| By Jeremy Bauer-wolf, www.insidehighered.com | Most queer teen athletes are not out to their coaches, and many transgender youth don’t feel comfortable in a locker room, according to a sweeping new survey. About 12,000 teenagers ages 13 to 17 were surveyed by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer lobbying group Human Rights Campaign, which worked with […]
Why I’m Stubbornly Optimistic About the Future of Small Colleges
| By Joshua Kim, www.insidehighered.com | Last week we learned that yet another small college, Oregon’s Marylhurst University, is closing. Higher ed publications are full of stories with depressing titles such as Days of Reckoning and The Culling of Higher Ed Begins. Moody’s Investor Services warns that small nonprofit closures are set to double or triple in the years ahead. The disciples of disruptive innovation […]
Should Athletes Be Paid for Name and Image?
| By Jeremy Bauer-wolf, www.insidehighered.com | WASHINGTON — A National Collegiate Athletic Association special commission on reforming college basketball recently ducked the issue of athletes being paid for their name, image or likeness — currently banned under the association’s rules. But Condoleezza Rice, the former U.S. secretary of state and Stanford University provost, and the panel’s chairwoman, last week […]
A Racial Slur in a White Sport
| By Jeremy Bauer-wolf, www.insidehighered.com | When a video surfaced of the Virginia Tech women’s lacrosse players singing a hip-hop song on the team bus, something was immediately apparent. A predominantly white team sang a song that repeatedly uses a racial slur — the N-word — and was captured on camera. The internet reacted accordingly, with many […]
Can the NCAA Basketball Commission Accomplish Anything?
| By Jeremy Bauer-wolf, www.insidehighered.com | The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s president, Mark Emmert, acknowledged that there would be a collective public eye roll at his announcement of a commission to reform big-time men’s basketball. In a speech to thousands of delegates at the NCAA annual convention in January, he paraphrased the association’s critics: “Oh, that’s what the […]
Paying College Athletes
| By John Thelin, www.insidehighered.com | Now that the football season is over, college sports fans have several options. They can argue about whether next year the University of Alabama will defend its 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship title. Or they can turn to watching some of the more than 50 National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball […]
Tracking ‘Invisible Colleges’
| By Rick Seltzer, www.insidehighered.com | Alexander Astin and Calvin Lee wrote a report in 1972 about small, private four-year colleges, examining 491 nonselective institutions they dubbed “invisible colleges” because they weren’t well-known and few observers were worried about their well-being. The report was written for the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. A forward by commission chairman Clark […]
Ethical College Admissions: Football Factories
| By Jim Jump, www.insidehighered.com | The college football season ends tonight when conference rivals Alabama and Georgia face off in Atlanta in the College Football Playoff championship game. By the end of the evening we will have answered the question of which university will be crowned national champion of college football’s highest division, the Football Bowl […]