By Gerald Gurney and Dr. Richard M. Southall
Originally published February 14, 2013
A decade has passed since the National Collegiate Athletic Association rolled out its academic reform package. In that time, there is strong evidence that the reforms designed to open access to higher education to more athletes and punishing coaches and institutions failing at academics came at the expense of the integrity of the academy. The landscape of the NCAA’s program is scorched with scandals surrounding admissions, academic fraud, major clustering, and clever gaming of the system for the wealthiest institutions to avoid penalties. We conclude that it has significantly damaged higher education.