Reporter

Carmichael is the higher education reporter. She previously worked as an award-winning senior writer at Newsweek and has also written for The Economist, Nature, Scientific American, and others. She was a 2010-2011 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
Documents suggest that Elizabeth Warren was repeatedly classified as Native American in a way that apparently did not adhere to federal diversity guidelines.
The only difference between the two groups in the study was that the online students appeared to learn faster.
L. Rafael Reif, the school’s provost, takes over from Susan Hockfield, who announced three months ago that she would step down.
Twenty percent of college presidents in the US now come from fields outside academia, a sharp increase from 13 percent just six years ago, according to a survey.