on specific cases, with insight from other experts, lawyers and students who have been presented with these agreements.
Why is data collection so darn difficult?
This episode of Why Don’t We Know was done in collaboration with the Spencer Education fellowship at Columbia University, where host Sara Ganim was a fellow for the 2021-2022 academic year. Additionally, a companion piece ran in USA Today, elaborating on specific cases, with insight from other experts, lawyers and students who have been presented with these agreements.
Who are body cameras really for?
This episode of Why Don’t We Know was done in collaboration with the Spencer Education fellowship at Columbia University, where host Sara Ganim was a fellow for the 2021-2022 academic year. Additionally, a companion piece ran in USA Today, elaborating on specific cases, with insight from other experts, lawyers and students who have been presented with these agreements.
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This episode of Why Don’t We Know was done in collaboration with the Spencer Education fellowship at Columbia University, where host Sara Ganim was a fellow for the 2021-2022 academic year. Additionally, a companion piece ran in USA Today, elaborating on specific cases, with insight from other experts, lawyers and students who have been presented with these agreements.
Welcome to Season 2
This episode of Why Don’t We Know was done in collaboration with the Spencer Education fellowship at Columbia University, where host Sara Ganim was a fellow for the 2021-2022 academic year. Additionally, a companion piece ran in USA Today, elaborating on specific cases, with insight from other experts, lawyers and students who have been presented with these agreements.
WDWK wins public service award from Education Writers Association
We’re thrilled to say that, in its debut year, Why Don't We Know walked away with top honors in the annual Educational Writers Association national journalism awards. Our podcast was recognized with first place in the Public Service category, which according to the EWA, “recognizes journalism that makes a substantive
Twin trash fires continue to burn at two state universities we highlighted in season one
Two of the public universities that we highlighted in our episodes about secrecy in Title IX investigations continue to make bad headlines about their handling of major cases. In what the Lansing State Journal called a “scathing report,” the Michigan Attorney General’s office said the university is a place
Colleges and COVID-19: We asked the schools who are secretive about concussion data for their pandemic numbers and here’s what we found
In season 1, we asked about 100 public universities for their data on concussions, only to discover that many schools are not keep track of it, making it difficult to know if college sports are truly getting safer. Then a global pandemic struck, which got us wondering: Are those
Two U.S. college students die in hazing-related incidents leaving the public with plenty of unanswered questions
Despite the pandemic and social distancing restrictions, two U.S. college students died this semester in hazing-related incidents that have left the public with plenty of unanswered questions. In Season 1, Episode 4 of Why Don’t We Know, we looked at how misconduct within Greek life is often handled secretly at universities,
Kentucky Supreme Court rules in favor of journalists seeking sexual misconduct documents
The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled in favor of student journalists, forcing the University of Kentucky to turn over documents related to sexual misconduct allegations against professors. The university had tried to fight the release, citing student privacy laws. But after a four-year legal battle, the court ruled on