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Colleges Use Courts To Keep Agents, Boosters Away From Student-Athletes

The NCAA announced Wednesday that the Oklahoma Sooners eight wins from the 2005 season would be invalidated because two players employed by a booster received pay for jobs they didn’t actually work. The athletics department will face other athletic sanctions as well. States and colleges, trying to avoid situations like that, are increasingly turning to the courts to help protect the integrity of big-time college athletics.

July 11, 2007

A suggestion for college coaches: teach by example

While most will remember the 1997 National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) men’s basketball Final Four Tournament for the University of Arizona’s improbable run to a national championship, the most significant collegiate sports event of that particular weekend occurred off the court.

July 11, 2007

States and colleges are increasingly turning to the courts to help protect the integrity of big-time college athletics.

States and colleges are increasingly turning to the courts to help protect the integrity of big-time college athletics.

July 11, 2007

Professional Appointments

Dr. Marilyn Sanders Mobley has been named provost at Bennett College for Women (N.C.). She had most recently been associate provost for educational programs at George Mason University. Mobley holds a bachelor’s from Barnard College, a master’s from New York University and a doctorate from Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Mary Beadle has been […]

July 11, 2007

Jury Awards $5.85 Million in Fresno State Discrimination Suit

FRESNO Calif. A jury on Monday awarded a former Fresno State volleyball coach $5.85 million in damages, ruling that the school discriminated against her for speaking up on behalf of female athletes.

July 10, 2007

Set up to fail? New restrictions on Central State University considered “punitive” by supporters

Central State University supporters fear that a compromise plan to rescue the school could end up killing it instead.

July 10, 2007

Black coaches convention focuses on job-hunting strategies; collegiate athletic directors, sensitized to concerns, participate in interview clinics

Concerned about the paucity of Black coaches and athletics administrators on college campuses, the Black Coaches Association (BCA) devoted a major portion of its annual conference, held last month in Miami, to helping its members prepare and successfully compete for positions in higher education.

July 10, 2007

Changing the complexion of collegiate golf; Andy Walker helps pave the way by helping Pepperdine to NCAA championship – National Collegiate Athletic Association

Please don’t call Andy Walker the next Tiger Woods. He’s too busy being the first Andy Walker.

July 10, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Athletics return, but the struggle continues at UDC; Harvard professors, local AAUP members unite to aid faltering institution – University of the District of Columbia; American Association of University Professors

Washington The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) will reinstate its athletics program in the fall, thanks to a referendum vote by students to increase student athletic fees by $50.

July 10, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Athletics return, but the struggle continues at UDC; Harvard professors, local AAUP members unite to aid faltering institution – University of the District of Columbia; American Association of University Professors

Washington The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) will reinstate its athletics program in the fall, thanks to a referendum vote by students to increase student athletic fees by $50.

July 10, 2007

Louisiana HBCU Loses Several Football Players Because of Academic Ineligibility

BATON ROUGE La. Nine Southern University football players including several starters will not be with the program this fall, coach Pete Richardson said.

July 9, 2007

UCLA Hires New Director of Basketball Operations

LOS ANGELES Joe Hillock, the women’s coach at Southern Utah for 10 years, has been hired as director of operations for the UCLA men’s basketball program.

July 8, 2007

UNO Coach Williams Resigns After One Season

NEW ORLEANS University of New Orleans head basketball coach Buzz Williams resigned Friday, departing after only one season with the Privateers.

July 8, 2007

1997 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Awards

For the fourth year, black Issues In Higher Education is proud to present our Arthur Ashe Jr. Athlete of the Year to two outstanding students.

July 6, 2007

Title IX: does help for women come at the expense of African Americans?

Gender equity has created an intriguing set of circumstances in the world of college athletics.

July 6, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Moving on up: the allure and the aggravation of becoming a Division I school

Eight year a ago, Dr. William R. Harvey had a vision. The Hampton University president was convinced that with the right approach, the school could hold its own at the highest level of collegiate competition. Now that is is clear that Harvey’s vision was not just a case of wishful thinking, there appears to be another school — Norfolk State University (NSU) — ready to follow his lead.

July 6, 2007

An NCAA tournament de force performance – Coppin State College

It was as shocking as it was improbable. As a result, some are calling Coppin State College’s dramatic win over the University of South Carolina in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Basketball Tournament the single most significant victory in the history of sports at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

July 6, 2007

There is more to life than sports: getting brothers to take the road less traveled

Based on recent statistics released during the Jackie Robinson celebration on “Nightline,” 70 percent of the players in the National Football League are African American, 80 percent in the National Basketball Association, and 19 percent in Major League Baseball. That’s fewer than 1,400 Black men on professional contract.

July 6, 2007