The last proposal from the Humanities Dean (noted here) met with a lot of pushback, so the Dean issued a revised plan, more in line with that a faculty committee had recommended:   "We will have a pause for all PhD admissions except for two departments with unique situations related to their previous pauses: Philosophy and Music Composition. This one-time decision applies only to the 2026–2027 academic year."  The previous pauses occurred during Covid, and both Philosophy and Music Composition saw a significant drop in their PhD enrollment, hence the exception this time.