It has been another season of austerity in higher education.
Many colleges are dealing with some combination of falling enrollment, increasing costs, federal policy uncertainty and state funding cuts, along with a host of other private circumstances.
As they prepare their fiscal 2027 spending plans, organizations from Bowie State University in Maryland to Portland State University are slashing costs, laying off employees and taking other measures to secure their finances.
Some institutional leaders say they are facing a full-blown crisis. But others frame the cuts as difficult choices made now to avoid even much deeper decreases down the roadway.
Here’s a take a look at our coverage of institution of higher learnings that retrenched in methods big and little during May: