Reporter
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.