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The HBCU Advocate


Volume 2 Number 1 Career and Business Opportunities


ASU: First Master’s Degree in NCAA Compliance


Delaware State FROM PAGE 3


and earlier departures from North America for the flight back to Brazil for the winter correlate strongly with a more severe hurricane season.


The DSU associate professor has been researching Veery species phenology – breeding, hatching and migration – since 1998 at White Clay Creek Park, located in New Castle County near Newark, Delaware.


“Veery come up from Brazil and Alcorn State is offering what


it says is the nation’s first master’s degree in NCAA Compliance and


Academic Progress Rate


Reporting (APR) – Non Teaching Track. The program is being offered by the Department of Health, Physical Education, and


Recreation (HPER). Athletic compliance officer


positions are vital to any college sports program. From avoiding recruiting violations to ensuring player academic compliance, this position can be the key to avoiding an educational institution’s embarrassment or worse.


While keeping the student athlete’s best


interest in mind, they ensure the university successfully adheres to NCAA rules.


chairperson


Dr. Johnny Thomas, of the HPER


Department added, “The aim of this new hybrid program is to prepare and develop more knowledgeable practitioners for the ever-increasing focus area of intercollegiate student-athlete success and program compliance. One of our goals is to become a leader in this field.”


The Department will also offer


a post-baccalaureate certificate program in NCAA Compliance and Academic Progress Reporting.


Scholarship Watch


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nest in North America – including Delaware – but typically have only time to raise one brood (lay a few eggs) before they have to return to South America,” Dr. Heckscher said. “Because other bird species are able to raise more than one brood during the breeding season, I began to wonder why does the Veery species only produce one brood during that period.”


migration


Armed with breeding and data


he had already


collected since 1998, Dr. Heckscher began correlating it with hurricane data for that period. Specifically, the researcher looked at the Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) index – which is generally thought to be the best measure of seasonal hurricane activity. ACE measures the strength and duration of all named storms in


a hurricane season. The Veery species typically


arrives annually in North America in mid-spring and the females begin laying their eggs in early May. During those seasons in which the Veery perceives severe hurricanes await their migration across the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, their breeding season is shorter, enabling an earlier


departure from North


America to give the songbird more time to circumvent extreme weather conditions such as high winds and torrential downpours.


Dr. Heckscher discovered that during years the breeding season was longer, it less severe According


to


hurricane the


coincided article,


with


seasons. only


three times during the 18-year data collection period did the research find an extended breeding period in which the Veery species raised more than one brood; those took place before lesser hurricane- seasons.


In addition, the research


data indicated that the laying of a larger brood was also an indicator of a more severe hurricane season as well.


July/August 2018


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