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Scalise says that he and the other athletic directors are under a mandate from the Ivy Presidents to consider ways to reduce recruits, raise academic standards, and at the same time remain competitive.
“We athletic directors are grappling with this, and it’s really hard,” Scalise says. “It’s like building a building on budget, on time, and with high quality.”
Lewis decries the “excesses” of many teams in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which he says include “absurd compromises of academic standards, scandalously low graduation rates and athletic participation becoming essentially a full-time job.”
But sports like hockey or squash compete regularly on the national level, and the imposition of new admissions policies may hurt their ability to do so. The Ivy ban on athletic scholarships can therefore be “a source of tension.”
In hockey, for example, Harvard competes in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) against scholarship schools like Boston College. Along with the other three Ivies in the ECAC, Harvard struggles to maintain both its academic standards and the competitive balance in the conference.