Syracuse is being heavily scrutinized for for its paltry approach to academic integrity.

Inside Higher Ed reports.

‘The Bare Minimum’

When Syracuse University last week announced the resignation of its athletics director and impending retirement of its revered basketball coach, the university’s supporters and even some of its critics said the moves showed the university was finally owning up to the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s allegations that Syracuse failed to properly monitor its basketball program for over a decade, leading to academic fraud, improper payment to athletes by a booster and failure to follow its own drug testing policies.

But some faculty members and critics of big-time college sports aren’t convinced the university is sufficiently punishing those who share the blame for the fraud.

“It doesn’t look like they’re doing much of anything,” said Allen Sack, a business professor at the University of New Haven and the former president of the Drake Group, an organization pushing for more emphasis on academics in college sports. “Or they’re doing the bare minimum, just doing what you have to do to kind of imitate a semblance of trying to do something.”