Western Michigan athletic director Kathy Beauregard announced in a WMU Townhall meeting on Monday that the athletic department is making cuts of "over $6 million."
Beauregard told the Western Herald back at the beginning of April that the department was already set to see a cut of at least $2 million, as the university was in a "cost reduction" mode before the coronavirus pandemic set in due to declining enrollment.
A further reduction after the financial impacts of the pandemic was inevitable as Beauregard says athletics will have to operate in a different way going forward than what it is used to.