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For the first time in its 125-year history, the University of Puget Sound Women’s League is welcoming its first male member. Photo courtesy of Kim McDowell.   Founded in 1900, the League is one of the oldest organizations on campus. Since its inception, the League has focused on supporting students: fundraising to help pay for buildings, furnishing student residences, facilitating library acquisitions, starting scholarships and more. The League is perhaps best known for its annual Fieldhouse Flea Market, which it has sponsored since 1968, and allows the community to come together...

   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...

An aerial view of the tent where Charlie Kirk was shot. KSL News Utah (CC Unported License) On Sept. 10, 2025, political influencer Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a Turning Point USA event held at Utah Valley University’s campus. The suspected shooter, Tyler Robinson, faces preliminary charges of aggravated murder.Colleges nationwide are reevaluating their safety plans in the wake of this attack on a university-facilitated guest speaker. Director of Security Services Dave Ferber explained, “Puget Sound Security Services regularly communicates with other colleges and universities to review best practices related...

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...