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Mikhail Zinshteyn

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Mikhail Zinshteyn has been a higher education reporter since 2015. As a freelancer, he contributed to The Atlantic, The Hechinger Report, Inside Higher Ed and The 74. Previously, he was a reporter at EdSource and before that a program manager at the Education Writers Association. Mikhail was born in the Soviet Union and has a master's degree in comparative politics from the London School of Economics. He is based in Los Angeles. Pell grants and work-study helped pay for his undergraduate degree at Union College.

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Isael Corona, a math major at UC Berkeley, looks out the window from his student apartment near campus where he lives with a roommate on Sept. 3, 2020. Corona says he misses being with his friends but wanted to be back on campus. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

College coronavirus testing varies by system, campus

Mikhail ZinshteynFelicia MelloAvatar by Mikhail Zinshteyn, Felicia Mello and Kimberly Morales September 10, 2020September 24, 2020

With sometimes competing public health guidelines coming from the CDC and state and local sources, colleges and universities have made different decisions about how much coronavirus testing should be done, and when. Resources are a factor, according to experts.

Dr. Melina Abdullah, an advocate for overturning Prop. 209, says that human resources barred her department from saying that they were looking for people who could specifically serve Black students in a job listing. Photo by Alexis Hunley for CalMatters

A ballot prop that could boost racial equity among university faculty

Mikhail Zinshteyn by Mikhail Zinshteyn August 20, 2020September 8, 2020
Timothy P. White, Chancellor of the California State University system, prepares to testify on the failure to fully disclose a $1.5 billion surplus in a joint hearing of the Joint Legislative Audit, Senate Education, Assembly Higher Education and Assembly subcommittee on Education Finance committees on August 12, 2019. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Cal State in the COVID era: No tuition cuts, 4 other takeaways from chancellor chat

Mikhail Zinshteyn by Mikhail Zinshteyn August 20, 2020August 20, 2020
Retrato de la Dra. Melina Abdullah, expresidenta del departamento de estudios panafricanos de Cal State Los Ángeles y cofundadora del capítulo de Los Ángeles de Black Lives Matter el 18 de agosto de 2020. Abdullah dice que la prohibición de la acción afirmativa ha sido "enormemente problemática tanto en términos de reclutamiento como de retención de profesores afroamericanos". Fotografía de Alexis Hunley para CalMatters

Una propuesta electoral que podría impulsar la equidad racial entre el profesorado universitario

Mikhail Zinshteyn by Mikhail Zinshteyn August 20, 2020August 28, 2020
Assemblymember Shirley Weber, center, receives applause from fellow lawmakers after the Assembly approved her measure to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot to let voters decide if the state should overturn its ban on affirmative action programs, at the Capitol in Sacramento June 10, 2020. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli

California State University now requires ethnic studies

Mikhail Zinshteyn by Mikhail Zinshteyn August 18, 2020August 18, 2020
University of California police form a barrier around a group of students before they are arrested and carted away for blocking an intersection at the entrance to UC Santa Cruz on February 12, 2020. Photo by Dan Coyro, Santa Cruz Sentinel

UC Regents want to investigate top salary cuts

Mikhail Zinshteyn by Mikhail Zinshteyn August 3, 2020August 3, 2020

Schools mobilize to teach teachers how to educate virtually

Mikhail Zinshteyn by Mikhail Zinshteyn July 29, 2020August 3, 2020
A group of students studying various disciplines of ethnic studies at Cal State campuses visit the Capitol to lobby for legislation to require such classes as a condition for graduation. Photo courtesy of Raven Freebird

Should ethnic studies be a grad requirement? Cal State clashes with lawmakers

Mikhail ZinshteynOmar Rashad by Mikhail Zinshteyn and Omar Rashad July 16, 2020September 24, 2020
Portrait of Ohio State President Michael V. Drake in front of Bricker Hall on The Ohio State University campus. Photo via Wikimedia Commons

UC system picks first Black president

Mikhail Zinshteyn by Mikhail Zinshteyn July 7, 2020July 7, 2020
Students at UCLA walk across Dickson Court North on August 7, 2019. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

UC students must ready for an online, socially distanced fall

Mikhail Zinshteyn by Mikhail Zinshteyn June 25, 2020June 25, 2020

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