Fall 2025 Online Elsewhere Report
Online Elsewhere Fall 2025 Report By Richard Cameron California community college online student publications had a busy semester as national chaos came from a blitzkrieg of federal changes to education in the country. Fifty-two online publications had the second most prolific Fall semester since this project began in Spring 2020. Despite some strong posting months, the 52 publications ended just behind Fall 2024 for the lead spot. There were 3,956 stories this fall (Aug. 1 through Dec. 31), compared to the 4,120 published a year earlier, a 3.5 percent decrease. Along with the standard fare of campus event stories, sports stories, movie and other entertainment reviews, there were stories about the fallout of the murder of a ardent conservative spokesman, sweeping DEI repudiations and budget cuts by the federal government, devasting immigration raids by ICE, and unmet basic food and other needs caused by a government shutdown that halted SNAP benefits for college students an...