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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Whittier College announced that it is discontinuing its football team, men’s lacrosse and men’s and women’s golf. “According to data from the Aspen Institute and the National Federation of State High School Associations, football is in decline across the United States. million to less than 1.9

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AUGUST 19, 2022

The move by USC and UCLA, which is due to take effect in 2024, was the latest in a decade-long seismic shift in the landscape of big-time college football and men’s basketball that has obliterated historical geographic boundaries and rivalries in universities’ pursuit of greater revenues. Even Bigger Changes Possible.

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MAY 10, 2023

NCAA: Kentucky State Falsified Football Player’s Eligibility Josh Moody Wed, 05/10/2023 - 03:00 AM

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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. Combs presented the check to JSU between the first and second quarters of the school’s victory over South Carolina State on Saturday. Combs’ checkbook had a busy weekend.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The exclusion of the undefeated ACC Champion Florida State University Seminoles from the college football playoff has sparked a significant debate. This decision marks the first time an unbeaten Power 5 conference champion has been denied an opportunity to compete for the national championship in the college football playoff era.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The exclusion of Florida State University’s football team from the College Football Playoff serves as a stark reminder of the challenges facing high school recruits, particularly quarterbacks, hoping to join top-tier college football programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2023

The University of San Diego is disciplining approximately half its football team due to a hazing incident that occurred earlier this month, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Michigan State University on Monday said it planned to fire Mel Tucker, the football coach whose alleged harassment of a rape survivor and activist is under investigatio

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The National Collegiate Athletic Association on Thursday reversed an earlier ruling that had made a football player transferring to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ineligible to compete. That isn’t remarkable: the NCAA makes such rulings regularly. But the language it used in announcing the decision was.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 18, 2023

Fort Scott Community College (FSCC) has settled a lawsuit regarding the heat-related death of football player Tirrell Williams, NPR reported. Soon after Williams’s death, FSCC discontinued its football program but said it was a financial decision. Williams died two weeks later.

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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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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The University of California, Los Angeles, plays its football games to half-capacity crowds, The New York Times reported. This is despite the Bruins being a good football team.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2023

A Kansas community college has settled a lawsuit filed by the mother of a student who died in 2021 after a grueling football workout, KCUR reported.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Image: Florida A&M University leadership is facing demands for accountability after 26 football players were declared ineligible for their season opener, which the players blamed on inadequate academic advising in a scathing letter to administrators. Land is one of several players who has since been reinstated.).

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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. 21 that the school would not be ratifying his contrac t , Sports Illustrated reported.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 11, 2023

Northwestern University fired its head football coach, Pat Fitzgerald, on Monday following the release of allegations of sexualized hazing in the program.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

Two House lawmakers have teamed up to form a new congressional caucus focused on preserving and protecting more than a dozen historic college football stadiums, including the Rose Bowl, the Yale Bowl and Louisiana State University’s Tiger Stadium.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 17, 2023

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville’s football program committed hundreds of recruiting violations over several years, including payments to athletes and their families, leading the National Collegiate Athletic Association to

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

All three were members of the University of Virginia football team. ” Tony Elliott, head football coach of the UVA Cavaliers, said in a statement that the three men were “called away too soon.” Jones was on the UVA football roster in 2018 but hasn’t been on the team for more than a year.

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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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Gray Associates

APRIL 25, 2023

Should the University of Notre Dame football join a conference? As the landscape of college football continues to shift, many conferences are vying to add the Fighting Irish to their ranks. However, what would be the economic impact of such a move?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

A racial discrimination lawsuit filed by about a dozen former University of Iowa football players has been settled for $4.175 million, the Associated Press reported.

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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. Read more from NBC News.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

A Central Methodist University football player was shot and killed last week, The Fayette Advertiser reported. Kundarrius Taylor fatally shot his roommate, Torrance Evans, on Thursday evening. Taylor is also enrolled at Central Methodist. Central Methodist canceled classes Friday.

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2023

The Notre Dame college football team is independent. The landscape of college football is rapidly changing. Notre Dame’s Next Move When USC and UCLA announced their move from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten, Notre Dame’s knee-jerk reaction could have been to leave football independence behind and join a conference. Should it be?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Board of Managers of the College Football Playoff voted Friday to expand the current four-team playoff into a 12-team playoff. “This is an historic and exciting day for college football,” said Mark Keenum, the president of Mississippi State University and chairman of the Board of Managers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

Northwestern University football coach Pat Fitzgerald has been fired Jul. Pat Fitzgerald Fitzgerald “was being relieved of his duties effective immediately” due to his “failure to know and prevent significant hazing” in the school’s football program, Northwestern President Michael Schill said in a public statement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

University of Georgia football player Jalen Carter surrendered to police in Athens, Georgia the night of Mar 1. 15 car crash that killed teammate and redshirt sophomore Devin Willock and football team staff member Chandler LeCroy. night after a warrant was issued for his arrest earlier that day, ProFootballTalk reported.

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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. Those concerns are now being heightened by the push to expand the college football playoffs.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Simon Fraser University, the NCAA’s only Canadian program, announced that it is moving four home football games to Washington State, citing vaccine requirements for crossing the border into Canada. Two-plus years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the coronavirus continues to drive changes across the college sports world.

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Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag tells of football, argumentative professors and an outbreak of poetry The post Higher education postcard: Marischal College, University of Aberdeen appeared first on Wonkhe.

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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

JULY 17, 2023

The University of Tennessee football program is being reprimanded for recruiting violations and direct cash payments to athletes , reported reported. approval for six years.

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University Business

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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AUGUST 24, 2022

John Haynes, a former Troy University football player, is suing a former teammate and three coaches over an alleged pattern of abuse and bullying that he says resulted in him being sexually assaulted with a pool cue, according to CBS42 News. The defendant, Jack Dawson, is now a punter for Jacksonville State University.

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