April 15, 2005

When 'Academic Progress' Isn't

By MURRAY SPERBER

Public relations, more than any other motive, seems to drive the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Before analyzing the association's new Academic Progress Rate, let's look at why the NCAA, with great media fanfare, released its list of how various colleges measured up according to that rate -- many with good academic results, a minority with negative ratings -- in late February. Surely a more logical release time would have been in January at the association's national

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