Conor Morris
Reporter/ProducerExpertise: Education reporting, public records, general assignment, investigative reporting
Education: Wooster High School
Ohio University - Bachelor of Science, journalism
Favorite spot in Northeast Ohio: Upper Edgewater Park
Experience:
Conor Morris covers education in Northeast Ohio. A 2014 Ohio University alum, he previously worked at The Athens NEWS in Southeast Ohio, covering criminal justice, education and more. He moved to Cleveland in 2020 to work with the Northeast Ohio Solutions Journalism Collaborative as a reporter and Report for America corps member, where he covered poverty and the pandemic's impact on Northeast Ohio. Conor volunteers his time to run the Unsilenced Voices of CMSD, a blog for Cleveland Metropolitan School District students. He was born in Marietta, Ohio.
Highlights:
- Won numerous statewide press awards for his investigative and feature reporting on higher education, criminal justice and poverty with The Athens NEWS in Southeast Ohio.
- 2023 Ohio Associated Press Media Editors Award, First Place Best Digital Project & Ohio Society of Professional Journalists Award, Best Medical/Science/Health Care Reporting - “Redlining is affecting Northeast Ohio's children's ability to breathe. Here's what we can do”
- Past stories featured on the Solutions Journalism Network's Solutions Story Tracker, which highlights stories that dig into both a problem and its solution.
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Teachers hope the project at the rural Medina school district will help foster a love of reading among students and build back social skills that might have been hampered during the pandemic.
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Youngstown State President Bill Johnson discussed higher education's enrollment woes while also responding to criticism about his political background.
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The institution has seen enrollment declines and is using $9 million from its reserves to pay for the retirement incentive program, meant to help the college cut costs in the long run.
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Father Frank Canfield, a former campus minister at Saint Ignatius High School from 2006 to 2014, had allegedly sexually abused another student at a different Jesuit high school in Ohio in 2000.
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Students in the high-performing men's and women's teams were left to figure out where to go after Notre Dame College announced it would be closing.
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Inflation, voter apathy and partisanship may have all played a role in the defeat of levies on the March 2024 primary ballot, according to some involved with local levy campaigns.
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Amid ongoing financial difficulties, the board of trustees voted recently to shutter the troubled community college by the end of May if no other new funding comes through.
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Which schools are closing due to the total solar eclipse in the region, on April 5, and how are they approaching the issue?
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Wednesday's announcement from Eastern Gateway comes following word in February that the school would pause enrollment and that current students not graduating in spring 2024 would need to complete their studies elsewhere.
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Some students in the Akron Public Schools can expect changes next year after the Akron Board of Education voted during a special meeting Wednesday night to approve a redistricting plan.