PRESS RELEASE – AUGUST 14, 2019 For immediate release For more information: Fritz Polite, President The Drake Group (407) 758-0811 fpolite@su.edu www.TheDrakeGroup.org The Drake Group Applauds North Carolina General Assembly Athlete Protection Initiative NEW HAVEN, CONN. – The Drake Group, a national organization of faculty and others whose mission is to defend educational integrity in … Read more
PRESS RELEASE – JULY 30, 2019 For immediate release For more information: Fritz Polite, President The Drake Group (407) 758-0811 fpolite@su.edu www.TheDrakeGroup.org The Drake Group Applauds U.S. Senator Murphy’s Report on Need for Intercollegiate Athletics Academic Reforms NEW HAVEN, CONN. – The Drake Group applauded U.S. Senator Christopher Murphy’s (D-CT) report, released on July 25, … Read more
PRESS RELEASE – JULY 22, 2019 For immediate release For more information: Fritz Polite, President The Drake Group (407) 758-0811 fpolite@su.edu www.TheDrakeGroup.org The Drake Group Reacts to the $208 Million NCAA Grant-In-Aid Antitrust Settlement WEST HAVEN, CONN — Today the Drake Group commented on the $208 million settlement reached in the portion of the NCAA … Read more
PRESS RELEASE – JULY 18, 2019 For immediate release For more information: Dr. Fritz Polite, Ph.D. President The Drake Group (407) 758-0811 fpolite@su.edu www.TheDrakeGroup.org The Drake Group Endorses Effort in California to Allow College Athletes to Profit off Name, Image and Likeness WEST HAVEN, CONN — Today the Drake Group issued a strong statement in … Read more
PRESS RELEASE – JULY 2, 2019 For immediate release For more information: Fritz Polite, President The Drake Group (407) 758-0811 fpolite@su.edu www.TheDrakeGroup.org The NCAA Changing Transfer Waiver Provisions Is Not Fair to the College Athlete WEST HAVEN, CONN — Last week the NCAA Division I Council approved new, more stringent criteria to determine whether athletes in … Read more
PRESS RELEASE – MARCH 20, 2019 For immediate release For more information: Fritz Polite, President The Drake Group (407) 758-0811 fpolite@au.edu www.TheDrakeGroup.org Senator Birch Bayh: A Tribute NEW HAVEN, CONN. – On his recent passing at age 91, The Drake Group wishes to paytribute to the life and work of former Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN). … Read more
When I got off the phone with Allen Sack, after he had informed me that I was the recipient of this year’s Robert Maynard Hutchins award, my first sensation was one of humility. So many past winners of this award have been truly heroic figures, people whose risk-taking and fortitude I have personally found inspiring … Read more
The 2009 Robert Maynard Hutchins Award winner was Jon Ericson, a former provost and professor of rhetoric and communication studies at Drake University. Ericson, a passionate believer that big-time college sport is undermining academic integrity, assembled a distinguished group of scholars, authors, and activists at Drake University in 1999, out of which emerged the Drake … Read more
Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana State University has settled a lawsuit from one of two former instructors who said they were pressured to change football players’ grades and hide academic misconduct several years ago. The school continues to deny wrongdoing, and settled to avoid the expense of further litigation by Tiffany Terrell Mayne, … Read more
Jan Kemp Dies at 59; Exposed Fraud in Grades of Players By Richard Goldstein Jan Kemp, a former English instructor whose lawsuit against the University of Georgia in the 1980s drew national attention to preferential treatment of college athletes unable to meet academic standards, died on Dec. 4 in Athens, Ga. She was 59. The … Read more