While I regularly pretend to know nothing about football with comments like “is that the sport with the oblong ball?,” I occasionally give myself away as a football fan, even as I deplore its undue importance to higher education.
Today …
Yet another Colonial Athletic Association team has dropped its football team. Today it was Hofstra University, which brought its 72 year-old program to an end. Hofstra will use the $4.5 million savings on scholarships and other academic priorities. Hofstra …
Something you don’t read every day: Northeastern University has elected to discontinue its football program. In the press release, President Joseph Aoun is quoted as saying: ”At a time when higher education is critically important to rebuilding our knowledge-based economy, …
It is good to see West Virginia University focusing on the institution’s impressive research efforts in its lead website news story today. It seems Dr. Julian Bailes, a researcher with the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute at WVU, has had his …
A lot being said about college athletics over the last few days:
- Rich Rod accused of overpracticing his student athletes at the University of Michigan in violation of NCAA rules.
- Student athlete and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow admitting to
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