{"id":5433,"date":"2009-03-09T10:55:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T18:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5433"},"modified":"2009-03-09T10:55:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T18:55:32","slug":"academic-accountability-in-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/academic-accountability-in-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Accountability in Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/03\/09\/divisioniii\">Academic Accountability in Athletics<\/a><br \/>\nMarch 9, 2009<\/p>\n<p>A new study of 77 Division III institutions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association reveals a consistent and widening academic performance gap between athletes and non-athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, the College Sports Project \u2013 an initiative of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation \u2013 released its second annual report as part of a five-year longitudinal study comparing the academic performance of athletes to that of non-athletes at participating Division III institutions. The research project has gained much attention because Division III, unlike Divisions I and II, does not track the academic performance of athletes separately from that of the rest of an institution\u2019s student body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: Academic Accountability in Athletics March 9, 2009 A new study of 77 Division III institutions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association reveals a consistent and widening academic performance gap between athletes and non-athletes. Monday, the College Sports &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/academic-accountability-in-athletics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747],"tags":[1288933,1288939,1288966],"class_list":["post-5433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","tag-academics","tag-accountability","tag-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5434,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions\/5434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}