Executive Summaries:
Academic Standards
Academic Standards
The university maintains substantial conformity with the operating principle of academic standards as documented in the self-study items. The university proudly applies the same academic standards for its student-athletes as for non-student-athletes. In consultation with Undergraduate Admissions and other university offices, Intercollegiate Athletics grants a few “special athletics admits.” The university also admits some other students who do not meet general admissions requirements through the Freshman Frontier Program and the Educational Opportunity Program. Marquette’s Freshman Frontier Program admitted 88 freshmen for the fall of 2003 and the Educational Opportunity Program admits about 70 freshmen annually. Marquette’s “special athletic admits” total only between four and seven students in any given year. After a student is admitted, the same criteria – from retention to graduation – are used for all students, athletes or not. For the past three academic years, the graduation rate for student-athletes has been comparable to that of non-student-athletes, and in two of these three years, student-athletes’ graduation rates were higher than the graduation rate for all university students. Academic Support
The university maintains substantial conformity with the operating principle of academic support as documented in the self-study items. Three members of Intercollegiate Athletics are responsible for providing academic support and advice to student-athletes. They report to the athletics director who, in turn, reports to the university’s senior vice president. Services include: academic advising, tutoring, success skills instruction, mandatory study halls, orientation, academic progress monitoring, assistance for students with special needs, learning assessment, mentoring, assistance for at-risk students, and post-eligibility programs. Scheduling
The university maintains substantial conformity with the operating principle of student-athlete academic scheduling as documented in the self-study items. Missing classes for competition is inevitable for student-athletes, and the university does not have a standard policy on class absences, instead leaving the matter to individual instructors. Intercollegiate Athletics actively works to minimize the impact of competition-forced absences on the learning process for student-athletes. The university has established written policies for students on this matter and makes these policies known to the student-athletes in several ways. The university has coordinated a system of priority class registration for student-athletes to help minimize absences. In addition, Intercollegiate Athletics seeks to arrange practices to accommodate student-athletes’ academic schedules. The department works with the student-athletes and their instructors to resolve any absence conflicts and provides Class Absence Notification forms so the student-athletes may advise their instructors at the beginning of each semester of all potential competition-related absences during the semester. The associate director of athletics for academic support and student programs monitors absences of student-athletes and reports them to Conference USA in conjunction with the faculty representative. (Marquette was a member of Conference USA until July 2005.)
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