Tag: Student Athletes: Page 35

Sports

Review: University of North Carolina Athlete Literacy Findings Flawed

UNC hired Georgia State, Minnesota and Virginia professors to review Mary Willingham’s findings.

April 13, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Morgan State Seeks to Make History in National HBCU Quiz Bowl Competition

The 25th anniversary year of the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge culminates this week with the national championship tournament at which Morgan State University seeks a third consecutive national title.

April 13, 2014

Sports

Northwestern University Appeals NLRB Ruling on Athletes

Northwestern University is asking the National Labor Relations Board to overturn a regional director’s ruling that the school’s football players are employees under federal law and thus entitled to unionize.

April 9, 2014

Sports

University of Massachusetts Basketball Player Announces He’s Gay

University of Massachusetts guard Derrick Gordon has become the first openly gay player in Division I men’s basketball.

April 9, 2014

Students

Rutgers Athletic Director Hermann Bashes Newspaper

Rutgers University’s athletic director told a class earlier this year that it would be “great” if New Jersey’s largest newspaper went out of business.

April 7, 2014

Faculty & Staff

U.S. Presidents Gather to Commemorate 50th Anniversary of Civil Rights Act

President Barack Obama, along with all of the living U.S. presidents, will gather at a three-day summit to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act.

April 7, 2014

Sports

College Athletes Take Labor Cause to Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON ― Members of a group seeking to unionize college athletes are looking for allies on Capitol Hill as they brace for an appeal of a ruling that said full scholarship athletes at Northwestern University are employees who have the right to form a union.

April 2, 2014

Students

NY Student Accepted at All 8 Ivy League Schools

A 17-year-old Long Island student has applied to and was accepted at all eight Ivy League schools.

April 1, 2014

Students

If Student Athletes Are Allowed to Unionize, Will It Change How Colleges View All Their Students?

With the NCAA making a profit of more than one billion dollars a year, I’ve got nothing against the unionization of student-athletes.

March 31, 2014

Students

Union Ruling Comes at Bad Time for NCAA

They’re battling in courtrooms, and could one day meet over a bargaining table. About the only things the two sides in the debate over big-time college athletics agree on is that things are changing.

March 27, 2014

Sports

M. Grace Calhoun Named Penn Athletic Director

Penn provost Vincent Price, who chaired the search committee, on Monday called Calhoun “a national leader in intercollegiate athletics.”

March 25, 2014

Students

Univ. of Baltimore Paying Students to Graduate on Time

Under a new program, Finish4Free, the first of its kind in the country, the University of Baltimore will pay for incoming freshmen’s final semester tuition.

March 25, 2014