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Study: Schools in Top Bowl Games Have Disparate Graduation Rates For Black, White Players

ORLANDO, Fla. The disparity between graduation rates for White and Black college football players in this season’s five major bowls was nearly twice as large as those for less successful schools, according to a study released Monday.

December 4, 2006

Questions of Conduct

When Jason Johnson, a student at the University of the Cumberlands in the eastern Kentucky hills…

November 29, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Florida State University Launches Seminole History Class In Effort To Keep Mascot

TALLAHASSEE Fla. Florida State University student Daniel Lee learned in fourth grade most of what he knew about the Seminole Indians, namesakes of his school’s athletic teams. It wasn’t much.

November 28, 2006

Million-Dollar NCAA Coaches, Barely Adequate Graduation Rates

A look at some of the nation’s highest paid Division I head college football coaches and how their programs are faring academically.

November 19, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Lonely at the Top?

That a college or university president has a challenging position is a no-brainer…

November 15, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Lonely at the Top?

That a college or university president has a challenging position is a no-brainer…

November 15, 2006

As Michigan Affirmative Action Vote Nears, Campaigns Pick Up

In the final run-up to Tuesday’s mid-term elections, several groups from the college basketball coaches to the police are bombarding voters in Michigan with messages about the impact of the Proposal 2 referendum, which would ban affirmative action in, among other things, college admissions.

November 4, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Thirty-six Years Later, School Honors Players’ Anti-racism Stand

SYRACUSE, N.Y. In 1970, nine Black Syracuse University football players became rebellious outcasts when they quit the team to protest racial injustice.

October 23, 2006

Racial Name -Calling at Diversity Retreat Leads to Firing

The diversity-training consultant called one Wilkes University student of Indian descent a “terrorist”…

October 18, 2006

North Dakota Officials Sue NCAA Over Fighting Sioux Nickname

FARGO, N.D. State officials filed a lawsuit Friday against the NCAA to challenge its restrictions on the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux nickname.

October 7, 2006

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CSTV Launches 100 Broadband Sports Channels

Beginning this fall, CSTV Networks Inc., a division of CBS Corp., is offering live college sports broadcasting…

October 4, 2006

Racial Name-Calling at Diversity Retreat Leads To Firing

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. The diversity training consultant called one Wilkes University student of Indian descent a “terrorist.” He also had student athletes at a diversity retreat call another student “Chink” — as a means of making the derogatory words lose their power.

September 25, 2006

Black Coaches Group: Some Progress In Hiring Practices

INDIANAPOLIS NCAA Division I universities fared better this year in considering minority football coaching candidates, the Black Coaches Association said Thursday.

September 21, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Georgia’s On Our Mind

Music lovers have long counted Ray Charles’ bittersweet rendition of Hoagy Carmichael’s…

September 6, 2006

Leadership & Policy

In Memory of a Friend:Dr. Clinton Bristow Jr., 1949-2006

Some people have to work hard to be leaders. Dr. Clinton Bristow was natural born…

September 6, 2006

A Winning Combination

If Damon Evans operated in the corporate world, he would probably have graced the cover of several magazines by now…

September 6, 2006

Black College Baseball Programs Sliding in Popularity

Major League Baseball was all but dead in the water in the late 1990s. A strike in 1994…

August 23, 2006

Study: NFL Hiring More Black Coaches, But Women Still Lag Behind

ORLANDO Fla. The NFL’s rule that at least one minority candidate be interviewed for each head coaching vacancy is the reason there are now a record seven Black head coaches, six more than 16 years ago, says one of the leading experts on sports diversity.

August 18, 2006