Washington University needs to make significant cuts to address an anticipated $30 million shortfall in the fiscal year starting July 1, 2010, Chancellor Mark Wrighton wrote in an email to the university today.

Most of that shortfall, which largely affects the…

In a university-wide email today, Washington University Chancellor Mark Wrighton said the school “will mostly likely face significant financial problems in the next several years,” including a projected $20 to $25 million shortfall on the Danforth campus in fiscal year…

Thomas Patton, the longtime chief of St. Louis College of Pharmacy, announced this week that he will step down in 2010.

Patton, 60, has served as president of the college located in the Central West End for a marathon 15 years.…

Maryville President Mark Lombardi

Maryville University is considering a roughly 3 percent tuition increase for next year — a smaller increase than the last several years when tuition increases there have averaged about 5.2 percent.

President Mark Lombardi told me when I…

St. Louis University will increase undergraduate tuition next year by 2 percent — the smallest percentage tuition increase in several years. As the Rev. Lawrence Biondi, SLU’s president, explains in a letter to faculty and staff,  the move is aimed…

The economic downturn has hit many universities hard, especially for those that depend on their endowments, which have been shrinking like most people’s 401K’s. And it could get worse, particularly for public universities who are worried that state appropriations to…

Washington University will slow faculty salary increases, delay or eliminate some capital projects, and limit administrative hiring in light of the economic crisis, Chancellor Mark Wrighton wrote in an email to the university community this morning.

Wrighton said he has even…

In an email to the SLU community yesterday, the Rev. Lawrence Biondi told students, faculty, and staff that the school is in a financially strong position. But, SLU’s president said, like many other universities nationwide, SLU is feeling the effects…