Florida State is appealing part of an NCAA punishment that would strip the school of victories in 10 sports, including as many as 14 in football. The university president called the penalty "excessive and inappropriate." ...more

March 17, 2009

Florida State received four years' probation from the NCAA on Friday and will lose scholarships in football and forfeit games because of an academic cheating scandal. ...more

March 6, 2009

TALLAHASSEE – Florida State will reduce scholarships in several sports and has placed its athletic program on two-year probation in the wake of an academic cheating scandal involving more than 50 athletes. ...more

February 14, 2008

Following claims by the wife of a University of South Florida football star that she did her husband's online coursework, the university is asking faculty leaders to study how to better protect the academic integrity of such courses. ...more

January 11, 2008

Regarding "Official: Few At FSU Cheated" (Metro, Dec. 20): Something must be wrong with me. I can't seem to get excited about the news that some athlete-students at Florida State University cheated on an online music history course. Why an athlete needs to know anything about music history in the first place baffles me. Why not just let athletes be athletes, music students can study music history, and the other students can study subjects relevant to their major? After all, the athletes are only there to provide entertainment for the alumni, make money for the school, and allow the coaches to live the high life with their huge salaries. The athletes are not there to impress anyone with their musical knowledge. ...more

December 26, 2007

A poorly administered online course and sloppy oversight of "one rogue tutor" combined to "contaminate" a class in which as many as 50 student-athletes may be penalized for cheating, Florida State University President T.K. Wetherell said Friday. ...more

December 22, 2007

Florida State University leaders reviewed the computer records of as many as 900 students enrolled in the same online music history course in which some student-athletes are suspected of cheating, the university's provost said Wednesday. ...more

December 20, 2007