Athletics and Education

A Big 10 approach to academia

• Purdue University is an institution of higher learning with a diverse population whose students are hardworking, dedicated, and focused.

Even today, professors continue to guide their students through a collaborative learning environment.

Many great athletes, who excel at both sports and academics, call Purdue home.

Purdue demands the best out of athletes on and off the field. Therefore, Student-Athletes rely on the Inter-collegiate Athletic

Facility (IAF) to aid them in their studies.

At the IAF student-athletes engage closely with tutors. At the end of each session, the tutors fill out a form that tracks the student’s

progression.

Students-athletes have access to the IAF throughout the day. This allows for students to work profusely for extended periods of

times.

If the student-athlete is below the required 3.0, it is mandatory for the student to meet with a tutor everyday of the week.

Whether it is working in small groups or focusing on one-on-one attention, the The IAF offers an array of study locations.

All in all, the IAF is a positive place for student-athletes to catch up on work, get help with work, or just hang out and past by time. The IAF has played a major role

in continuing Purdue’s identity on raising successful student-athletes.

Work Cited:• Purdue University Women's Tennis. 2010. Photograph. West Lafayette, IN.

Web. 27 June 2010. <http://www.collegetennisonline.com/PurdueUniversity-W-Tennis/Home.aspx>.

• Vellinger, Dick. Purdue Football Game. Photograph. Purdue University Athletics, West Lafayette, IN.

• Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan with Map. 1937. Photograph. GeorgePalmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers. Web. 25 June 2010.http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/earhart&CISOPTR=728&CISOBOX=1&REC=7>.