Wednesday, June 18, 2014

On What Basis?

I'd been wondering for some time how...

Given its remarkable success at helping student-athletes succeed at such an academically rigorous school as UNC, why did Bradley Bethel feel it necessary to inform the new Chancellor, Carol Folt, “many student-athletes who were specially admitted whose academic preparedness is so low they cannot succeed here?”

By what measure was he arriving at such a concern? After all, UNC-CH has suffered remarkably few (any?) academic casualties among it's revenue sport student-athlete population. How was this supposed academic unpreparedness manifesting itself?