According to National Student Clearinghouse, undergraduate enrollment in traditional information and computer science degrees at four-year institutions fell by 8.1 percent in the fall of 2025 compared to fall 2024.
Phil Trella, associate vice provost and director of the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs, confirmed that preliminary data shows that, after a period of climbing Ph.D. enrollment, fewer students are applying to the University’s Ph.D. programs, and the programs themselves are becoming smaller.
Two years after the University began offering tech-free courses through its Summer Technology Sabbatical, the program has expanded, with courses offered this summer in psychology and engineering.
According to the website, its research spans college access and success, early childhood education, school leadership and accountability, teacher quality, labor market trends and methodology and measurement studies.
“Full marks to Yale. They played hard, were very organized and it was hard to break them down,” Coach Steve Swanson said. “We’re happy to get the win, but our overall quality today was not what we hoped. It could be a lot better.”
The question the University must start asking is not how harshly students should be scrutinized for seeking accommodations, but why so many of them feel that they have no other choice.
But reducing The Virginian to just another restaurant or college bar misses exactly what has kept the establishment alive and well for over a century.
Students were left talking about the set long after it ended, and echoes of “Shaq” could be heard throughout the crowd as students took their places at Scott Stadium.
