From a look at when colleges can expect the highly anticipated final Title regulations to Indiana’s launch of a new direct admissions program here are the top-line figures from some of the week’s biggest stories.
By the numbers
120
The days it can take for the Office of Management and Budget, a key government agency, to review federal regulations. The U.S. Department of Education has not yet sent its final Title IX proposals to this agency, meaning officials won’t likely meet their own October deadline for releasing the regulations.
29%
The share of surveyed college seniors who reported that they frequently felt burnt out during their undergraduate career. A larger share, 51%, said they sometimes felt the symptoms of burnout, marked by chronic exhaustion and lack of motivation, the poll found.
$72 million
The amount of loans the Education Department plans to discharge for former students of Ashford University. University of Arizona, which acquired the for-profit online college and morphed it into the University of Arizona Global Campus, may end up on the hook for some of the cost.
5
The faculty members West Virginia University plans to keep for its world language programming after initially planning to do away with all 24 positions. The public flagship announced this week plans to spare some of its world language offerings — specifically instruction in Chinese and Spanish — instead of going forward with its original plan to ditch them altogether.
38
The number of public and private colleges participating in Indiana’s new direct admissions program, which will start with the state’s high school class of 2024. They include Indiana State University, Ivy Tech Community College and Valparaiso University.
