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Sports in the Board Room
Governing boards should be more involved in athletics oversight, for financial, ethical and academic reasons, a new report argues.
A New Playbook
Admissions directors at public flagship universities seek to define best practices for the potentially problematic area of admissions exceptions for athletics.
Physical Elimination
In dropping phys ed requirements, University of Chicago becomes latest institution to cut fitness and swim tests, the latter of which was required for graduation.
High-Stakes Test You Can't Prep For
More colleges are getting on board with random drug testing of athletes, while others that already did it are testing more often.
Gaps in Grad Rates for Athletes
An alternative method of measuring athletes' graduation rates shows football players lag behind their full-time, non-athlete peers in most conferences, with black athletes in many cases faring especially poorly.
The Achilles Heel
UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor, once touted as a potential long-serving campus leader, resigns after two years of athletics, academic and administrative scandals.
Notre Dame Finally Moves -- to ACC
After being courted for years, the independent University of Notre Dame will join the Atlantic Coast Conference, potentially calming the realignment frenzy.
The NCAA's Limited Reach
Its jurisdiction in addressing academic integrity issues such as the no-show courses at UNC is limited, faculty and experts say -- putting the onus on the university to fix the problems.