Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

University of Alabama football head coach Nick Saban has announced his retirement. Alabama head coach Nick Saban leaves the field after their win against Ohio State in an NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game, Tuesday, Jan. 10, won seven national championships , more than any major college football coach.

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University Business

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The post Does a winning football team boost college enrollment? Campus infrastructure blossomed, with new buildings all over campus, from dormitories to an alumni center to new engineering and business academic buildings, according to the story. Read more from Deseret News. appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Florida’s top prosecutor on Tuesday announced an antitrust probe against the College Football Playoff selection committee, seeking answers about why the undefeated Florida State Seminoles were kept out of the four-team competition this month. 3 that the playoff teams would be Michigan, Washington, Texas and Alabama.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The four biggest conferences have media rights deal of various lengths worth more than $20 billion, with football driving most of that value. The post Revenue-sharing with major college football players seems ‘inevitable.’ Read more from AP News. How could it be done? appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

College football bowl games give both teams and fans a huge boost—and they can also give student-athletes a spark in the classroom, new research shows. Those concerns are now being heightened by the push to expand the college football playoffs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Football Hall of Famer Ed Reed will become Bethune-Cookman University’s head football coach after the school announced that it had agreed for him to step into the role, Yahoo Sports reported. Reed, 44, has been the chief of staff and senior football adviser for the University of Miami football team.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Not anymore: Selling beer and wine inside college football stadiums has become the norm over the past decade, a way for schools to bring in more revenue and attract fans who might otherwise be inclined to stay home. For many years, the booze flowed only outside of stadiums. Read more from AP News.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Jonathan Smith will become head football coach for Michigan State University (MSU), pending formal approval from the MSU Board of Trustees. Johnathan Smith Michigan State University Smith, 44, has led at Oregon State as head coach for the past six seasons, with the Beavers attaining a 16-2 home record over the last three.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

Supreme Court in 1984 to allow universities to maximize football revenue, leading to a television-driven money-grab and today’s sweeping upheaval, now looks back with regret on the landmark case he successfully argued. “I Andrew Coats, the lawyer who convinced the U.S. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Peyton Manning will become a professor of practice in The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s (UT) College of Communication and Information, starting this fall. Peyton Manning Manning – acclaimed former football star, sports commentator, and media personality –returns to his alma mater as a featured expert with industry experience.

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Gray Associates

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The post Is the Secret to Growing College Enrollment a New Flag Football Team? The academic programs that benefit from athletic enrollment vary by sport, so the right sport may be able to increase enrollment in a specific program or discipline. We took a deeper look, first at major sports in Division 1, then at “Other Sports.”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Boston College has suspended its swimming and diving program indefinitely for hazing, The New York Times reported. The university does not — and will not — tolerate hazing in any form,” Boston College said in a statement Wednesday. This marks yet another instance of hazing issues on college campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

Racial hiring practices in college athletics saw minor improvement but gender hiring practices declined, according to the 2022 College Sport Racial and Gender Report Card (CSRGRC) from the University of Central Florida (UCF). In D1 football at the FBS level, 44.7% points, a decrease from 2021’s 75.8 points compared with 74.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2023

Some Bethune-Cookman University football players have started a petition to reinstate Ed Reed as the Wildcats head coach after the former NFL star announced Jan. Reed has been outspoken about conditions at some historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) like BCU.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Deion Sanders Former NFL star and renowned coach Deion “Prime Time” Sanders is leaving his position as head football coach of Jackson State University in Mississippi and is heading to The University of Colorado Boulder (CU). Some fans were hurt that Sanders is leaving the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) at its peak.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sean "Diddy" Combs Brenton Ho/Billboard “As someone who attended Howard University and values the transformative experience of historically Black colleges, it remains crucial that we strive to protect and uphold their legacy," Combs said. Combs had also pledged to donate to Jackson State University's football program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has donated $1 million to Jackson State University’s (JSU) football team, continuing his pattern of support for HBCUs. Supporting historically Black colleges and universities is crucial to preserving their legacy and ensuring they continue to change lives,” Combs said. Combs’ checkbook had a busy weekend.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Action taken While there has been steady advancement over the past 40 years, the murder of George Floyd in 2020 has proven to be a seminal moment that has propelled student-athletes, coaches, and administrators to face issues of race and racism in college sports. Invitational to promote social justice and equity. Four years later, 82.8%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Title: Chief Operating Officer, College Football Playoff Williams joined the College Football Playoff in July 2018 as its chief operating officer, after having spent the previous two years as commissioner of the Big Sky Conference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Now that college football season is in full swing again, millions of fans will be planted in front of their televisions cheering on their favorite teams. Current circumstances bring to mind the historic and heroic actions of four African American students from an earlier generation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Hocking College is facing a lawsuit from a former student with Down syndrome who is alleging disability discrimination, retaliation, and assault, ABC News reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

A different form of “carpool” system will be needed for the proposed boycott of Black student-athletes going to Florida public colleges and universities to move from proclamation to implementation. Collectives have become major players in the world of college athletics overall and recruiting specifically.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 30, 2023

More than 37 million people attended college football games in 2022. The largest venues in higher education can fit more than 100,000 fans, and the capacity even medium-sized football stadiums can dwarf entire campus enrollments. As universities continue to wisely invest…

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Ray Schroeder

APRIL 3, 2024

Ditto for football. Stephen Dittmore, dean of the College of Education and Health Sciences at Baldwin Wallace University, has studied the trends in college athletics. According to his analysis, Division I institutions are dropping athletic programs while Division III colleges are adding more sports teams.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The senate has also “humbly offered” several “creative ideas” that could improve the university’s financial situation — which could include tabling the current capital proposal for the school’s $700 million football stadium renovation and asking Gov.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A group of alumni and former employees is making its concerns about the long-term health of Eureka College public. A Facebook page titled “Eureka College Alumni Update” created Dec. He said it was around the time former Eureka football coach Kurt Barth announced his resignation in mid-December. 29 has more than 1,300 members.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2023

The “ Colonials ” nickname has been around since 1926, having replaced “Hatchetites,” “Hatchetmen,” “Axemen” and “Crummen” – for football coach Henry Crum. So those are things that I didn’t think should unify a college campus and excluded a lot of people on the campus from school spirit.”

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 21, 2024

The “Why do you want to go to this college” is among the best examples of how important it is that you take the time to plan and execute a teriffic answer to this prompt. Most colleges want to know why you are interested in attending. Need help writing supplemental essays for your college applications? So tell them!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In this 189-page book, he provides a chronological timeline that highlights the evolution of post-secondary institutions as well as the impact of religion and race and the role of private philanthropy in shaping the prominence of colleges and universities. I couldn’t wait to go to college.” Nonetheless, Gittleman remains optimistic.

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University Business

AUGUST 31, 2023

When it comes to American sports, football is king. Of the top 100 most-watched television broadcasts in 2022, 86% were either professional or college football, according to Nielsen ratings. With marching bands, game day traditions and historic rivalries, the pageantry of the college game is what attracts many fans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

Over half of Americans (54%) support allowing college athletes to be paid for sports-related business ventures using their name, image, and likeness (NIL), according to a recent poll from market research and consulting firm Ipsos. By in large, Americans support that. Meanwhile, there was a more even split for white Americans (50%). "As

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 22, 2023

Oklahoma joins a rapidly lengthening list of big-time universities deciding that spending $100 million or more for lavish, high-tech football centers is a wise investment. So we have to provide a comprehensive approach that makes Oklahoma the most attractive definition for the best and the brightest and do what we do best.”

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As a fellow, you’re part of a “college” – Oxford is essentially made up of lots of mini universities – and able to access all of the facilities, from libraries to catered dinners to social clubs. Getting to see the elitist, constipated bowels of the institution is fascinating enough.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

From the Knight Commission’s view, that particular realignment and others like it only work for football and will force other sports to travel more and cause athletes to miss more classes. All sources of athletic revenues for these 54 schools will likely reach $16 billion annually in 2032.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Legalized betting on college sports took center stage on the second day of the Sports Business Journal Intercollegiate Athletic Forum (IAF) Thursday in Las Vegas, with panels focusing on the opportunities and threats for schools from gambling and its effect on the mental health of athletes. Over $25 billion has been bet legally at U.S.

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University Business

AUGUST 8, 2023

As of today, only four colleges remain: California State University, Oregon State University, Stanford University and Washington State University. The consequences of this major college sports realignment affect more than just Saturday football outings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

The National Football League painted “Black Lives Matter” across endzones and appliqued the motto to jerseys. DEI plans must include input from the college athletes themselves. Now, athletic departments in states disrupting DEI programming are eerily quiet, says Keaton. Dr. Kathleen E. athletic system and not the athletes themselves.

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