Chronicle News Blog: Faculty Coalition Urges Colleges to Investigate Clustering of Athletes in Easy Courses
An influential faculty-led athletics coalition issued a call this morning for colleges to investigate whether their athletes are clustered in certain majors and taking snap courses.
The announcement by the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics, made up of more than 50 faculty senates at NCAA Division I-A institutions, comes in response to allegations that athletes at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor are steered into independent-study courses where some professors give them an easy pass.
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