Liz Schlemmer
Liz Schlemmer is WUNC's Education Policy Reporter, a fellowship position supported by the A.J. Fletcher Foundation. She has an M.A. from the UNC Chapel Hill School of Media & Journalism and a B.A. in history and anthropology from Indiana University.
She has previously served as a temporary Morning Edition producer and intern at WUNC and as a news intern at St. Louis Public Radio. Liz is originally from Indiana, where she grew up with a large extended family of educators.
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The teen fentanyl crisis is following students onto college campuses. Here's what students and staff are doing about it. -
At UNC-Chapel Hill, three students died from fentanyl poisoning in just the last two years. A student-led group is working to make overdose medication more available.
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Historically Black colleges and universities are using federal COVID relief funds to cancel student debt, upgrade campus infrastructure and retain students who struggle because of financial barriers. -
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School superintendents across Kentucky joined together Tuesday to ask the legislature for more overall education funding and support for teachers.The… -
While many states are still struggling to fully restore funding for public universities and community colleges since 2008, Kentucky is falling even… -
The University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville will share a $2.3 million grant to financially support more doctoral students in special… -
College graduation rates are rising in Kentucky despite declining enrollment at institutions of higher education. That means more students who start… -
A new study conducted by a University of Louisville researcher has found a link between racial disparities on student test scores and racial disparities…
