The Moscow-Pullman Daily News’ editorial board rightly called the university’s reliance on tuition dollars a “monumental pyramid scheme.” A year After Washington State University decided to spend hundreds of millions on a medical school for the sole purpose of competing with the UW Medical S[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Athletic Department’
June 14th, 2016 - 8:25 am § in Misc.
Does WSU have an extra billion dollars to pay for its medical school?
October 23rd, 2014 - 7:52 am § in Schools & Colleges
Univ. of North Carolina Credited Athletes For Fake Classes
A simmering academic cheating scandal exploded over the University of North Carolina like a nuclear bomb airburst when it was revealed this morning that athletes were systematically steered into fake classes by athletic department advisers to maintain their sports eligibility. Over a period of 18 ye[...]
September 27th, 2012 - 3:46 pm § in Misc., Schools & Colleges
College Athletics … Wealthy Private, Rockefeller Univeristy Competes Toe to Toe With Big Time NCAA Conference School
Down a goal to No. 2/3 Minnesota (13-2-0, 8-2-0 WCHA) with 2:22 to play in the third period, the No. 9/9 Rockefeller women’s hockey team, The Ladies, (5-3-0, 5-2-0 ECAC) earned a power play opportunity after a checking call landed the Gophers’ senior defenseman Anne Schleper in the pena[...]
August 21st, 2011 - 7:51 am § in Misc.
The Business of College Athletics
Former Kentucky and current Texas Tech coach Billy Gillispie allegedly had an investment valued at $2.3 million excerpts from Sports Illustrated: More than a dozen current and former college coaches — including Texas Tech’s Billy Gillispie, Arizona’s Lute Olson, Baylor’s Scot[...]
February 28th, 2011 - 3:03 pm § in Misc.
If College Athletics “make money” than why do they also need to beg?
After Flurry of Fund Raising, Cal Will Keep 3 Sports February 11, 2011, 2:33 pm from the Chronicle of Higher Education Libby Sander Nearly five months after announcing that it would cut five of its 29 sports as a cost-saving measure, the University of California at Berkeley now says it has raised en[...]
November 21st, 2010 - 11:30 am § in Misc.
Do Husky Athletes Attend Classes?
TA stumbled on this site. It purports to tell Husky athletes how they can fulfill the academic side of their careers, something the UW emphasizes both in Scott Woodward’s (athletic director) note to the incoming athletes and in the press releases we always read. Look through the site, look at [...]
Seattle Times Editorial: Turns out the UW athletic department is not ‘self-sustaining’
How well does the UW Athletics Program serve the needs of Washington State kids interested in athletic careers? “To the extent that he thought about public colleges at all, it was only to revel in memories of 1969, when he captained the University of South Carolina football team” [...]