Education Fund Releases Major Research Report: Improving Academic Outcomes in NCAA Division I Revenue Sports and HBCU Limited Resource Athletic Programs

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Education Fund Releases Major Research Report: Improving Academic Outcomes in NCAA Division I Revenue Sports and HBCU Limited Resource Athletic Programs

A new report by The Drake Group Education Fund (TDGEF) highlights the low graduation rates of Division I football and basketball players, especially Black athletes at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). It urges universities to improve academic support for these athletes, who face pressure to succeed in both academics and sports. Julie Sommer, Executive Director of … Read more

WEBINAR #39 Women in College Coaching and Administration – The Double Standard

A stellar line-up of attorneys, coaches, and academic experts discussed the subtle and not so subtle ways in which a double standard is applied to female coaches and athletics administrators from evaluation of performance to compensation, hiring, and termination decisions. The most current statistics on female administrator and coach employment at the college level, including … Read more

Food Insecurity Among College Student-Athletes

Most people don’t know that the majority of college athletes do NOT receive athletic scholarships.  Most athletes who receive athletic scholarships are receiving partial awards rather than the amounts covering the full cost of education.  While 42 percent of college students report being “food insecure,” that percent among athletes is 60 percent with 51 percent … Read more

Webinars #35, #36, #37, #38 – Every Session of The Sack National Symposium on April 18 from Howard University

The purpose of the 2024 Allen Sack National Symposium on April 18 at Howard University in Washington, DC was to address national issues having a critical impact on college athletic programs. Speakers and panelists discussed college athletes’ well-being with a focus on hazing, bullying, coach misconduct, and the little-known fact that thousands of college athletes … Read more

WEBINAR #34 What is the Role of the Press in Covering College Sports?

Student reporters and accomplished sports journalists who were judges in this year’s The Drake Group Education Fund Student Journalism Prize for Investigative Reporting on Intercollegiate Athletics participate in a wide-ranging conversation about college sports and the role of investigative journalism. Student journalists from Northwestern University and Quinnipiac University, winners of this year’s sports journalism contest … Read more

POOR SPORTS

Nicolaus Mills, a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College pens his thoughts on the silence of St. John’s University administrators in response to Head Men’s Basketball Coach Rick Pitino’s comments following the failure of his team to qualify for the 2024 edition of March Madness.  READ FULL OPINION