{"id":8283,"date":"2019-06-26T20:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T00:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/06\/26\/are-the-ncaas-apr-scores-fair\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:35:13","slug":"are-the-ncaas-apr-scores-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/are-the-ncaas-apr-scores-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the NCAA\u2019s APR scores fair?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monique Ositelu, a 2011 Furman graduate and senior policy analyst with the Education Policy program at New America, has written an opinion piece for \u201c<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/diverseeducation.com\/article\/147792\/\">Diverse: Issues in Higher Education<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u201d about the NCAA and its Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores. In the piece, she writes that the \u201cNCAA needs to retire the APR metric and instead use accountability tools that level the playing field between rich and low-resourced colleges and universities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ositelu was a standout performer in track and cross country at Furman, earning All-Southern Conference honors and being named to the league\u2019s Academic Honor Roll. After graduating from Furman with a degree in psychology, she earned a master\u2019s in public administration from the University of Texas at El Paso and a Ph.D. in higher education Florida State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monique Ositelu, a 2011 Furman graduate and senior policy analyst with the Education Policy program at New America, has written an opinion piece for \u201cDiverse: Issues in Higher Education\u201d about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,48,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-psychology","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}