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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yet the students on those teams are precisely the type of students most colleges and universities want.  Why?  Because those scholar athletes bring something special to the table.  They are leaders.  They are determined.  They understand the concepts of effort and self-regulation.  They get along well with others because they are used to working on a team.  They work hard because they understand that strong input results in strong output.  It would be extremely shortsighted for any university to start cutting sports teams.[/quote]

As a faculty member who has taught thousands of student, I can assure you that student athletes are among the weakest performers in the classroom. Not just because their time or mental energy is taken up by their sport, but also because they are not as intelligent, on average, as non-athlete students. Many of them are actually far, far slower mentally.[/quote]

You must teach at a very low-ranked school.  And I agree with a PP that you don't sound like a legitimate "faculty member."[/quote]

Athlete-students have overwhelmingly been in the lowest-performing group in my classes for the past 20 years. Only track/cross-country students seem to break this mold.  Even with the extra money that the school spends on special study halls and tutors for these athlete-students, they struggle with understanding content and keeping up with assignments. The two issues seem to be that they are at a university that is more challenging than they can handle, or that they lack intellectual motivation. [/quote]

I come from a family of academics. The only one who talks like you do about her athlete students is the one who could never get tenure anywhere  and lived her entire professional life as an adjunct.[/quote]

Wrong.  You also reveal that you do not come from a family of academics. There are adjuncts, and then, separately, there are tenure-track and non-tenure track professors.

Or, maybe you just get confused, easily. My bet is that you were the athlete in your family (siblings were the brains?), and your kid has followed in your footsteps. [/quote]

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