Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.
Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.
Subscribe
Students
Faculty & Staff
Leadership & Policy
Podcasts
Top 100
Advertise
Jobs
Shop
Search
Article
Podcast
Video
Awards/Honors
Community Colleges
Demographics
Faculty & Staff
Health
Institutions
Leadership & Policy
Military
On the Move
Opinion
Sports
Students
Enter search phrase
Search
Section: Sports
Sports
Leaders Urge Colleges to Expand Sports Programs for Students With Disabilities
Jaunelle White, the director of compliance for athletics at Texas Southern University, says little has been done in the way of work toward adapting programs to accommodate students with disabilities.
April 16, 2013
Students
Clemson President Barker to Return to Teaching
Clemson President Jim Barker is going back to being an architecture professor after 14 years leading the school.
April 16, 2013
Students
Clemson Students Find Bacteria Risk in Beer Pong
The most dangerous part of playing beer pong might not be drinking too much beer.
April 15, 2013
Students
Fewer African-Americans Playing Baseball at HBCUs Due to Economics, Opportunities
A 2012 article in the Raleigh News & Observer noted White players made up a majority of the baseball players in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.
April 15, 2013
Students
Criminal Justice Students Experience House Arrest
A classroom debate over just how tough house arrest is has prompted a criminal justice professor at a central Illinois college to come up with what is a punishing assignment.
April 14, 2013
Sports
Leaders in HBCU Community Have Long Debated Institutional Role of Student-Athlete
Following Jesse Owens’ spectacular record-breaking four-gold-medal performance at the 1936 Olympics and Joe Louis’s capture of the heavyweight boxing title in 1937, a number of African-American coaches and journalists argued that African-American colleges should increase their financial support of athletics in hopes of producing more athletes who demonstrated the ability of the race.
April 14, 2013
Sports
Rutgers Moves to Address Coaching Scandal Fallout
Rutgers University took steps Thursday to publicly address the fallout from the scandal over its men’s basketball coach, announcing an expected independent review and hiring a respected former state attorney general as the new top lawyer for the school.
April 11, 2013
Faculty & Staff
Blind Illinois State Professor Teaches Chemistry
Cary Supalo, who lost his sight at age 7 as the result of a rare genetic condition called FEVR, says he believes “in a can-do attitude.”
April 11, 2013
Students
Special Report: Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars 2013
Diverse honors the memory of Arthur Ashe Jr. by recognizing the achievements of student-athletes who are charge ahead with academics and athletics.
April 11, 2013
Sports
Rejection Can Be a Good Thing in the Long Run
One of the recurring stories heard this time year is about the disappointment someone feels because he or she did not get into the college of choice. All is not lost.
April 10, 2013
Students
Asking Tough Questions: College and LGBT Applicant Identification
This year, however, students may find a new topic area not only on their questionnaires, but also on their initial applications: sexual orientation.
April 9, 2013
Faculty & Staff
NCAA Tournament Important to Recruiting — But Not Likely to Rutgers
Anyone want to go to a school that now has a history of homophobia as well as physical abuse of students? Oh, and besides that, the team doesn’t win basketball games.
April 8, 2013
Faculty & Staff
Rutgers Commissioning Review of Basketball Scandal
Rutgers University announced Monday that it’s commissioning an independent review of the conduct of fired basketball coach Mike Rice and the way the university handled the situation when it learned that he was kicking and shoving players and berating them with gay slurs in practice.
April 8, 2013
Sports
Whistleblower Sues Rutgers in Abusive Coach Case
A former Rutgers University employee who made public the video that led to the basketball coach’s dismissal and athletic director’s resignation has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the university.
April 7, 2013
Students
Asking Tough Questions: College and LGBT Applicant Identification
This year, however, students may find a new topic area not only on their questionnaires, but also on their initial applications: sexual orientation.
April 7, 2013
Students
More Rutgers Faculty Seek Firings of Administrators in Coach Case
The call from faculty members to oust top Rutgers University administrators grew louder Thursday, a day after men’s basketball coach Mike Rice was fired for mistreating players.
April 4, 2013
Sports
Rutgers’ Video Tells Only Part of College Athletics Story
Rutgers University, which fired men’s basketball coach Mike Rice, probably figures we should all just move along now, there’s nothing more to see here.Except there is. Let’s see some real accountability.
April 3, 2013
Students
All About Diversity
“Celebrate Diversity Month” was proposed in 2004, when two diversity companies, ProGroup, Inc. and Diversity Best Practices, created a proclamation for the observance. It is now widely observed in April.
April 3, 2013
Previous Page
Next Page
