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Leadership & Policy

Big East Grants Show Commitment to Diversity In Athletics Administrators Ranks

The need is there. Just a quarter of the women and minority collegiate athletics staff seeking the Big East Professional Development Grant for Women and Ethnic Minorities received funding this year. Now, advocates hope the program, which they say demonstrates a commitment to diversity, can set an example that other Division I conferences will follow.

November 7, 2007

UND Official Wanted More Time to State Nickname Opposition

GRAND FORKS, N.D. The leader of American Indian Student Services at the University of North Dakota says staff members were not given enough time to detail their opposition to the school’s “Fighting Sioux” nickname when a Sioux tribal delegation came to visit.

November 6, 2007

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Sioux Tribal Members Visiting UND Campus

GRAND FORKS N.D. Some of the Standing Rock Sioux tribal members who visited the University of North Dakota campus this week believe UND efforts to win support for its “Fighting Sioux” nickname might be harmful.

November 6, 2007

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UMaine Player Suspended After Allegation of Sexual Touching

ORONO Maine A University of Maine hockey player has been suspended following an incident in which he was accused of grabbing a woman’s breast.

November 6, 2007

UND Nickname Lawsuit Fund Exhausted

GRAND FORKS N.D. A fund set up to pay legal bills in the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux nickname lawsuit against the NCAA has been exhausted.

November 4, 2007

Leadership & Policy

DSU President Wants State Funds for Athletic Facility

DOVER, Del. Delaware State University President Allen Sessoms says the school can’t wait another 35 years for a civic center in Dover.

November 1, 2007

Talladega College Names New President

TALLADEGA, Ala. Dr. Billy Hawkins, president of Texas College in Tyler, Texas, has been named president of Talladega College with plans to bolster enrollment and possibly restart the athletics program.

November 1, 2007

Prairie View on Verge of First Winning Season Since 1976

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas Get ready for another shocker that fits right into this crazy year in college football: Prairie View A&M is on the verge of a winning season.

November 1, 2007

Student Graduation Rate at the University of Arizona Falls Lower

TUCSON Ariz. A new report shows 63 percent of the University of Arizona student-athletes who enrolled in the 2000-01 school year graduated within six years.

October 30, 2007

Ex-Duquesne Student Pleads Guilty in Basketball Player Shooting Case

PITTSBURGH A former Duquesne University student pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that she helped her armed friends get into a school dance the night five basketball players were shot and wounded.

October 30, 2007

Assistant Coach at Center of Indiana U. Recruit Calls Case Resigns

INDIANAPOLIS Indiana assistant Rob Senderoff, the focus of an investigation into improper telephone calls to recruits that already has cost the Hoosiers one basketball scholarship and coach Kelvin Sampson a $500,000 pay raise, resigned Tuesday.

October 30, 2007

Khayat Says Naming UM Successor Key Part of his Final Years

TUPELO Miss. University of Mississippi Chancellor Robert Khayat said he hopes to use the remaining three years of his contract to help find and orient a successor.

October 29, 2007

Arkansas State U Drops Indian Nickname

JONESBORO Ark. Now that it is dropping the nickname Indians, Arkansas State is free from some NCAA restrictions.

October 29, 2007

University of Illinois Allows Chief Illiniwek Images in Homecoming Parade

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Chief Illiniwek may be gone, but images depicting the controversial University of Illinois mascot will stick around at least during homecoming.

October 28, 2007

Duquesne Basketball Shooter Gets Up to 40 Years

PITTSBURGH The gunman who wounded five Duquesne University basketball players after a school dance last year pleaded guilty Friday and will spend up to 40 years in prison.

October 25, 2007

University of North Dakota Needs Tribal Approval to Keep Sioux Nickname

GRAND FORKS, N.D. The state Board of Higher Education settled a lawsuit with the NCAA over the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux nickname, giving the school three years to get tribal approval to keep it.

October 25, 2007

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Division II Chowan moving to Historically Black CIAA

MURFREESBORO, N.C. When tiny Chowan University moved up to Division II a few years ago, it knew it needed the stability that comes with joining a conference.

October 25, 2007

Report: Judge Was in 1960s Student Group With Cartoon Mascot

GRAND FORKS, N.D. The judge hearing arguments in a lawsuit over the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux nickname belonged to a student group in the 1960s whose members wore a cartoon American Indian mascot on their jackets, The Forum reports in a copyright story.

October 23, 2007