From the Daily Princetonian: Food trucks, trips to New York City, and rock-stacking activities during winter break will be no more. Following the spring semester’s funding cuts, hiring freeze, and scrutiny from the federal government, the University will discontinue the Office of Campus Engagement (OCE) and its flagship program, Wintersession, effective Sept. 2, citing “challenging budgetary circumstances,” according to an email sent to Campus Life staff...
Wintersession will be shut down after six years... The office’s closure is one of the first significant cuts announced by the University, which asked most departments and units in May to prepare plans for 5–10 percent budget reductions. “This change and other cost-reduction efforts reflect financial challenges spurred by the federal government’s reassessment of its relationship with American higher education, as well as broader economic uncertainty,” the University said in a press release.
Launched in 2021, Wintersession was a free, two-week series of events open to all members of the Princeton community. Anyone could lead a session, which ranged from skill-based workshops to keynote events...
From the Middlebury Campus: [Middlebury] The college will end all residential graduate programs and certain online degrees at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) by June 2027. In a community-wide email and video announcement, college President Ian Baucom said that the Board of Trustees decided on Wednesday, August 27 to approve his recommendation that Middlebury phase its Monterey-based programs out within the next two years, citing severe under enrollment and financial deficits. This decision follows the college’s announcement of its $14.1 million dollar deficit in April, $8.7 million of which is accounted for by the struggling Institute. The series of cost-saving measures listed in that budget update, which included reductions to the retirement benefits of faculty and staff and increases in enrollment, sparked several forms of protest and calls to dissolve MIIS from Vermont faculty, staff and students. In May, faculty voted in overwhelming favor of a motion demanding the closure of MIIS within three years...
Full story at https://www.middleburycampus.com/article/2025/08/middlebury-to-close-miis-by-june-2027.
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