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Should Division III monitor academic performance?

A report earlier this week from an ongoing Mellon Foundation-funded study of student-athletes' academic performance was interesting in its own right - particularly to the subset of the Division III membership that voluntarily is participating in the effort and submitting data for use in assessing the "representativeness" of athletes compared to those schools' student bodies.

However, for the much larger segment of Division III's approximately 450 active and provisional members that are not participating in the College Sports Project study, its primary importance is as a reminder of the pledge all of those schools have made in the division's philosophy statement to the concept of representativeness.

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