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Atlantic Coast Conference Leads In Number of Black Head Basketball Coaches

Black college basketball players make up approximately 70 percent of the rosters of the top teams. While the percentage of Black head basketball coaches is nowhere near that level, the Atlantic Coast Conference is making strides in promoting African Americans to top coaching positions.

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.

Questions of Conduct

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

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.

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.

Leadership & Policy

Lonely at the Top?

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

Leadership & Policy

Lonely at the Top?

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

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.

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.

Racial Name -Calling at Diversity Retreat Leads to Firing

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

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.

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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…

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