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Research from our very own Brian Cadman shows the correlation between a student’s academic progress rate (APR) and the job security of college football and men’s college basketball coaches.
The paper was the subject of a story by Jake New in this week’s Inside Higher Ed. He begins:
Big-time college football and men’s basketball coaches whose teams meet a minimum threshold for academic success, as measured by the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Academic Progress Rate, are far less likely to be fired at the end of a season, according to a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
But there is little evidence that an increase in APR beyond that initial threshold can help advance a coach’s career.
Read the complete article on InsideHigherEd.com.