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This is in contrast with the allegation by Mary Willingham, based on her personal investigations, that 60% of college athletes were not "college literate". [39] In another of her analyses, she found that 150 to 200 of 400 student-athletes were "underperforming", some "badly underperforming", with the last group being mostly made of men's and ...
Kim Jones, a former collegiate tennis star and co-founder of ICONS, appeared on "Fox & Friends" to talk about loopholes in the NCAA's new trans-athlete policy.
The first academic support center for athletes was founded at the University of Iowa State and this was a major problem because top athletes were ill-prepared for college. Academic fraud began to come into the picture after the realization that a large percentage of student-athletes were not academically fit to perform.
Healthcare reform advocacy groups in the United States are non-profit organizations in the US who have as one of their primary goals healthcare reform in the United States. These notable organizations address issues such as universal healthcare , national health insurance , and single-payer healthcare .
A settlement being discussed in an antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA and major college conferences could cost billions and pave the way for a compensation model for college athletes.. An ...
“There’s no one to put the brakes on them,” says Joel Maxcy, a Drexel University economist who studies college sports. “There’s no one to say, ‘No, this is not a sound investment.’” A Hail Mary. Georgia State, a commuter college located in a largely vacant stretch of downtown Atlanta, had long resisted a move into big-time ...
Colleges and universities are having a difficult time hiring, recruiting and retaining members of their athletic training staffs because of a number of below-market conditions, a survey shows. The ...
In his book Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting College Athletes [26] Byers turned against the NCAA. [26] He said it developed the term "student-athlete" in order to insulate the colleges from having to provide long-term disability payments to players injured while playing their sport (and making money for their university and the NCAA). [26]