NCAA Meeting Expected to Consider HBCU Concerns: Board members of the NCAA Division I are expected Thursday to formally consider ways to help historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) address student-athlete academic performance, including boosting NCAA financial assistance to academic programs for athletic departments at HBCUs, say sources close to the intercollegiate athletics organization.
Details of the ideas on the board’s agenda were not disclosed by NCAA officials. However, the idea of boosting aid to academic programs aimed at student-athletes has been a widely debated topic among HBCU presidents, athletic directors and some NCAA Division I officials since it was advanced last year by Hampton University President Dr. William Harvey.
