Tag: Student Athletes: Page 65

Sports

CU Sees Rise In Reports Of Staph Infections

BOULDER Colo. The University of Colorado is pulling some equipment from the recreation center following a rise in staph infections among students.

October 23, 2007

Sports

Just the Stats: HBCU Football Student-Athlete Graduation Rates

Diverse continues its analysis of student-athlete graduation rates, this time focusing on Division I and II football programs at historically Black colleges and universities.

October 17, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Summit: Faculty Challenged to Get Off Athletic Sidelines and Get Involved

Washington, D.C. In response to the recently released Knight Foundation survey showing that higher education faculty care little about college athletics, a group of nationally recognized experts meeting here urged them to rethink their attitudes and lack of involvement.

October 14, 2007

Sports

Finally, Shootings Becoming a Distant Memory at Duquesne

PITTSBURGH Duquesne University’s basketball team took the court Friday night without hearing the two words that have dominated any discussion about the Dukes for 13 months.

October 14, 2007

Sports

Former Duke Lacrosse Coach Files Lawsuit Against Former Employer

CHAPEL HILL N.C. The former Duke University men’s lacrosse coach who resigned last year amid allegations that three of his players raped a stripper has sued the university.

October 14, 2007

Sports

Just the Stats: Graduating Minority Student Football Athletes

What college athletic teams enroll high numbers of minority athletes and graduate them in six years? Over the next few weeks, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education will present graduation rate data, highlighting the successes or failures of major Division I sports teams, starting with football.

October 3, 2007

Students

Professional Appointments

Kevin Gover, a professor of law and affiliate professor of the American Indian studies program at Arizona State University, has been named director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a law degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Eric […]

October 2, 2007

Sports

Rutgers Professor’s Comments About Minority Student-Athletes Called Racist

TRENTON, N.J A longtime critic of Rutgers University’s drive into big-time sports is being criticized over a newspaper article comment that university officials have branded as racist.

September 29, 2007

Sports

Southern Utah hires assistant basketball coach

CEDAR CITY Utah Southern Utah University has hired a New Mexico Junior College assistant coach to join its men’s basketball coaching staff.

September 24, 2007

Sports

Dover police: suspect in custody in Delaware State University shooting

An 18-year-old man who grew up in an upper middle class neighborhood in East Orange, N.J. was charged Monday in the shooting of two Delaware State University students.

September 23, 2007

Students

Iowa universities market, benefit from school credit cards

DES MOINES Iowa Iowa’s two biggest public universities are helping to market credit cards to their students, an arrangement that generates millions of dollars for the schools’ alumni organizations.

September 22, 2007

Sports

20-year-old gets life for killing USC basketball player

BATON ROUGE La. The man convicted of killing a University of Southern California basketball player has been formally sentenced to life in prison, the only sentence possible for second-degree murder.

September 19, 2007