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...Bowen also suggested that recruited athletes be tested not only for admission, but also for their academic performance once they are already on campus...
...Bowen said he was “the principal inventor” of the academic index, a computation of several factors used to determine an incoming athlete’s eligibility. This helped answer the question of who was qualified for admission, but it didn’t answer the problem of representativeness...
...isn’t enough to look at the credentials of people when they come in,” Bowen said. “You have to look at how people do after they’re there...
...Game, recruited athletes—especially male athletes who play the “high profile” sports: football, basketball, and hockey—are not academically representative of their classes. They concentrate disproportionately in the social sciences, and their class ranks are, on average, disproportionately low. Though Bowen and Levin argue that the time commitment teams demand of their athletes should be further reduced, their statistics show that other groups with similar commitments—including non-recruited, “walk-on” athletes—do not under perform the way recruited athletes do. Musicians...
...Bowen said he is aware that the books don’t necessarily drive changes in policy, like the recent reductions in recruits and implementation of forced rest rules...