Is anywhere safe?

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Anonymous wrote:Every single school is doing this.

Doing what?

Hiring freezes and slashing budgets. Some like Northwestern are cuts of much more than 10%.

Nice try. The vast, vast majority of colleges and universities aren't slashing anything. Some were fiscally responsible, and some were not. Actions have consequences as does inaction.

Are you in academia? Or higher ed administration?

I assure you, we are all on hiring pauses/elongated processes. Everyone’s been asked to cut budgets. And by more than 10%.
- T20

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We went on the Middlebury tour in the early 2020s. It stood out as a place with a major inferiority complex - located in the middle of nowhere and yet everything was newly renovated and shiny - sweeping fireplaces and atriums around every corner that oozed of over-extended building budgets, and all for nothing - seriously what is the point? Amherst and Williams are rough around the edges - as are Columbia and Yale. The Asst.AD that conducted our tour was a ridiculous little twit. They did this to themselves - what a joke.

[Anonymous]

UVA does not have the same issues as at Middlebury or UMichigan. While there is general belt tightening, there is nothing like the panic or alarm you see at other schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Middlebury remarks that its recent financial trajectory falls short of literally all of its NESCAC peers:

"Carrying a deficit every June 30, as we’ve done for too long, is too great a weight, one that eventually will hamper our ability to deliver on our mission. Our deficits are continually an outlier among our NESCAC peers, which all operate profitably, experiencing only occasional downturns."

There was also this gem:

“To say it as clearly as possible, our challenge is this: We haven’t been able to balance our books despite significant progress in how we do business. We simply must get ourselves to the balanced budget that has eluded us, year over year, to be able to support our mission today and into the future.“

Omg...did Middlebury's PR team know this was going to be publicized? Embarrassing IMHO but I'm not a Middlebury booster so what do I know, right? Middlebury boosters will probably claim this somehow proves it's a peer of Harvard.

It’s an open letter to students and staff from the interim president, provost, and CFO and posted on the website so I assume so: https://www.middlebury.edu/announcements/announcements/2025/04/budget-our-way-forward#the-latest-figures

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA does not have the same issues as at Middlebury or UMichigan. While there is general belt tightening, there is nothing like the panic or alarm you see at other schools.

UVA is hardly immune. Did you miss this? https://news.virginia.edu/content/economic-uncertainty-looms-uva-takes-proactive-steps

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Anonymous wrote:Have you been to Middlebury? Who in their right mind would pay to be stuck in the college equivalent of The Shining. The ground is frozen for 80% of the school year.

It's going to have the climate of Aruba in a few years. Just you wait, Emory booster.

Lol.

People who like winter find Vermont very charming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA does not have the same issues as at Middlebury or UMichigan. While there is general belt tightening, there is nothing like the panic or alarm you see at other schools.

>The email sent to the University community Tuesday – signed by President Jim Ryan, Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Brie Gertler, Executive Vice President and Chief Operation Officer Jennifer “J.J.” Wagner Davis and Interim Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Mitch Rosner – noted the University is facing “a period of significant fiscal uncertainty, with potential deep cuts to federal spending on grants and contracts and on other core programs.”

“While our budgetary sources are diverse,” the message went on to say, “instability in several critical areas at once creates a substantial challenge for us.” <

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:UVA does not have the same issues as at Middlebury or UMichigan. While there is general belt tightening, there is nothing like the panic or alarm you see at other schools.

>The email sent to the University community Tuesday – signed by President Jim Ryan, Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Brie Gertler, Executive Vice President and Chief Operation Officer Jennifer “J.J.” Wagner Davis and Interim Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Mitch Rosner – noted the University is facing “a period of significant fiscal uncertainty, with potential deep cuts to federal spending on grants and contracts and on other core programs.”

“While our budgetary sources are diverse,” the message went on to say, “instability in several critical areas at once creates a substantial challenge for us.” <

Every university is facing fiscal uncertainty right now.

That’s not the same as Middlebury having run constant and growing operating deficits for 14 years, despite efforts to course correct.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:UVA does not have the same issues as at Middlebury or UMichigan. While there is general belt tightening, there is nothing like the panic or alarm you see at other schools.

>The email sent to the University community Tuesday – signed by President Jim Ryan, Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Brie Gertler, Executive Vice President and Chief Operation Officer Jennifer “J.J.” Wagner Davis and Interim Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Mitch Rosner – noted the University is facing “a period of significant fiscal uncertainty, with potential deep cuts to federal spending on grants and contracts and on other core programs.”

“While our budgetary sources are diverse,” the message went on to say, “instability in several critical areas at once creates a substantial challenge for us.” <

This proves absolutely nothing. Middlebury has one foot in the grave by way of suicide. Two totally different situations.

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Religiously affiliated schools

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:UVA does not have the same issues as at Middlebury or UMichigan. While there is general belt tightening, there is nothing like the panic or alarm you see at other schools.

>The email sent to the University community Tuesday – signed by President Jim Ryan, Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Brie Gertler, Executive Vice President and Chief Operation Officer Jennifer “J.J.” Wagner Davis and Interim Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Mitch Rosner – noted the University is facing “a period of significant fiscal uncertainty, with potential deep cuts to federal spending on grants and contracts and on other core programs.”

“While our budgetary sources are diverse,” the message went on to say, “instability in several critical areas at once creates a substantial challenge for us.” <

Every university is facing fiscal uncertainty right now.

That’s not the same as Middlebury having run constant and growing operating deficits for 14 years, despite efforts to course correct.

most schools with an endowment use that as a draw. that's what that means.

they're fine

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale, Grove City

No

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Religiously affiliated schools

Not an education indoctrination

Anyone sending a college kid to a religious university sucks as a parent

[Anonymous]

No school is safe moving forward trumps goal is to kill higher ed ie brain drain

He just says again he’s going fir a fourth term and maga unamerican dummies eat that shit up
The emperor with no clothes is going to not only destroy higher ed no female will be educated

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Was talking to someone a Duke yesterday. They have a hiring freeze and are worried about further staff reductions.

I think the vast majority of higher education institutions are not “safe” right now.