Arne Duncan is proposing that college basketball teams with graduation rates of under 40% be banned from postseason play.
Link to USA Today story:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/2010-03-16-grad-rate-proposal_N.htm
[UCF Today Note: Dr. Richard Lapchick, mentioned in the USA Today story, is Chair of the DeVos Sport Business Management Graduate Program in the College of Business Administration at the University of Central Florida. Lapchick also directs UCF’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, is the author of 14 books and the annual Racial and Gender Report Card, and is the Director of the National Consortium for Academics and Sport. He is also an ESPN.com regular commentator on issues of diversity in sport.]