SEATTLE — New University of Washington President Robert Jones now leads a school — and Seattle’s largest employer — that’s weathered several turbulent years of money problems, protests and a pandemic.

He took over at the start of the month, and many of the issues Jones faces were inherited from retired President Ana Mari Cauce’s decadelong tenure and typical of a large public university: enrollment changes, financial challenges and concerns about staff and student well-being. But he’s also taken the helm amid the Trump administration’s unprecedented targeting of higher education institutions.

It’s the challenges that President Cauce had been facing down for the last year, that’s what our new president is going to be stepping into,” said Abraham Flaxman, a UW professor of global health. “

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