• Remove the management of the academic counselors in the Academic Success Program from the Athletic Department, transferring it to the dean’s office in the College of LS&A. ASP counselors do “excellent” work and become athletes’ second families, said [a member of the committee reforming athletics]. But their advice has to be aligned with athletes’ post-graduation goals.
• Remove the task of hearing appeals of student athletes who wish to stay academically eligible to participate in sports from the Committee on Academic Performance. That faculty body has come under scrutiny on campus because its members are offered free trips to attend Michigan football bowl games, courtesy of the Athletic Department.
These are a couple of the recommendations a University of Michigan faculty committee has put forward in order to clean up various athletic scandals, or scandals in the making, there. For background on the ticket business, go here. UD figures the recommendation about this means to put pressure on the conflict of interest-challenged members of that committee so they’ll give up their precious freebie.