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Schools Work to Focus Incoming College Students

Recent studies by Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research found that an estimated 20 percent of graduating seniors from urban school districts abandon their plans to attend college over the summer.

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Community College Athletics No Longer Warm-up Acts for Bigger Stage

A robust world of sports-driven enthusiasm can be found on the campuses of junior colleges across the country.

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Indiana University to Offer Multiyear Scholarships

Indiana plans to immediately begin guaranteeing four-year scholarships to athletes and will agree not to reduce the amount of money students on partial scholarship receive year to year based on illness.

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Leadership & Policy

DA Mulls Dropping Ex-UNC Professor’s Fraud Charge

Julius Nyang’oro is embroiled in a scandal involving academics and athletics.

College Athletic Recruiting: Next Promise Could Be a Paycheck

Recruiters pursuing the best high school football and basketball players might someday offer a nice paycheck to take with them when their college days are over.

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Leadership & Policy

Course Correction Uncertain for Increasing Black Enrollment in Higher Ed

While HBCUs look to build a direct pipeline for Black high school students, mounting challenges continue to serve as a roadblock, said a veteran educator.

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NCAA President: Paying Athletes Could Destroy College Sports

NCAA President Mark Emmert testified that any effort to pay players would destroy a framework that has been in place for more than a century and cause many schools to either abandon sports or refuse to play other schools that do pay.

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China Says 127 Students Hired Others to Take Exam

At least 127 test-takers in a Chinese province hired other people to take the country’s all-important college entrance exam on their behalf, the provincial college admission office said.

NCAA Begins Making Its Case for Amateurism

The women’s athletic director at the University of Texas testified Tuesday that paying basketball and football players would tear apart the very foundation the school’s athletics are based upon.

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NCAA Athletes Could Make Big Money Under Plan

University of San Francisco economist Daniel Rascher based his testimony at the NCAA antitrust trial on the 55 percent of broadcast revenue the NFL shares with its players.

Former TV Exec: Paying College Athletes Could Harm Sports

Neal Pilson testified that fans enjoy the concept of young people playing college sports for the love of the game.

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