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From job eliminations at Marietta College to insights into why community college students stop out, here are the top-line figures from some of our biggest stories of the week.
By the numbers
14
The number of administrators that Marietta College plans to cut over the next three years as the private nonprofit braces for demographic challenges. The Ohio college also intends to cut 22 faculty members.
31%
The share of stopped-out community college students who said they left their programs because they could no longer afford to attend, according to a recent New America survey. Almost half cited work as a major reason.
2025
The year that Rep. Virginia Foxx, a North Carolina Republican, will step down as chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. She has been a member of the committee since she joined Congress in 2005.
7.7%
The average one-year endowment return that higher education institutions saw after fees in fiscal year 2023, according to a new study from the National Association of College and University Business Officers and Commonfund. The rise was largely due to strong public equity markets.
$49.5 billion
The market value of Harvard University’s endowment — the largest in the country — in fiscal year 2023, according to the NACUBO-Commonfund study. That represents just a 0.1% increase over the previous year.
