Staff writer

Office phone: 757-222-3893

Email: matthew.bowers@pilotonline.com

Matthew Bowers covers higher education.

Since coming to the Pilot from a small Maryland newspaper in 1985, Matt has also covered local schools and state education issues, courts, police and fire, and family and children’s issues.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and sociology from Western Maryland College, now McDaniel College, in 1977, and a law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1982.

His wife teaches, and his daughter, a recent college graduate with majors in chemistry and physics and minors in art history and theater, shows no interest in either of her parents’ professions.