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Sports

Oklahoma State projects affected by donor’s losses

Oklahoma State University officials cheered when oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens gave a record-setting gift of $165 million to his alma mater two years ago for athletic programs and then invested it in his BP Capital hedge fund so that it would grow even more. But now the fund has dropped so low amid the […]

October 23, 2008

Sports

A Love of Sports and of Leading the Way

University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Kelly Mehrtens is part of a small but growing club of women athletic directors at Division I schools.

October 1, 2008

Sports

S.C. State and Clemson U. Play Historic Football Game

When the final whistle blew, the scoreboard in Death Valley read Clemson 54, South Carolina State 0, but on this Saturday in late September, there was more than a football game being played.

September 29, 2008

Leadership & Policy

New Study: Men’s Football, Basketball Programs Limit Other Men’s Sports, Not Title IX

Another men’s college wrestling program is discontinued and familiar accusations fly: it’s the fault of Title IX and money being spent on women’s sports. Time and again critics point to Title IX as the reason for cuts in men’s sports.

September 25, 2008

Sports

No Athletic Dept at Vandy, But Much Success

As president of Vanderbilt University and four other prominent schools before that, Gordon Gee perceived an unhappy trend: Student-athletes were drifting away from the core of university life. They lived, ate and studied in a jock bubble.

September 7, 2008

Sports

NCAA Penalizes New Mexico for Football Violations

The NCAA put New Mexico’s football program on three years of probation Wednesday and cut five scholarships as punishment for academic violations involving two former assistant coaches.

August 21, 2008

Sports

Rodriguez agrees to settle, pay WVU $4 million

Former West Virginia football coach Rich Rodriguez agreed to pay a $4 million buyout clause and settle a lawsuit that the university filed after he broke his contract in December.

July 8, 2008

Sports

CORRELATING DIVERSITY SUCCESS WITH ACADEMIC SUCCESS

Texas A&M, NCAA partnership recognizes universities that best champion diversity.

May 28, 2008

Sports

Florida Sate Puts Its Teams on Probation

TALLAHASSEE Fla. Florida State’s sports teams will be on self-imposed probation for two years and some will lose scholarships because of an academic cheating scandal, the university said in a report released Thursday. About 60 student-athletes also have or will suffer some loss of eligibility. Two staffers, a tutor and learning specialist, already had been […]

February 13, 2008

Sports

New Policy In Effect to Increase Number of Minority Head College Football Coaches

A new minority-interviewing rule, similar to the “Rooney Rule” currently used in the National Football League, is being implemented at all Division I-A football programs, in hopes of boosting the number of minority head coaches.

February 10, 2008

Faculty & Staff

State Board Names Kelley to Replace Kupchella as University of North Dakota President

FARGO, N.D. — Dr. Robert Kelley has been offered the job as president of the University of North Dakota, after some school supporters complained that the state Board of Higher Education should have interviewed more than one candidate.

February 4, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Vice Chancellor OK’d to Take Top Post at Fayetteville Campus

LITTLE ROCK  The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees voted unanimously Friday to name G. David Gearhart as the Fayetteville campus’ next chancellor. The 10-member board approved Gearhart, 55, after meeting in executive session for about 40 minutes. “I pledge I will do all I can to provide an administration that has a combination of […]

January 27, 2008