The flagship news website of the Student Free Press Association, The College Fix, experienced the most page views of its entire 10-year history in April 2020 with its COVID-19 news coverage. In reporting on a variety of experts and scholars who weighed in with questions and concerns to the coronavirus response, it became clear Americans were very hungry for alternative news sources on this epidemic. The College Fix filled that niche, attracting more than seven million page views in the span of one month.

The College Fix also leads the way in chronicling how the pandemic and its economic impact is starting to burst the higher education bubble. College Fix‘s articles on how universities are scrambling to survive have been widely shared, becoming fodder for experts and pundits alike. College Fix will continue to report on how administrators may not be able to maintain their bloated budgets and how funding priorities are reshaped.

College Fix‘s investigative reports also continue to raise important flags. For example, College Fix continues to expose how the prestigious $30,000 federal Truman Scholarship, which is supposed to be bipartisan, is given almost exclusively to students who identify as Democrats and progressives. College Fix has analyzed the results each year for the last several years to paint a broad picture of the problem, and 2020 was no exception.