Tuition Increases and Layoffs Are Coming to a Broad Set of Universities

The New York Times ^ | June 20, 2025Updated 7:02 a.m. ET | Alan Blinder

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Schools say the Trump administration’s cuts to higher education are forcing them to consider extreme cost-cutting measures, even as more students than ever are heading to college this year.

Public universities in the Midwest are raising prices for out-of-state students, as Florida schools consider making the same move for the first time since 2012.

Cornell and Duke are among the colleges weighing layoffs. The University of Minnesota is cutting hundreds of jobs, even as undergraduate tuition soars as much as 7.5 percent.

Just as America’s colleges are preparing to welcome what could be the largest freshman class in the nation’s history, political and economic forces are unleashing havoc on higher education budgets. Schools are grappling with meager upticks in state support and topsy-turvy economic forecasts, and Republicans in Washington are pursuing federal budget cuts and threatening tax hikes.

Students and employees from coast to coast are poised to feel the squeeze. Although the exact consequences will vary by school, administrators are warning that many students may have to pay more, professors may lose their jobs, programs could vanish and support services could shrink.

The turmoil is not limited to any one type of university or college, or any one state. A day before Michigan State University trustees opted for tuition increases, a California State University campus minutes from the Pacific Ocean announced that it was trimming its work force.

“If you’re a student or family looking to go to college this year, all of the numbers are going in the wrong direction,” said Ted Mitchell, the president of the American Council on Education, who described the mood among higher education leaders as “dark but resolved.”

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: newyorkslimes; nyslimes

[Skwor]

Boo Hoo, how about you actually start putting in 40 hour year round work week to begin with.

Lazy jerks the lot of them.

[MrRelevant]

Cant they dip into their billions of dollar endowments?

[newzjunkey]

FL universities have raised prices since 2012? And raising them is somehow a problem thirteen years later?

[mr.olwol]

Tuition ≠ enrollment. Very clever wording on the part of this sycophant.

[packrat35]

Not when you can use other people’s money...

[MrRelevant]

Endowments are other peoples money…. Filthy rich peoples money.

[The FIGHTIN Illini]

Actually, maybe the free ride tenured professors could teach classes again, classes like 100 level undergrad/freshMAN classes or even the now required remedial math, science, english/lit courses.

[packrat35]

If it is the biggest class ever, then we don’t need all those foreign rioters over here pretending to be students.

[Carry_Okie]

Just as America’s colleges are preparing to welcome what could be the largest freshman class in the nation’s history,

More NYTBS.

[Getready]

So?

[Revel]

That stood out to me too. As I have been hearing that younger people are less interested in college. So many college degrees are worthless and at an extreme cost.

[billorites]

Make them howl.

[Vision]

Rotting and evil from the inside out.

[KC_Conspirator]

Big academia is a scam, living off taxpyer money and creating indoctrination centers.

[SMARTY]

😁

[magooey]

... administrators are warning that many students may have to pay more, professors may lose their jobs, programs could vanish and support services could shrink.

But bureaucrats (i.e. administrators) will never get cut.