>Academic reform set in motion (The Indianapolis Star)
NCAA directors approve plan that penalizes teams when players don't graduate. GRAPEVINE, Texas -- The long-debated lofty goal of academic reform now has a measuring stick, a timetable and a schedule of penalties that will force college teams to take responsibility for the graduation of its athletes.
>Academic reform hits NCAA floor (The Indianapolis Star)
Division I Board of Directors' decision likely to hit big-money sports hardest. GRAPEVINE, Texas -- An academic standard that could result in scholarship losses for about 25 percent of Division I-A football teams is expected to be decided today at the end of the NCAA Convention.
>NCAA Passes Landmark Academic Reform (AP via Yahoo! News)
The NCAA approved the first phase of a landmark academic reform package Monday under which about 30 percent of Division I football teams would have lost scholarships had it been implemented immediately.
>NCAA approves academic reform (Seattle Times)
Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M. GRAPEVINE, Texas — The NCAA approved the first phase of a landmark academic reform package yesterday under which about 30 percent of Division I football teams would have lost scholarships had it been implemented immediately.
>NCAA Approves Penalties (Washington Post)
Poor graduation rates under tougher standards passed on Tuesday by the NCAA would have caused scholarship losses in a larger percentage of college programs.
>Wesleyan receives grant (News Democrat & Leader)
Kentucky Wesleyan College received a million grant from the James Graham Brown Foundation in Louisville to enhance the James Graham Brown Scholarship Endowment Fund at the school.
>College teams must start making the grade, or else (San Jose Mercury News)
GRAPEVINE, Texas - Sweeping academic reform is on the way as the NCAA on Monday passed the first phase of penalties for its new Academic Performance Program. Sports teams that don't meet minimum academic standards risk losing scholarships.
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