Melissa Korn

Melissa Korn is a New York City-based reporter at The Wall Street Journal, covering higher education. She writes about admissions, student debt, regulatory affairs and culture wars on campuses nationwide, as well as about the shifting business models of public and private institutions. She occasionally writes about mountaintop graduations and robot teaching assistants as well. She previously covered business schools, workplace issues, and college-to-career pathways for The Journal, and before that wrote about for-profit colleges for its sister publication, Dow Jones Newswires.



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