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Boosting the Bottom Line Through Athletics - Josh Moody, Inside Higher Ed

Economics and Change in Higher Education

As a revenue-generating sport, men’s basketball is almost certainly safe. But other sports may be in peril as part of an athletics department that struggles to generate positive revenue—a common affliction across the NCAA landscape. Ditto for football.

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International student athletes in the US – a Global North affair?

The PIE News

International students with enough athletic prowess can really change the game for themselves – hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition can be waived if you’re at the top of your game in football, basketball, even tennis or rowing. Those team sports generally provide more scholarship places to begin with but the competition is fierce. “One

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U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee and NCAA Office of Inclusion Launch Programming Initiatives for Adaptive Sports

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and NCAA Office of Inclusion have launched multiple programming initiatives for adaptive sports, sports for people with disabilities. The initiatives will be implemented across the Women’s Final Four, Drake Relays and ITA Fall National Championships.

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Adaptive College Sports Bring Athletes with Disabilities off the Sidelines

Insight Into Diversity

During that time, he was reintroduced to sports in the form of wheelchair basketball. Here we are 20 years later, and I’m presented with the same form of an opportunity, playing the sport that I love for one of the top schools in the country,” Montgomery says. “Instead, I was in the hospital getting a bullet removed from my back.”.

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Delise O’Meally

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

O’Meally grew up in Jamaica and played tennis at Morgan State, where her interest in international college sports first blossomed. In addition, O’Meally was elected to a four-year term as vice president for the United States International University Sport Federation, which is the United States governing body within FISU.

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International student athletes in the US losing out on sponsorship

The PIE News

If you’re in the US, or just an avid basketball fan, these are names that might have appeared in the sports section you read in the morning – at least in the month of March and early April. Students from overseas have been gracing American television sets for multiple years in various sports.

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Out With the Old, In With the New: Decolonizing the School Counseling Profession to Support Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He has excelled in school, academic competitions (spelling bee), and sports (particularly tennis). and Mrs. Johnson are proud parents of third grader, Mason. He has been one of the top performing students every year of his short educational experience.

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