We college presidents have learned to tread lightly when it comes to the passions of alumni and other fans for our athletic teams, whether it is one competing for a national championship or a...
For acclaimed sports journalist Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post, the Covid-19 pandemic has blown the lid off excessive spending in college athletics and brought higher education to a profound reckoning point. She sat down with...
How's your NCAA March Madness bracket doing? College sports aren't just about the thrill of victory anymore. Over the years, more and more respected college teams have been painted in scandal due to academic...
WASHINGTON, DC—As Americans tune in Monday for the College Football Playoff National Championship […]
Front Page: Athletics and Academic Excellence. When yet more shocking details of the athletics scandal at UNC Chapel Hill broke this past fall, ACTA was with the New York Post in declaring that it wasn’t...
WASHINGTON, DC—Athletic scandals like the ones that plagued Penn State, Syracuse, and the […]
A lawsuit filed earlier this week by former University of North Carolina football player Michael McAdoo claims that UNC “systematically funneled its football student-athletes into a ‘shadow curriculum’ of bogus courses which never met...
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