35: number of faculty members in the University’s religious studies department, making it the largest at any U.S. public university, according to UVa Today
3 million: Amount, in dollars, anonymous donors have already raised for the creation of the Richard Lyman Bushman Chair of Mormon Studies in said department, to be approved by the Board of Visitors
0: Current number of public universities outside of the state of Utah with a chair in Mormon Studies
350: Number of top-ranked universities responding to a survey by Kaplan Test Prep that asked about college admissions
26: Percent of these schools that examined an applicant’s Facebook, according to the Kaplan survey
35: Percent of these schools that found something on Facebook or Google that negatively impacted an applicant’s admissions chances, according to said survey
38: Percent of public universities in the Association of American Universities (AAU) that have seen their presidents leave within the past year and a half
6’ 7”: Approximate height of AAU president Hunter Rawlings, who spoke at the University Monday
25: Number of years before it would be appropriate to reconsider the question of affirmative action’s constitutionality, according to the ruling opinion in the 2003 Supreme Court case Grutter v. Bollinger, which upheld affirmative action
9: Number of years between the Bollinger case and Fisher v. University of Texas, which opened at the Supreme Court last week and could overturn affirmative action
4: Number of years between Abigail Fisher filing suit against the University of Texas and her case being heard by the Court
1: Approximate number of hours Court justices addressed the Fisher v. University of Texas case last week during its session of oral arguments
7: Number of schools in the University of Texas System that want to provide course credit for massive open online courses (MOOCs) taken through edX, a MOOC distributor
1: Number of sanctions the Honor Committee presents to University students who lie, cheat or steal
2: Number of U.S. presidential candidates who would struggle in a debate at which the honor code was applied
42: Percentage of University students who would unequivocally report a fellow student should they witness an honor offense, according to a Committee survey released Sept. 30
1: Number of University laboratory researchers ruled to have been unfairly fired after reporting a superior for misrepresenting information on a research grant
1: Number of days until Wake Forest and Virginia play football in Charlottesville
2: Number of weeks until the Virginia Film Festival plays movies in Charlottesville
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