Tag: Athletics: Page 20

Students

Bad Behavior on Social Media Can Cost Recruits

At St. Paul’s Episcopal School in Mobile, Alabama, the high school that produced Crimson Tide quarterbacks AJ McCarron and Jake Coker, there’s a new preseason ritual for football players: the social media talk.

August 11, 2014

Students

Vote Would Let Wealthiest College Football Conferences Set Their Own Rules

The NCAA board of directors will vote Thursday on a proposal that would give the five wealthiest college football conferences the ability to make rules and pass legislation without the approval of the rest of Division I schools.

August 6, 2014

Students

Vote Would Let Wealthiest College Football Conferences Set Their Own Rules

The NCAA board of directors will vote Thursday on a proposal that would give the five wealthiest college football conferences the ability to make rules and pass legislation without the approval of the rest of Division I schools.

August 6, 2014

Sports

William Carey University New Degree: Specialist in Education

William Carey University is offering a new online degree for administrators and teachers who want to help other teachers improve their classroom instruction.

July 28, 2014

Sports

Penn State Hires Former Cal-Berkeley Athletic Director to Lead Program

Penn State hired Sandy Barbour as athletic director, a month after she stepped down as AD at the University of California-Berkeley.

July 27, 2014

Students

University of Connecticut’s AD Sees Need for Student-Athlete Stipends

Athletic director Warde Manuel says he opposes the idea of unions for college athletes, yet sees the need to provide students on athletic scholarships with additional money.

July 16, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Former Pro Football Player Shifts into Role of Scholar

Dr. Pellom McDaniels describes himself as a conundrum in the world of higher education.

July 8, 2014

Leadership & Policy

DA Mulls Dropping Ex-UNC Professor’s Fraud Charge

Julius Nyang’oro is embroiled in a scandal involving academics and athletics.

June 24, 2014

Sports

College Athletic Recruiting: Next Promise Could Be a Paycheck

Recruiters pursuing the best high school football and basketball players might someday offer a nice paycheck to take with them when their college days are over.

June 22, 2014

Sports

NCAA President: Paying Athletes Could Destroy College Sports

NCAA President Mark Emmert testified that any effort to pay players would destroy a framework that has been in place for more than a century and cause many schools to either abandon sports or refuse to play other schools that do pay.

June 19, 2014

Students

NCAA Begins Making Its Case for Amateurism

The women’s athletic director at the University of Texas testified Tuesday that paying basketball and football players would tear apart the very foundation the school’s athletics are based upon.

June 17, 2014

Sports

Prothro Goes From ‘The Catch’ to the Courtroom

Football player testifies about facing the 10th surgery on the left leg he had broken and being told that his college benefits were about to run out.

June 11, 2014