Jean Boyd, who heads up the student-athlete development center at Arizona State, wrote an article addressing the claim that all academic support offices do (or should do) is keep athletes eligible. Boyd lays out the approach that academic support offices should take to go beyond simply maintaining eligibility: Orient athletes to the university and quickly […]
Using money left over from the White Case settlement, the NCAA has awarded grants of up to $900,000 to six schools, for a total of almost $4.3 million. The money is awarded over three years, up to $300,000 per year. Institutions must match the money, from 25% in the first year to 75% in the […]
The Illinois High School Association has ruled the four Sudanese athletes who came to Mooseheart High School eligible, but has placed the school on probation and ruled it ineligible for this years IHSA basketball tournament unless it makes changes to its admissions procedures. The sternest words in the IHSA’s ruling were reserved for the A-HOPE […]
The NCAA’s Scholarly Colloquium is in danger of being defunded by the Association. That alone would not be noteworthy except for the possible reason: that the NCAA disagrees with what is being presented at the conference. On November 7, David K. Wiggins, a professor at George Mason University and chair of the colloquium’s Executive Board, […]
A-HOPE, the charitable organization which was wrapped up in the NCAA violation that result in the suspension of two Indiana basketball players is involved in another allegation of violations. But this time the allegations are at the high school level: The administrators at Mooseheart, a small, privately funded school 35 miles west of Chicago, say […]
Brad Wolverton of the Chronicle of Higher Education got an in-depth look at the changes Ohio State has made in compliance (subscription req’d) since being hit with a postseason ban for the extra benefits/tattoos scandal last year. The office is now a 14-member monster with a $1.1 million annual budget. Two specific actions taken by […]
Proposal 2011-94 receive most of its attention because of the changes it made to the basic initial eligibility requirements. But included in that proposal was a change to the standards for early academic qualifiers. Early qualifiers are prospects who can be certified after their junior year. The changes look like this: Current standard: 3.000 GPA […]
A newly released NCAA interpretation prohibits nonqualifiers from not just practicing or competing with the college team, but with any outside team, including a national team: The committee confirmed that a nonqualifier is not permitted to practice or compete on an outside team, including a national team, during the academic year of residence, which includes […]
The members of Michigan’s Advisory Board on Intercollegiate Athletics have voiced their frustration about not being consulted on major athletic department matters, including conference expansion: Professors at the meeting alleged that the Athletic Department did not consult the ABIA on the addition of the Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten Conference. “I happen to […]
When the powers-that-be who are reshaping football’s postseason decided to set aside some of the football postseason money for academic performance, it was widely hailed as at least a good start. More details are starting to come out, and the total amount of money, a little over $37 million is a small percentage of the […]