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University of Puget Sound student engaging in organic chemistry research. Photo credit: Sy Bean.   Some of the Trump Administration’s most salient attacks on higher education have come in the form of funding cuts to research and fellowship programs. According to U.S. News and World Report, Trump has threatened to file lawsuits or cut funding to more than 60 universities. The administration has cut over $2 billion from major research programs at Ivy League colleges, and the Office of Management and Budget plans to cut funding in 2025 for 22 programs...

   President Isiaah Crawford shared with the campus community at the end of the previous academic year that enrollment for the 2025 incoming class was “falling short of our initial goal.” Enrollment for the class of 2029 was lower than last year, following a downward trend that began in 2018 and saw its largest drop in 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, 380 first-time college students enrolled, which is 50 students fewer and 12% smaller than last year’s incoming class. A decade ago, enrollment for first-time...

By Lina McDonald   Faculty, staff and students gathered at the University’s Budget Task Force open session on April 9, where the committee released its proposed operating budget for the next fiscal year. After several turbulent years following the COVID-19 pandemic, during which the University was operating at a deficit, the new proposed budget will minimize this gap.  The projected 2026 fiscal year expenditure base is currently set at $94.6 million. This budget assumes a tuition and fee revenue of $68.6 million, which is contingent on the number of students that...