The Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics, an athletics-reform group comprising faculty senates at Division I-A institutions, said in a news release last week that the allegations of bogus courses for athletes at Auburn University were inevitable given the NCAA’s recent efforts at pushing for higher academic standards for sports teams. Such efforts, the coalition says, have only provided an incentive to colleges to fraudulently pump up athletes’ grades and graduation rates, as is alleged to have happened for athletes who took independent-study courses in Auburn’s sociology department (The Chronicle, July 14). The coalition calls for giving faculties a greater role in policing such abuses and ensuring integrity.
July 24, 2006
Faculty Group Calls for NCAA Reforms to Avoid Academic Fraud
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