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  •  Dead-end majors at some colleges (0+ / 0-)

    A number of colleges have been accused of shunting football and basketball players into majors such as communications and criminal justice. That really shouldn't happen if schools made sure student-athletes were making "reasonable progress" toward a degree.

    Replete with "misstatements" and elisions and retracted and redacted and revoked assertions.--Carl Bernstein on HRC's record.

    by Dump Terry McAuliffe on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:00:32 PM PDT

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    •  I agree. (0+ / 0-)

      I think that every program (football, basketball, tennis, what have you) at an NCAA affiliate school should be required to maintain a certain graduation rate - no clue as to where you should set the mark.

      If, though, this grad rate is not maintained, the program sanctioned. Loss of scholarships, television coverage, etc.

      "Remember all the movies, Terry, that we'd go see / trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be." - The Boss

      by turnover on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 06:04:51 PM PDT

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    •  Those aren't dead end majors per se (1+ / 0-)

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      Dump Terry McAuliffe

      Criminal Justice degrees can be used in a variety of fields such as government and law enforcement. As for communications, though, I'm more inclined to agree with you.

      by jiacinto on Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 09:27:10 PM PDT

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