Professors Must Speak Out: Colleges Can No Longer Afford Athletics as Usual

By Gerald S. Gurney and Jerome C. Weber

Basketball fans will focus tonight on the National Collegiate Athletic Association's men's championship game, but amid the excitement of such competition, attention must be paid to how big-time college sports still operate in ways counter to higher education's aims. Although the NCAA celebrates rising graduation rates in Division I sports and the results of other academic reforms, many of those changes have inadvertently led to other thorny problems. What's urgently needed are far-reaching