THE NCAA NEWS/April 27.1988 Improvements in Education Not Good Enough, Bennett Says Public Education Has Improved Was Released in 1982
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Ofticial Publication of the National Collegiate Athletic Association April 27,1988, Volume 25 Number 17 Executive Committee to study proposals on women, minorities Programs designed to enhance tional office, and development and and women’s basketball and spring opportunities for women and ethnic maintenance of “vita banks” at the football on the Divisions I-A, I-AA minorities will be considered by the national office. and II levels. The committee also is Association’s Executive Committee After meeting May 1, the Special asking the Executive Committee to during its May 2-3 meeting in Kan- Committee to Review Future Office modify existing guidelines to permit sas City. In addition, the group will Requirements will report to the the submission of new equipment consider recommendations from sev- Executive Committee and is ex- by manufacturers for review and eral general NCAA committees and pected to recommend a plan of comment only ~ not for approval. governing sports committees. action regarding future space re- The Executive Committee will be Similar in nature are programs quirements for the national office. asked to deal with contradicting being proposed by the Special Coun- Also to be reviewed is a report recommendations from representa- cil Subcommittee to Review Minor- from the Committee on Competitive tives of the Association’s Men’s and The champ ity Opportunities in Intercollegiate Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Women’s Basketball Rules Com- Athletics and the NCAA Committee Sports that requests resources for mittees regarding the continued pub- KHV-t-4 on Women’s Athletics. Each is seek- development of materials dealing lication of common rules. Univemity of Okla- ing programs to enhance opportu- with eating disorders. The men’s committee is request- homa junior; became nities for their targeted groups that The group also has requested ing a return to separate rules publi- the mtcompetttor to would include establishment of post- continuation of the annual injury- cations, while the women’s win Uwee champion- graduate scholarships, development surveillance system and expansion committee is requesting continua- ship In one y8~1 at of internship programs at the na- of that program to include men’s See Executive Committee, page 2 the National Colle- g&Me WbmenS Gym- nastics Champion- Council backs separate programs shiosln SaftLake CI& She defended her l&I7 atl-arvund titfe, f or women, minorities in athletics and her four tamer The NCAA Council has endorsed minorities and women who are col- programs as well as other minorities tiUesUeachampbn- separate programs designed to en- lege graduates and who have been and women interested in positions ship8 itwind Tlie Unl- hance opportunities for ethnic mi- accepted into an approved sports- in intercollegiate athletics adminis- verity of Alabama, norities and women in intercollegiate administration program or a related tration, coaching or other areas. -,wonfhe athletics, as recommended by Spe- program at an NCAA member in- The NCAA will contact qualified team championship. cial Council Subcommittee to Re- stitution. Recipients must express participants in the vita-bank pro- Seestotyonpsge6. view Minority Opportunities in an interest in preparing for a career gram and intercollegiate sports or- Intercollegiate Athletics and the in the administration of intercolle- ganizations or institutions when an NCAA Committee on Women’s Ath- giate athletics. opening in the individual’s area of letics, respectively. l internships at the NCAA na- interest is available. Meeting April 18-20 in Washing- tional office to provide on-the-job It is hoped that all three of the ton, D.C., the Council supported learning experience for ethnic mi- program elements can be opera- both programs, agreed that they norities and women who are college tional by this fall. Results of the should be administered in the na- graduates and who express an inter- minority-opportunity committee’s tional office as a single program, est in pursuing a spotts-administra- survey regarding numbers of mi- and left determination of financial tion career at the college level. The nority individuals involved in college allocations and other details to the internships are intended as one-year athletics will be available by June, discretion of the NCAA Executive programs but may be for longer or and that committee will submit its Committee, which will meet May 2- shorter periods upon consent of the final report to the Council in August. 3 in Kansas City, Missouri. accrediting institution, the student Other actions As recommended by the two com- and the national office. In other actions in its spring meet- mittees, both programs would in- l A “vita bank,,, to be established ing, the Council: clude the same ingredients: by the national office, that will l Approved recommendations by l Postgraduate scholarships, include participants in the post- the Special Council Subcommittee valued at %6,000 each, for ethnic graduate-scholarship and internship See Council, page 2 Athlete’s, nonathlete’s Federal aid should be equal, Sen. Pell says Sen. Claibome Pell, D-Rhode serving student who does not play spoke at a dinner meeting of the opportunity for lifelong successlong Island, told the NCAA Council sports.” Council during its spring meeting in after his or her last game is played. April 19 that “an athlete’s Federal Pell, chair of the U.S. Senate Washington, D.C. A coach who succeedsin graduating financial aid package should not Education Subcommittee and the “We must all work together to an entire team should receive as differ from that of an equally de- father of the Pell Grant program, restore the value of Federal student much recognition as one who has a grant programs,” PeIl said. winning season.” “This can only be accomplished Pell praised the NCAA for help- Possible office relocation set by first restoring the public’s com- ing to remove “many of the barriers mitment to and confidence in our to a college education for the youth for one of four Kansas sites current student aid programs. The of our nation. The ability of sports nate a series of four meetings by the NCAA has an important role to to motivate and discipline talented The possible relocation of the youth is a great gift to our country.” NCAA national office has been special committee, during which it play in this process,,,he said. But he decried the fact that Federal narrowed to four sites on College evaluated more than 70 sites in the Pell applauded the decision by financial aid has not kept pace with Boulevard in Johnson County, Kan- metropolitan Kansas City area, as Division I voters in January to the cost of a college education. sas,approximately eight miles south well as half a dozen other cities permit needy student-athletes to of the current office location. across the nation. retain up to %1,400 of the Pell Grant Congressman Augustus F. Haw- The Special NCAA Committee According to Louis J. Spry, for which they qualify, in addition kins, D-California, chair of the U.S. to Review Future Office Require- NCAA controller and a member of to their athletics grants-in-aid, and House Committee on Education ments, which has been studying the special committee, the Associa- to assure that the actual amount and Labor, addressed the Council space needs for the national office tion currently is leasing office space received does not exceed that al- Sen. Claibome Pell at a luncheon meeting April 18. for nearly a year, will meet May 1 in after using all available facilities in lowed for nonathletes on the same He called for greater Federal Kansas City, Missouri, prior to its two buildings at Nall Avenue campus. adopted nationwide,” Pell said. funding for higher education in submitting its recommendation to and U.S. Highway 56 in Johnson “While 1 firmly believe that there He also urged the NCAA to general. the Executive Committee in the County. should be no difference in the “carefully evaluate the education its Many members of the Council latter’s May 2-3 meeting, also in Studies by outside consultants amounts of aid received by athletes athletes are receiveing. For many spent the afternoon April 20 visiting Kansas City. indicate that the Association will and nonathletes, this policy is a step student-athletes,” he said, “a solid their own Congressional represen- The recommendation will culmi- See Nat&a/, page 2 in the right direction and should be college education will provide an tatives. 2 THE NCAA NEWS/April 27.1988 Improvements in education not good enough, Bennett says Public education has improved was released in 1982. college entrance examinations such group of 1982 graduates found less tion work experience and personal slightly in the past live years, but That report sparked numerous as the Scholastic Aptitude Test and than two percent of the 1982sample service and development courses. American College Testing Program. had completed the academic pro- Education Secretary William J. Ben- education reforms, including stif- It suggesteda curriculum of Eng- But despite improvements in key nett, in a report released April 25, fening of high school graduation gram suggested in “A Nation at lish, mathematics, science, social requirements, changes in curricular skill and subject areas, such as read- Risk.,, In 1987, 12.7 percent of grad- chastized schools for “not doing studies, computer science, and, for ing and writing, the report said uating students had done so. well enough fast enough” to raise content, and legislation to improve college-bound students, two years improvements are “disappointingly standards. teaching standards and school lead- When foreign language and com- of a foreign language. Bennett evaluated the state of ership. slow” and at “excessively low levels puter science classes are omitted American education in a report to But Bennett said, “The absolute of achievement.,, Bennett said the means to im- from the tally, improvement is more President Reagan, United Press In- level at which our improvements A separate national study by the prove schools were readily available dramatic-from 13.4 percent of ternational reported.