[OT] Colgate adds athletic scholarships

[Jay Wang 99]

Interesting news ...

HAMILTON, N.Y. (AP) -- Breaking from its long-standing tradition of awarding financial aid solely on need, Colgate University announced Monday that it would begin offering a limited number of athletic scholarships as part of a plan ``to enhance excellence in programs across the campus.''

The policy, approved Saturday by the school's board of trustees, will go into effective with the class entering in fall 2004.


http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-colgateathletics&prov=ap&type=lgns

[ugarte]

Jay Wang '99 wrote:

Interesting news ...

HAMILTON, N.Y. (AP) -- Breaking from its long-standing tradition of awarding financial aid solely on need, Colgate University announced Monday that it would begin offering a limited number of athletic scholarships as part of a plan ``to enhance excellence in programs across the campus.''

It's almost Orwellian. "To enhance excellence in programs across the campus" = "win more games".  If they wanted a broad enhancing of excellence, they would award academic scholarships for students with a commitment to English, Music, Physics and Political Science.



Post Edited (10-20-03 18:03)

[jtwcornell91]

Boy, it's a good thing they turned down that invitation to join the Ivy League. ::rolleyes::

[Will]

I guess that means that some people's dreams of the ECAC being an "all-academic" conference is officially down the tubes.

[Josh '99]

Come on, though, let's be fair.  Scholarships or no, Colgate is still, academically speaking, head and shoulders above the vast majority of DI hockey schools.

[Jim Hyla]

[Q]Dovidio said the change would reduce the number of recruited athletes by about 25 percent. Roster size was not expected to decrease because walk-ons and other students who can play Division I sports but who are not recruited athletes will still be among the students attending Colgate, he said. The change also is expected to have another effect.

``Winning teams are phenomenal for school spirit. So the more winning teams we can have, the better it is for all of our students and faculty,'' Colgate president Rebecca Chopp said.

Chopp said the university wasn't adding any money to its scholarship pool, only rearranging it. [/Q]There is the rub. Start Athletic Scholarships and therefore have to recruit fewer athletes, and if you are not adding to the scholarship pool, then the money for those athletes comes at the expense of funds going to other students (who would receive it on the basis of need).

So, more money to athletes, less to other needy students, and fewer otherwise deserving students able to attend Clarkson.

Is this great or what?

[Al DeFlorio]

Jim Hyla '67 wrote:

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So, more money to athletes, less to other needy students, and fewer otherwise deserving students able to attend Clarkson.

That's it!  It's all a Colgate plot to shrink the student body at Clarkson! ::nut::

[ursusminor]

Yes. All of those ECAC CU schools are so d@mn similar, I could never tell them apart. :-D ;-)



Post Edited (10-21-03 04:29)

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

At least CU schools don't get confused with liberal arts schools in Iowa :-D

JH

[min]

colgate turned down an invitation to join the ivy league? was that one of the "what they were thinking?" moments in colgate's history, or did the decision (to not join) make sense at the time?

i learned a new thing today, and it's not even 7am!

[ugarte]

Actually, it was 7:06.  You wasted too much of the morning and I don't know how you will catch up.



Post Edited (10-22-03 11:00)

[crodger1]

big red apple wrote:

Actually, it was 7:06.  Your wasted too much of the morning and I don't know how you will catch up.

Wasted? Been out drinking too much last night? :-)

[ugarte]

crodge2k wrote:

big red apple wrote:

Actually, it was 7:06.  Your wasted too much of the morning and I don't know how you will catch up.

Wasted? Been out drinking too much last night? :-)

How the hell did you respond with the typo intact?  I edited that within seconds of my original post!

[jtwcornell91]

Min-Wei Lin wrote:
colgate turned down an invitation to join the ivy league?

Oops, now I'm spreading the rumor.  It was a joke, in reference to an oft-repeated (by Colgate students) myth.

[crodger1]

Umm, perhaps I spend too much time online and just caught it at the right moment

After all, it only took 20 minutes for TMQ to get pulled from ESPN.