In addition, universities shall provide academic support for all students, and abandon the practice of providing academic support on the basis of athletic status. Universities publicly disclose the academic major, academic adviser, courses listed by academic major, general education requirements, and electives, including course GPA and instructor for all students. No individual's grades will be disclosed. The university will disclose for each intercollegiate athletic team the courses enrolled in by team members, the average of the grades given in the course, and instructor of the course at the end of the semester. Because the Buckley Amendment is invoked to prevent academic accountability, disclosure may require a challenge to the amendment and to the way universities interpret it.
Universities reduce the number of intercollegiate athletic contests.
Until such time that scholarships are eliminated, faculty senates should ensure that athletes who face contradictory demands from coaches and faculty can defer to the latter without losing financial aid. Recommendations 3 and 5 would, in the opinion of the Irascible Professor, go a long way towards eliminating the abuses prevalent in college and university athletics today. They would help preserve the positive aspects of intercollegiate athletics, while returning these sports to a truly amateur status. To these five proposals, the IP would add a sixth. Namely, that colleges and universities should not be allowed to recruit individual athletes to their programs.