As the NCAA continues to tighten restrictions on unregulated preparatory schools and high-school diploma mills, one university is taking matters into its own hands.
The athletics director at George Washington University has told coaches to expect increased scrutiny from the university’s admissions office when they recruit athletes from schools that are not regulated by state agencies, according to an article.
A Post investigation this spring found that, over the past several years, George Washington had recruited several men’s basketball players who had attended an allegedly phony high school to push up their grades and gain admission to the university. Some of those players helped the Colonials to a top-10 national ranking this past season.
In addition, a faculty committee plans to recommend this week that the university’s admissions office not provide “rubber-stamp admissions” for athletes and that faculty members give no special assistance to athletes once they arrive on the campus.
In the next few weeks, the NCAA plans to release a list of preparatory schools with dubious academic programs. Students who have attended those schools will not be allowed to participate in college sports unless the NCAA rules that individuals’ transcripts from the schools are valid |