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All summer, we’re recapping the previous week with some of the biggest numbers, quotes or takeaways in higher ed.
LAST WEEK’S BIG NUMBERS
25 times
Tenure-track faculty are as much as 25 times more likely to have a parent with a doctorate than the general population, according to researchers who published findings in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Human Behaviour.
Less than 10%
The employee response rate in the State University System of Florida to a state-mandated survey to measure “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity” on campuses. That was still higher than the response rate for students, which was under 3%.
79,000
Roughly 79,000 borrowers who attended Westwood College, a for-profit chain that closed in 2016, will receive $1.5 billion in student loan forgiveness after the U.S. Department of Education said the institution “engaged in widespread misrepresentations” about the value of its credentials and students' employment prospects.
