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In choosing a president, NCAA should assess graduation rates

Boston Globe - Editorial

April 6, 2010

In seeking a new chief, the NCAA should be looking at campus leaders like Penn State President Graham Spanier, whose football team has an 85 percent graduation rate. Conversely, a name that should be crossed out is University of Georgia President Michael Adams, whose basketball team graduates a paltry 18 percent. Several private-college officials are said to be under consideration from institutions such as Notre Dame, where the basketball and football teams have respective graduation rates of 100 percent and 96 percent.

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