Drake University will host a conference March 24-25 for faculty members from universities across the country who are determined to devise a proposal to reform collegiate sports. Ericson conducted a similar conference last October, but the attendees were unable to reach agreement on a reform proposal. The Way Out - Round Two. Saturday's sessions also will take place in Levitt Hall.
All sessions are open to the public.
Among the participants will be Linda Bensel-Meyers, director of composition in the English Department at the University of Tennessee, where an investigation is under way into allegations of academic fraud and plagiarism in the athletic department. That document states that athletes had submitted papers that were either co-written or entirely written by tutors hired by the athletic department. She said she also favors Ericson's proposal to disclose athletes' academic records. By making scholarship athletes' courses, majors, academic advisers and instructors public record, light would be shined on the educational enterprise of college sports, Ericson said. Grades would remain private, however, he added.