University of Denver leadership approved a fiscal 2027 budget balanced by keeping staff vacancies unfilled and cutting expenses, while simultaneously announcing a major restructuring of academic units. The private nonprofit plans to consolidate five schools and colleges into two and eliminate five departments, with ongoing programs continuing under new organizational structures. Chancellor Jeremy Haefner and Provost Elizabeth Loboa framed the changes as a response to budget pressures and market demand, not purely a cost-saving effort. The plan merges the graduate schools of social work, professional psychology and education into a single education-focused college and combines engineering/computer science with natural sciences and mathematics, plus kinesiology and sport studies. DU will also eliminate religious studies and electrical and computer engineering departments this year, while three additional departments voluntarily shutter. New units will be created to expand language and culture and communication and media arts, and internal dean searches are expected to begin this fall. In a related governance and wind-down development, Hampshire College trustees agreed to keep a teach-out on track through December by securing an agreement in principle on a philanthropic loan. President Jenn Chrisler said the loan gives the board enough financial confidence to manage campus closure operations and plan land sales while ensuring students can finish or make progress toward degrees.