Sports Texas and Oklahoma: Please, please go to the SEC 21 Jul 2021 I read today -- with obvious enthusiasm based on that headline you just read -- a report indicating the universities of Texas and Oklahoma are eager to join the Southeastern…
News It’s time to remake the university athletics department 13 Jul 202013 Jul 2020 The athletics department — during good times, a blight on the university in the minds of many people within higher education — is under intense scrutiny in the coronavirus era.…
News The competing messages from collegiate athletic departments ever clearer 9 Jul 20209 Jul 2020 In another blow to plans to get college sports fully up and running this fall, two more prominent universities have announced that student-athlete workouts have been suspended because of coronavirus.…
Sports Collegiate sports for the benefit of the student-athlete and collegiate sports for the lust for money: The divide has never been clearer 27 Jun 202015 Apr 2021 Two headlines on Friday told a far deeper story than the mere words that were written. One story reported that Morehouse College was canceling its two fall sports — football…
News Higher education’s priorities for fall 19 May 202019 May 2020 The spring semester has ended. A summer of, well, we’re not sure of what, awaits. There’s only one certainty over the next few months for those of us fortunate to…
Sports Time for college coaches to accept big pay cuts? 14 May 202015 Apr 2021 The Guardian asks whether America’s well-paid collegiate sports coaches need to surrender significant portions of their salaries because of the coronavirus pandemic. The current questioning of coaches’ financial value may…
News University of Akron to close 6 of 11 schools 4 May 2020 The Akron Beacon-Journal reports the president of the University of Akron is defending the cuts based on a predicted $70-million deficit. That number takes into account both “real and anticipated”…
News Brown president: Make students partners in getting our colleges reopened 26 Apr 2020 Christina Paxson is the president of Brown University. In today's New York Times, she offers a sober, serious but cautiously optimistic evaluation of how U.S. colleges and universities can reopen…
News Major cuts, including to athletics, coming to the University of Akron and other institutions 24 Apr 202024 Apr 2020 The photo above was taken outside my sister-in-law's house after a powerful storm ripped through her street a few years ago. The photo applies to what's happening at America's colleges…
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