January 14, 2008

NCAA Committee to Explore Concerns Over Athletes' Clustering in Certain Majors

By Brad Wolverton

Nashville

For the first time, the NCAA is considering studying whether athletes cluster in certain majors, the chairman of one of the association's most powerful committees said late last week during the group's annual convention here.

"At some level, everyone knows that athletes are being channeled into certain majors," Walter Harrison, president of the University of Hartford and chairman of the NCAA Division I Committee on Academic Performance, said in an interview with The

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