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#10: The Results Are In:
+ NCAA VP of External Affairs Tim Buckley to Front Office Sports’ Amanda Christovich on the election: “We’ve had productive, substantive conversations with members of both parties in recent months and are optimistic an opportunity exists to advance a targeted, bipartisan solution to ensure a stable, equitable, and sustainable future for college sports for years to come." (link)
+ A Democratic congressional aide also tells Christovich: “It’s a bad day to be a college athlete. Great day to be a college president or conference commissioner.” Christovich also reports that “Republican aides, as well as Buckley, have said they believed that they had made headway in convincing several Democrats to swing toward an anti-employment provision. Either way, one Republican aide said there’s still an expectation that any college sports bill would have to be bipartisan, even if the House ends up with a Republican majority. But that aide is confident several Democrats have become more amenable to an anti-employment provision in recent months, and doesn’t think the issue is as partisan as others have described it.” (link)
+ The Washington Post’s Jesse Dougherty shares this from a Democratic staffer on Capitol Hill following the election: "From a pure business sense, the NCAA should be doing backflips in Indianapolis." (link) |
#9: Goucher selects Hartford CC (NJCAA) HC Debbie Holtschneider as its Men’s and Women’s Tennis HC. (link) |
#8: Division III will work with NCAA Digital and Hudl to stream all contests for this fall’s Field Hockey, Men's and Women’s Soccer championships, in addition to all Women’s Volleyball postseason events before the quarterfinals and the Men’s and Women’s Cross Country championships. VP of DIII Louise McCleary: “The Division III membership prioritized branding and marketing of the division, and through the support of the governance structure, we have been able to work with TNT Sports and Hudl to provide greater exposure for our Division III championships.” In total, 211 contests across Field Hockey, Soccer and Volleyball will be streamed. (link)
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#7: Roger Williams hires Babson Men’s Ice Hockey AC Chris Hall as the Hawks’ first HC. (link)
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#6: McDaniel unveiled plans to upgrade the Track & Field space at Kenneth R. Gill Stadium this spring. The $1.7M renovation is expected to be completed in the fall. The upgraded track will be named in honor of former AD/professor emeritus Dick Clower and the field area will be named after late provost/coach Sam Case. (link)
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#5: Webster will close its nine campuses on military bases across the country, with five to close next month and the remainder to close at the end of the academic year. This comes as almost all military enrollment shift to online and the university faces a significant budget shortfall. (link)
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#4: NYU Softball HC Now-Allah James has accepted the same position at North Carolina Central (DI). (link)
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#3: Willamette Asst. AD of Communications Robert McKinney moves on to become Sports Information Director at Evergreen State (NAIA) after serving on staff since 2006-07, while Assoc. AD Leslie Shevlin departs after 14 years to take on a new role as Senior Assoc. AD at Williams. (link)
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#2: Here are the latest NPI rankings for Field Hockey (link), Football (link), Men’s Soccer (link), Women’s Soccer (link) and Women’s Volleyball (link). As a reminder, NPI data will be released daily in the week leading up to selection day, with Field Hockey and Men's and Women's Soccer selection shows next week.
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#1: The American Enterprise Institute has ranked more than 400 current and former college presidents who served between 2000–01 and 2022–23 on how well they improved access, affordability, and student success over the course of their presidency. The rankings reveal that some presidents were “superstars” at improving access, affordability and student success. These presidents cut tuition costs, expanded access to low-income and racially underrepresented student groups, and increased graduation rates. But some presidents performed poorly in these areas, with a handful overseeing steep declines in graduation rates, affordability, and access. According to the AEI’s Cody Christensen, the “wide spread across the rankings suggests that higher education boards should begin using performance metrics to hold college presidents accountable for the changes in the outcomes of their students.” The report also found that 20.1% of all current presidents are female, 79.9% of all current presidents are white, 9.7% are black, 2.2% are Hispanic, 8.2% are Asian and the average length of tenure is 7.6 years. For all presidents during the course of the study, the average tenure was 7.95 years. Christensen: “The goal of these rankings is to provide high-level, publicly available information that highlights the best leaders, similar to how public information about private companies (such as stock prices, quarterly revenues, and growth projections) is used to judge the best leaders of private companies. The rankings also reveal which college presidents are consistently low performers, helping oversight organizations keep institutional leaders accountable.” Full study and rankings, which for DIII leaders is topped by UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive. (link - summary & methodology, link - rankings)
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