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From West Virginia University’s prepared cuts to handle a $45 million spending plan shortfall to the share of colleges expecting to increase on-line applications, in this article are the best-line figures from the week’s most significant stories.

By the figures
 
68%
The share of surveyed chief on-line officers who say they’ve used monetary incentives to really encourage school to create on line courses. A smaller sized share, 55%, claimed they’ve available remote work to instructors to prompt them to educate on-line.
 
169
The selection of college positions West Virginia College is searching to do away with. The public flagship lately unveiled a proposal for heavy cuts to tackle its $45 million finances deficit, like programs to drop 20 graduate-stage programs and 12 undergraduate majors.
 
$13.5 million
The volume the College of Chicago has agreed to shell out to settle a lawsuit alleging that it engaged in a price-repairing scheme with around a dozen other leading-ranked colleges to decrease monetary aid provides. College of Chicago is the only institution named in the lawsuit that has settled so far.
 
90
The days of see staff of Alderson Broaddus College say they were being promised prior to their employment was terminated. Now that the Baptist-affiliated university is set to close, an staff-led lawsuit alleges officials didn’t uphold their pledge — a failure lawyers say quantities to a breach of agreement.
 
10.8%
The share of debtors who took out much more than $80,000 in federal loans for their graduate education in 2016. That’s up from just 1.4% who did the same in 2004, even when modifying for inflation, according to a new evaluation from the U.S. Department of Education and learning.