University Senate adopts tougher academic standards for athletes By uomatters on 11/06/2014 That would be the UC-Berkeley Senate. Story in the SF Chronicle, here. Published in Uncategorized uomatters
Anonymous 11/06/2014 My understanding is that the UC system considers admissions standards to be a core academic issue and therefore under the jurisdiction of faculty governance. How much of our admissions policy, for athletes or generally, gets vetted by our Senate?
But we don't have that problem 11/06/2014 See http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=500&ATCLID=209737235 Looks like all those fake classes are working. Anyone else think it is odd that football, golf and tennis have the same graduation rates?
anonec 11/06/2014 1 percent increase? I guess someone didn’t have to take a stats class and learn the difference between percent and percentage point…
My understanding is that the UC system considers admissions standards to be a core academic issue and therefore under the jurisdiction of faculty governance. How much of our admissions policy, for athletes or generally, gets vetted by our Senate?
See http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=500&ATCLID=209737235
Looks like all those fake classes are working.
Anyone else think it is odd that football, golf and tennis have the same graduation rates?
1 percent increase? I guess someone didn’t have to take a stats class and learn the difference between percent and percentage point…