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It is the job of universities with big-time sports programs — not the National Collegiate Athletic Association — to ensure that athletes are taking real courses and earning high-quality degrees, the NCAA’s president told a roomful of public university presidents and other administrators Sunday. Mark Emmert, the association’s president, said that significant increases in the academic preparation of freshmen at many colleges and universities have put athletes — whose academic profile has changed little — at a growing disadvantage, creating a “mismatch” on “a lot of campuses.” “It’s not the role of a national athletic association to say what an English course has to be to have integrity,” he said. “Some people somehow think the NCAA ought to be able to walk onto campus” and play that role. “But that’s your job; you have to make sure you’re doing it.” –Inside Higher Ed, Read More