Just a week after its women’s basketball players were crowned at the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament, Baylor University could be bracing for bad news from the NCAA. ESPN.com reported Monday that an investigation has found more than 1,200 instances of impermissible recruiting contacts on the part of Baylor’s men’s and women’s basketball coaches.
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April 10, 2012
Survey of counseling center directors contains an encouraging finding that suggests outreach to diverse students is working.
April 6, 2012
The University of Connecticut men’s basketball team will have to sit out the 2012-13 postseason, after it failed in its final effort to appeal a National Collegiate Athletic Association decision that banned the team from the tournament because of poor academic performance. The team is ineligible because it didn’t reach the (newly raised) minimum NCAA Academic Progress Rate of 930, which would indicate that half its players were on track to graduate.
April 5, 2012
Howard University is conducting an internal investigation into possible National Collegiate Athletic Association rules violations, and the institution has “temporarily withheld a number of student-athletes from competition,” a Howard spokeswoman, Kerry-Ann Hamilton, said Wednesday. But "most teams will compete as scheduled," she added.
March 30, 2012
The athletes who will compete in the Final Four have much more going on than just basketball. Sport psychologists help them rein it all in.
March 28, 2012
A study finds that, contrary to popular belief, significant parental involvement in students' college life isn't always a bad thing.
March 26, 2012
At Georgia State, the psychologists who helped students complained about some university policies they viewed as hurting their patients. Then the university outsourced their jobs.
March 20, 2012
The Clementi case shone a national spotlight on cyberbullying. But it also showed what can happen in the most extreme situations of poor communication between roommates.
March 19, 2012
Interfaith activists say some religious campuses are becoming more welcoming to atheist students, but there's still room for improvement.
March 19, 2012
Dharun Ravi -- the former Rutgers University student who used a webcam to spy on his roommate, Tyler Clementi, kissing another man in their dorm room, tweeted about it and set up another viewing for other students days later -- was convicted Friday on charges of committing a hate crime, invasion of privacy and bias intimidation.
After finding out about Ravi’s actions in September 2010, Clementi committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge.
