Audrey Williams June
Audrey Williams June is the news-data manager at The Chronicle. She explores and analyzes data sets, databases, and records to uncover higher-education trends, insights, and stories.
She has built several areas of expertise since arriving at The Chronicle, in 2001, including the academic job market, faculty pay, and efforts to diversify the faculty.
Before coming to The Chronicle, Audrey was a business reporter for The Charlotte Observer, in North Carolina. While there, she wrote about the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur and the city’s banking industry. She has also worked for The Telegraph, in Macon, Ga., as an environmental reporter.
Audrey earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in economics at Florida A&M University. When she’s not wrangling data, you’ll find her browsing the stacks at her local public library.
Stories by this Author
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DataA Rocky Stock Market Sent the Value of College Endowments Tumbling Last Year
The average one-year return for endowments in the 2022 fiscal year was -8 percent, down from a 30.6-percent return the year before. -
Data
Big Drops in Enrollment Hit Colleges in the First Fall of the Pandemic. Who Was Able to Bounce Back?
Search our database to see whose enrollments recovered, whose started clawing their way back, and whose kept falling. -
Data
After Years of Drops, Undergraduate Enrollment Shows ‘Signs of Recovery’
Freshman enrollment, up 4.3 percent, is a big reason why. -
Admissions & Enrollment
Where Applications to College Have Swelled During the Past Decade
Submissions to public and private nonprofit four-year colleges grew 46 percent from 2011 to 2021, according to a Chronicle analysis. -
Data
Which Universities Spend the Most Money on Research?
Most institutions in the top 30 spent $1 billion or more on research in the 2021 fiscal year. -
Data
The State With Too Many Campuses
Pennsylvania’s higher-ed landscape faces steep challenges. Its large number of colleges relative to its traditional-age student population is a big reason. -
Data
Higher Ed’s Enrollment Fell Again This Fall, if a Bit More Slowly
A 1.1-percent decline, both in undergraduates and in total enrollment, suggests academe’s recovery has yet to arrive. -
Data
‘A Perilous Position’: Some Community-College Students Struggle to Meet Basic Needs, Report Says
Twenty-nine percent were food-insecure, and 14 percent were housing-insecure, according to the Center for Community College Student Engagement. -
Decline in Doctorates
America’s Ph.D. Production Experienced Its Steepest Drop on Record
The number of doctoral degrees declined by 5.4 percent in 2021, according to the National Science Foundation. -
Data
Some High-School Grads Say No to College. Here’s Why — and What Might Change Their Minds.
Nearly 40 percent of respondents to a new survey said cost was the main barrier keeping them from college. But they also said money alone wasn’t the answer.
