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Section: Sports
Students
Wins for College Athletes in Court Could Cost Fellow Students
High-profile legal cases and NCAA policy changes are likely to boost the cost of fielding big-time athletics programs, and students — even those who never attend a single college basketball or football game — may have to foot the bill.
December 1, 2014
Leadership & Policy
1 Victim of Florida State University Shooting Paralyzed
In the frantic moments at the Florida State University campus library last week, bullets struck 21-year-old student Farhan “Ronny” Ahmed three times, including a shot that severely damaged his spine and left him paralyzed from the waist down, his sister said Monday.
November 24, 2014
Students
Official Says Florida State University Gunman Was Alumnus
A Florida State University alumnus and attorney shot three people at the school’s library early Thursday before being killed by police, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
November 20, 2014
Sports
Bowie State Fires Ex-NFL Player Charles Grant for Body-Slamming Student
Former NFL player Charles Grant has been fired from his position as a volunteer football coach at Bowie State University after a video surfaced showing him throwing a student to the floor.
November 12, 2014
Leadership & Policy
Education Think Tank Head Quits After Flawed Study
A Tulane University institute that studies changes in public education in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina announced the resignation of its executive director Monday, weeks after retracting a study on the city’s public high schools.
November 10, 2014
Sports
NCAA Institute Tackling Mental Health Concerns of Athletes
College athletes suffer from the same mental issues as many other college students, including anxiety, depression, eating disorders and substance abuse.
November 10, 2014
Sports
Former University of North Carolina Football Player Files Lawsuit
Former University of North Carolina football player Michael McAdoo has filed a lawsuit against the school, saying it failed to provide him and other athletes a quality education by guiding them toward sham classes.
November 10, 2014
Sports
What Does It Mean to Not be Black Enough?
So the question comes up, what is Black enough and what are the qualifications?
November 4, 2014
Sports
The Secret Sauce of College Admissions
The truth is that selectivity is often based on how you measure and value it.
October 29, 2014
Sports
NCAA Graduation Rates Improve, Critics Cry Foul
NCAA President Mark Emmert keeps touting the record-breaking graduation rates of Division I athletes. Critics keep balking at the interpretation of those numbers, citing recent academic scandals.
October 28, 2014
Sports
Murray State Deferring Some Applications from Africa
Murray State University in Kentucky is deferring applications from students in West African countries affected by Ebola until the fall of 2015.
October 27, 2014
Students
Wainstein Report on UNC Should Make All Schools Rethink Athletics
It’s time to drop the pretense and separate sports from the schools.
October 26, 2014
Sports
Failures in Oversight Worsened University of North Carolina Academic Fraud
Failures in Oversight Worsened University of North Carolina Academic Fraud.
October 26, 2014
Students
Panel Addresses Sexual Violence at the University of Oregon
A task force studying ways to prevent sexual violence at the University of Oregon has come up with a list of nearly two dozen recommendations, including the creation of a single office dedicated to addressing the problem.
October 23, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Keene State Professors Concerned Student Riots Becoming Accepted as the Norm
Student celebrations associated with Pumpkin Fest, which was originally founded as a family celebration, devolved into an hours-long riot between students and police on Saturday afternoon.
October 22, 2014
Sports
Probe Reveals Scope of Academic Fraud at the University of North Carolina
More than 3,100 students—nearly half of them athletes—enrolled in classes they didn’t have to show up for and received artificially inflated grades in what an investigator called a “shadow curriculum” that lasted nearly two decades at the University of North Carolina.
October 22, 2014
Students
The University of Michigan Reports Undergraduate Enrollment Up
The University of Michigan announced it has 112 more students now than a year ago.
October 20, 2014
Sports
In Case You Missed It…
Conference Brings Black Doctoral Candidates Together to Focus on Path to Success Report Encourages Incentivizing States to Share in Costs of Higher Education Free College Advising to Be Offered to Students from Poor and Middle Class Families The Secret Sauce of College Admissions
October 17, 2014
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