Reporter

Marcella Bombardieri

Bombardieri covers higher education. She previously spent five years working on investigative projects with the Spotlight Team, where she shared a George Polk award for local reporting. A graduate of Brown University, she has worked at the Globe since 1999.

Latest stories

Professors take lessons from online teaching

By Marcella Bombardieri , Globe Staff

The explosion of free online classes at prestigious universities has provided a vast laboratory to study how people learn.

Harvard dean at center of e-mail controversy resigning

By Marcella Bombardieri , Globe Staff

Evelynn Hammonds, who faced criticism for authorizing searches of instructors’ e-mail accounts, will return to academia.

Amid limited budgets, colleges grapple with merit-based aid

By Marcella Bombardieri , Globe Staff

Critics say a shift by colleges to offer more merit scholarships to attract top students is leaving financially strapped students on their own.

Berklee, BU added to edX online class initiative

By Katherine Landergan and Marcella Bombardieri , Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff

One year after Harvard University and MIT launched the $60 million program, 15 new schools were added as participating universities.