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ERIC Number: EJ611481
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-5982
A Professor's Challenge to Sports at Tennessee.
Suggs, Welch
Chronicle of Higher Education, v46 n46 pA37-38 Jul 21 2000
Describes the battle of one English professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville against the special academic help provided to athletes at that institution. Notes a possible investigation by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, media attention, and the professor's proposal that all academic tutoring be overseen by an academic official rather than someone within the athletics department. (DB)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Athletes, College Athletics, Higher Education, Remedial Instruction, Tutorial Programs
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: University of Tennessee Knoxville