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Losing to Win
Faculty leaders at Rutgers are challenging spending decisions that have left the athletics department in a "black hole" of internal debt amassed in a costly drive to improve the university's on-field prowess.
Ex-Fencing Coach at Harvard Arrested for Bribery
He is charged with receiving $1.5 million in payments from the father of two of his athletes.
COVID-19 Roundup: A Domino Falls on Winter Sports
New England conference cancels its winter sports season, and West Chester abandons spring sports. Some colleges resume in-person instruction as others suspend it. And a journal cites COVID-19 policy for taking a side in November.
Opinion
Why America Needs College Football -- Part 2
Matthew J. Mayhew apologizes for an article that he recently wrote for Inside Higher Ed and describes beginning a long process of antiracist learning.
Opinion
Why America Needs College Football
Essentializing college football might help get us through these uncharacteristically difficult times of great isolation, division and uncertainty, Matthew J. Mayhew and Musbah Shaheen contend.
COVID-19 Roundup: More Cases and Controversy
More colleges and universities report hundreds of positive cases; report about myocarditis in college athletes as some big-time football programs withhold COVID-19 numbers.
Pulling the Plug on Fall Sports
Big Ten and Pac-12 Conferences call off 2020 season due to coronavirus concerns. Other Power 5 leagues seem disinclined to follow, leaving potential split in big-time football.
COVID-19: Big-Time Football on the Edge
News report says Big Ten to cancel season, as Trump and others lobby for football; assessing how COVID-19 changed grading and assessment; no apparent increase in financial aid applications.