Students' Dreams of Big-Time Sports Unnerve a Wary Faculty
At U. of California at San Diego, an itch for Division I collides with a financing falloff… The Tritons don’t even have an invitation from a Division I conference, an NCAA requirement for moving up. But that technicality hasn’t stopped a group of undergraduates, tired of a subdued campus life and hungry for a sports-driven sense of community, from moving ahead in their quest to acquire Division I cachet… But the road to Division I sometimes leads to mixed results. The University of California at Davis, for instance, began its move eight years ago, bolstered by student fees. But in 2010, just three years after completing its transition to Division I, statewide budget cuts forced the Aggies to eliminate four sports.
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by Libby Sander, The Chronicle of Higher Education.