Academics
 ACADEMICS    Success in academics and athletics   Elite academic schools thrive in the classroom and on the field.   ESPN.com, 5-15-13
 
 ACADEMICS    Coaching, Off the Field   It’s been a year that Jim Tressel has been VP for strategic engagement at the University of Akron, and things are going well.  Inside Higher Ed, 5-14-13
 
 NCAA    Flip-Flop or Fair Play?   The NCAA voted not to raise minimum scores for athletic eligibility, which could could keep up to one in four men’s basketball players from being benched.   Inside Higher Ed, 5-10-13
 
 ACADEMICS    Black Males, Athletes and Academic Achievement   Clips Guest Commentary   The authors call for better support for African American basketball student-athletes in academic pursuits and in attaining college degrees.   Isiah Thomas and Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Huffington Post, 5-7-13
 
 ACADEMICS    In life, college is way better than no college   Here’s the umpteenth plus one reminder that college grads do better than non-college grads.   New York Times, 5-3-13
 
April 2013
 ACADEMICS    All Wonderlic Scores Should Be Public   From the article: “Virtually every major program is cheating its ass off to keep players who have no business in college eligible to play football and basketball.”   Outkick the Coverage, 4-18-13
 
 REFORM    An Open Letter to Division I College Presidents and Governing Boards: Fix Skewed Incentives in Your Sports Programs   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest authors spotlight their concern over the extreme imbalance between the athletic and the academic at many colleges and universities. By Arne Duncan and C. Thomas McMillen
 
March 2013
 ACADEMICS    Impact of academic standard changes   Changes to initial eligibility standards are being compared the to the shockwave that accompanied Prop 48 thirty years ago.   ESPN.com, 3-27-13
 
 ACADEMICS    Study: elite colleges failing to attract high-achieving, low-income students   When high-achieving, low-income students make it to top colleges, they thrive.   NY Times, 3-17-13
 
February 2013
 ACADEMICS    Capital One Academic All-America D1-2-3-NAIA Basketball Teams   Here they are, the best roundball student-athletes.   Capital One, 2-18-13
 
 ACADEMICS    Student Athletics as a Moral Endeavor   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author posits that student-athletes and universities make promises to each other, making the education of student-athletes a moral endeavor flowing from those promises.   J. Patrick Dobel, Point of the Game, 2-16-13
 
 ACADEMICS    NCAA Reform Gone Wrong    Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest authors argue that NCAA academic reforms are lagging.   By Gerald Gurney and Richard Southall, Inside Higher Ed, 2-14-13
 
January 2013
 ACADEMICS    Lessons from the NFL for Managing College Enrollment   American higher education would be more inclusive and results driven if universities formed a league to establish rules of competition and progress.  americanprogress.org, 1-30-13
 
 ELIGIBILITY    Helping Athletes Make the Grade   A better job needs to be done to inform high school students about the NCAA’s heightened academic standards for initial eligibility.   Inside Higher Ed, 1-23-13
 
 ACADEMICS    The New Country on Campus    Here's a look at China’s rising educational standards.   New York Times, 1-17-13
 
 ACADEMICS    MBK/WBK AGG Report from CSRI   (We love acronyms.) AGG is Adjusted Graduation Gap and CSRI is the College Sport Research Institute at UNC.   CSRI, 1-10-13
 
December 2012
 ACADEMICS    Committed to the APR   San Jose State rebounds in the classroom — and on the field.   NCAA.com, 12-25-12
 
 HAVE-NOTS   Low income students crash landing in college   Clips eFlash   A lengthy front-page article in the Sunday New York Times examines the formidable obstacles that plague low income students in pursuit of a higher education degree.   New York Times, 12-24-12
 
 ACADEMICS    Stop Mocking the Gym Majors   Once the butt of jokes, college athletes who study kinesiology are landing plum jobs.   Wall Street Journal, 12-19-12
 
November 2012
 ACADEMICS    End the Charade: Let Athletes Major in Sports   Here’s another article—not a rant—on handling student-athlete academics in a different manner.   Chronicle of Higher Education, 11-26-12
 
 ACADEMICS    Notre Dame Scores a First: No. 1 in Football and in Graduating Its Players   Bravo Irish.   Brad Wolverton, Chronicle of Higher Education, 11-20-12
 
 ACADEMICS    Athletes who seek quick credits go to Western Oklahoma   Is Western Oklahoma State College the solution for ineligible players?  Chronicle of Higher Education, 11-13-12
 
 ACADEMICS    Golden Day for the Golden State?   The tax-raising Prop 30 has been approved in California, avoiding $838 million in cuts this year alone to California State, U-Cal and community college systems.    Inside Higher Ed, 11-8-12
 
October 2012
ACADEMICS    Men's basketball, D1-A football grad rates highest ever   In men’s basketball, the latest GSR has climbed to 74%, up 6 points from last year. In D1-A football, the GSR has hit 70%, up 1 point.  NCAA.org, 10-24-12
 
 ELIGIBILITY    Could D2’s Academic Ideas Work in D1?    Clips Guest Commentary   NCAA’s D1 has a big change coming to initial eligibility in 2016. But in D2, the focus is on both initial eligibility for freshmen and progress-toward-degree rules.   John Infante, Bylaw Blog, 10-19-12
 
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