From further more spending plan cuts at West Virginia College to a financial loan cancellation announcement from the U.S. Section of Instruction, here are the top-line figures from some of our biggest tales of the 7 days.

By the numbers
 
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The number of academic plans the State College of New York at Potsdam strategies to eliminate more than the next handful of years to counter a $9 million funds gap. The university’s president unveiled the programming cuts Tuesday and warned that SUNY Potsdam will also will need to eliminate some faculty positions.
 
$37M
The worth of university student loans the U.S. Department of Instruction said Wednesday it would distinct for selected debtors who attended the College of Phoenix. The agency alleged that the for-financial gain college misled the debtors through a misleading ad campaign that ran amongst 2012 and 2014.
 
$800K
The maximum sum West Virginia College have to slash its library staff spending plan, per suggestions from the provost’s office environment. Influenced workers will be notified in December if they’re amongst all those terminated.
 
$12B
The amount of point out funding historically Black land-grant faculties have lost out on over the past handful of many years, according to the Schooling Department. The agency identified the major funding deficits have been in Tennessee and North Carolina, where by HBCUs in each and every state must have obtained far more than $2 billion.
 
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The amount of institutions that dropped out of the best 10 in this year’s college or university rankings from U.S. News & Globe Report. Regardless of methodology alterations, the upper rankings hardly budged as opposed to previous yr — however College of Chicago slid to 12th spot and Brown University climbed into the leading 10, at No. 9.