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Chris Quintana

Washington, D.C.

Investigative Reporter at USA Today

@USATODAY reporter interested in higher ed and what you know. Runner, New Mexican, seltzer stan, state school grad [email protected]

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Articles

  • 1 week ago | usatoday.com | Chris Quintana

    Liberty University will pay its former president, Jerry Falwell Jr., about $15 million to settle litigation following his 2020 resignation after a high-profile sex scandal that drew national attention to the private Christian institution. While the settlement was announced in 2024, neither Falwell nor Liberty shared details about what it included − or how much Falwell would get paid.

  • Feb 25, 2025 | usatoday.com | Chris Quintana

    A former Liberty University staffer is suing the private Christian school, saying administrators fired him for reporting sexual harassment. Peter Brake worked as an investigator in the university’s Title IX office, typically the unit that investigates claims of sexual violence on campus.

  • Feb 6, 2025 | usatoday.com | Chris Quintana |Kenny Jacoby

    National Signing Day has come and gone, which means thousands of young men are still searching for a college football team to call home. Many will try to walk onto teams or accept that their football careers are over. Others will be lured into post-grad football, where players pay thousands of dollars to pursue their college football dreams.

  • Jan 31, 2025 | usatoday.com | Chris Kenning |Chris Quintana

    Just before Capt. Jonathan Campos boarded the American Eagle flight he would pilot to Washington D.C., he called his aunt: He was looking forward to a Caribbean cruise with extended family they’d been planning for a year. Next to him in the cockpit was Sam Lilley, the flight’s 28-year-old first officer, who was also looking to the future. He was engaged to be married in the fall, Lilley’s father, Tim, said in a Facebook post.

  • Dec 12, 2024 | usatoday.com | Kenny Jacoby |Chris Quintana

    Leo Etienne swivels back and forth in his chair behind a faux wooden desk in a cramped office. An unopened pack of toilet paper rolls rests on a side table next to a printer. Etienne prefers to be interviewed here instead of in his main office, which he says is too messy. Inside the concrete office building-slash-warehouse with no exterior signs, off a road with no sidewalks in a Central Florida city of 20,000, a group of about two dozen young men lift weights while blasting hip-hop music.

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Chris Quintana
Chris Quintana @CQuintanaDC
9 May 25

RT @AnaCabrera: Villanova President on Pope Leo (an alumnus): "I just got an email from him.. I wrote to him 'will you be commencement spea…

Chris Quintana
Chris Quintana @CQuintanaDC
8 May 25

RT @AlexGangitano: Pope Leo XIV, who at the time went by Lou, in the 1973 Villanova freshman register for the class of 1977 https://t.co/Vc…

Chris Quintana
Chris Quintana @CQuintanaDC
8 May 25

There's always a higher ed angle

Dana O'Neil
Dana O'Neil @DanaONeilWriter

Walking across the Villanova campus. Church bells ringing, helicopters circling and students congregating outside the chapel. One priest "this is crazy!" Pretty cool