June 23, 2000

U. of Tennessee Restructures Tutoring Program for Athletes

By WELCH SUGGS

Tutors and academic advisers for athletes will no longer report to the two athletics directors at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, under a new plan announced by the university's president, J. Wade Gilley.

After a series of national news stories suggested that athletes were receiving too much help with assignments, Mr. Gilley said this month that academic support services for male and female athletes would report to the provost. Tennessee has separate

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