| By Lindsay Ellis, www.chronicle.com | More than an hour and a half passed between when a University of Maryland football player reported exhaustion and when his ambulance departed for the hospital, according to a new investigation into the death of the athlete published on Friday by the University System of Maryland. The delay of care for 19-year-old […]
What an Art Historian Learned From the Football Team
| By Beckie Supiano, Chronicle of Higher Ed | Cheating. Sexual assault. Physical abuse. These days, it seems, college football is in the news for all the wrong reasons. The scandals consuming some Division I programs are serious, says Gretchen Kreahling McKay, but they can also give professors at Division III colleges like hers a mistaken understanding of the players […]
How to Sell the Value of the Liberal Arts
| By Eric Kelderman, www.chronicle.com | Carmen T. Ambar, president of Oberlin College, says institutions like hers need to explain to students and their families that a liberal-arts education is still worth the price.
The NCAA Is Too Far Gone for Incremental Reform
| By Arne Duncan, Carol Cartwright, www.chronicle.com | At its spring meeting last month, the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics made a radical recommendation. We urged the NCAA to shift from being a membership association — with inherent conflicts of interest — to being an independent leadership organization capable of propelling real change in the college revenue sports of Division […]
Why Legalizing Sports Betting Is Good for the NCAA
| By John Wolohan, www.chronicle.com | Last week the United States Supreme Court, in a long-awaited decision that is sure to have major implications for college athletics, struck down the federal ban on single-game sports betting in states other than Nevada (where the ban did not apply). In Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association (formerly […]
A Checklist for Transformative Leaders
By Elaine P. Maimon for The Chronicle of Higher Education Higher-education transformation, which is essential if colleges and universities are to survive in the 21st century, relies on transformative presidential leadership. Twenty-seven years ago, Judy B. Rosener, now a professor emerita in the business school at the University of California at Irvine, wrote an article in the Harvard […]
A Small College’s Financial Innovations
| By Alexander C. Kafka, www.chronicle.com | WATCH the video here. Jeff Abernathy, president, Alma College Jeff Abernathy, president of Alma College, in Michigan, discusses ways he is stretching a dollar, rethinking administrative structure at the top, and using technology to help Alma and two other small private colleges pool their curricular resources. With a favorable-term loan […]