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November-7-2014.-Volume-LXI-Number-10

By KATHERINE MANGAN S ix-figure incentive bonuses for coaches and athletic directors whose players excel on the field have long been a fixture in big-time college athletics. But unless those players are also cutting it in the classroom, the University System of Maryland will no longer pay out. The decision by the Maryland Board of Regents to tie athletic incentive bonuses to academic performance for new Division I coaches systemwide comes at a time of heightened scrutiny for athletics departments nationwide.

Concerns over academic fraud are nothing new, but the intensity ramped up considerably in October with the release, just two days before the Maryland decision, of a 136-page report detailing how athletes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had been steered into sham classes for nearly two decades. The revelation that so many advisers, professors, and administrators had either gone along with the scheme or looked the other way prompted a flurry of worried calls from regents on some campuses. Experts urged college officials to watch more closely for possible signs of academic fraud, including courses that cater disproportionately to athletes and indepe...