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University Daily Kansan, September 14, 1981
Report sets academic guidelines for athletes
By SHARON APPELBAUM Staff Reporter
KU officials—in a move designed to ensure equal treatment of students—said Friday they would tighten the reins on student athletes to keep them on the straight and narrow path toward a degree.
The Committee on Academic Standards for Intercollegiate Athletics compiled a report saying, "Student athletes at the University of Kansas."
Del Shanker, special counselor to the chancellor, summarized the report Friday for the University Senate executive committee.
CHANCELOR Gene A. Budig accepted the report's recommendations and planned to appoint a transition committee this week.
The committee also must clarify the
Big Eight's definition of "normal progress toward a degree" and examine possible changes in budgeting and personnel.
The committee chairman, Deanell Tacha, vice candleholder for academic affairs, expected the changes to go into effect in the fall of 1982.
The athletic department also has accepted the recommendations.
"We want to do what the academic people want because very few of our players will go on to professional athletics. We take Fisher, athletic academy-academic and training academy-academic." "They know they can't all end up in to be in the NBA or the NFL."
The suggestions affect only those athletes receiving financial aid, but according to Bob Marcum, athletic colleges are collage colleges and collegiate athletes are on scholarships.
The report suggests five areas for improvement:
- Recruitment; "Those students who visit the campus should have the opportunity for personal discussion with an academic adviser. The report requires that you submit a high school transcript to the dean of admissions and records.
- Advising: "In the past, much of the advising for student athletes has occurred under the auxes of the athletic department and, on the whole, outside the regular academic advising process.
"Responsibility for all academic advising of student athletes should be transferred to the College of Liberal Arts in the school in which the athlete is enrolled.
"Student athletes should visit their advisers periodically."
- Academic expectations and standards: The liberal arts dean should receive a list of all athletes on scholarship to make sure they haven't
been assigned to classes packed with other athletes.
"Particular classes seem to be in good shape and the students by student athletes the report said.
- Certification: It should be the job of the dean of admissions and records to certify athletes for competition.
- Procedures for complaints and investigations: Anyone who thinks an athlete has violated an academic policy should make a statement to the dean of the school involved.
Shankel said many of these recommendations would apply to nonathletes, too.
"There's a little bit of a tendency to single out the athlete," he said. Students are often academically like any other student. If we have a weakness in the system, as in
advising or in course selection, it affects everyone."
Tacha said some of the suggestions might be incorporated in a report due to be released around November from the University of Oklahoma and movement of Undergraduate Education.
The committee on athletics was formed last fall after schools in the Pacific 10 Conference were caught up in a controversy over national Collegiate Athletic Association.
"We became concerned here," Shankel said. "We wanted to make sure that kind of thing wasn't happening at the University of Kansas, and we
wanted to minimize the chances of it happening here."
THE ALLEGATIONS hit home last spring when the Kansas City Times and later the Kansan reported that KU athletes were shirking academics for advisers who were steering players into easy classes to keep them eligible for play.
Shankel said, however, "The committee didn't start as an investigative body. We didn't into any and no one was going to anybody else. We're just making sure we have good athletes in the context of a good academic program."
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