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Leadership & Policy

Soccer Players Suspended for a Match after Blackface Incident

Five members of the women’s soccer team at a private Christian university in Washington state were suspended for one match Wednesday after a social media post surfaced showing them dressed in blackface and afro wigs.

September 3, 2015

Sports

NLRB Deals ‘Minor Blow’ to Advances for College Athletes

The National Labor Relations Board unanimously declined jurisdiction Monday in a case filed by Northwestern University student-athletes seeking to unionize.

August 17, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Setting the Curve

Becker College’s academic, enrollment, fiscal metrics all show marked improvement under leadership of Dr. Robert Johnson.

August 12, 2015

Sports

Six HBCUs Awarded NCAA Academic Support Funds

Historically Black schools receive significant share of more than $4 million awarded to low-resource Division I institutions by the NCAA for helping student-athletes improve academic performance.

July 30, 2015

Students

MILTON OVERTON

MILTON OVERTON has been appointed director of intercollegiate athletics at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. He was senior associate athletics director at the University of Alabama. Overton earned a bachelor’s and two master’s degrees from the University of Oklahoma.

July 28, 2015

Sports

Injured Football Player to Return to Towson University

Towson University must allow a football player to return to the team after a successful liver transplant and an “amazing recovery,” a federal judge in Maryland has ruled.

July 26, 2015

Students

South Carolina’s Action on Flag Leads NCAA to Lift Ban

As a result of the South Carolina’s decision to remove the Confederate battle flag from its capitol grounds, the NCAA is ending a nearly 15-year ban on the state playing host to sanctioned championship events.

July 9, 2015

Sports

When Asian Americans Hear Hate Crime, We Think of Vincent Chin

The anniversary of his beating death in 1982 coincides with the mourning in Charleston.

June 21, 2015

Sports

HBCUs to Seek Delay on NCAA Requirement

Fourteen of 21 Division I athletic teams facing postseason competition bans this coming school year are based at historically Black colleges and universities.

June 18, 2015

Sports

Go to College? LeBron Didn’t, But Everyone Else Should

On choosing the “fellowship of educated men and women” before prematurely choosing the “Association.”

June 14, 2015

Faculty & Staff

CLIFTON SANDERS

CLIFTON SANDERS has been appointed provost of academic affairs at Salt Lake Community College. Sanders was most recently interim provost of academic affairs at Salt Lake Community College. He earned a bachelor’s from Hamline University and a doctorate from The University of Utah.

June 5, 2015

Sports

NCAA Hits UNC with 5 Violations in Wake of Academic Scandal

North Carolina’s long-running academic fraud scandal now includes five NCAA charges, including a lack of institutional control for poor oversight of an academic department popular with athletes and the counselors who advised them.

June 4, 2015