**By David Bressoud** **@dbressoud** ***As of 2024, new Launchings columns appear on the third Tuesday of the month.*** The 2025 CBMS Survey is currently underway. This survey of mathematics and statistics department in the United States has been conducted every five years starting in 1960 and provides important information on practices and trends in undergraduate education in the mathematical sciences. As one example, Figure 1 shows data from 1985 through 2021 (a postponement of the 2020 survey because of COVID) that reveals a large-scale decrease in math department course enrollments. Total enrollments grew sharply from 2005 to 2015, but then dropped off sharply by 2021. The decrease in Precollege mathematics was particularly precipitous, due to a documented trend to offload Precollege courses to 2-year institutions. But across the board we are looking at a loss of a fifth or more in course enrollments.…