Challenging The NCAA: HBCUs Say No More Discrimination In Academic Rules
Lawyers filed a lawsuit against NCAA on Thursday over its system to enforce academic performance, which allegedly discriminates against Black athletes and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
For more than 50 years, the NCAA has imposed academic rules to make sure college athletes aren't just athletes, and the decades-long process has generated plenty of controversy.
Critics claim the academic standards, and the penalties for not meeting them, discriminate against Black college athletes and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Now, lawyers have filed a class action, civil rights lawsuit demanding the NCAA's current system, called the Academic Performance Program, be abolished.
Putting HBCUs at a disadvantage
The APP requires college teams to hit certain academic benchmarks. If a team comes up short of the benchmark, which uses a, the punishment can range from having practice time cut, to a ban on postseason play.
