Ohio U. Debates Merits of Athlete-Only Academic Center

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The Ohio University community continues to go back and forth over an academic center built solely for athletes.

The Athens, Ohio university’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors denounced the Perry and Sandy Sook Academic Center in 2017, about a year before the building opened in October 2018. The AAUP was opposed to the center being controlled by the athletic department, rather than an academic office. According to The New Political, the opposition continues today, as the AAUP doesn’t believe that the center is in the best interest of student-athletes.

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