6/24/2023 0 Comments Aptus discoveryThis academic service provides a 30-minute interactive personal assessment using tablet technology and behavioral science, evaluating how student-athletes learn, both on the field and in the classroom. This summer, Liberty became the first Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) school in the country to partner with APTUS Discovery. “Field hockey was at 3.58 cumulatively, and volleyball was at 3.43, so it’s really, really exciting to see.” University adopts new tool to enhance learning “Our women’s tennis program had the best season on record on the court, and then when you look and see what they did in the classroom, it’s absolutely fantastic,” Beitz said, noting that the team maintained an average GPA of 3.89 last fall, raising its cumulative GPA for the year to 3.65. “Our student-athletes are not only winning championships on the field of competition, but they are also winning in the classroom,” Beitz said, noting that positive results in academics and athletics often go hand-in-hand. For the fifth straight year, the average cumulative GPA rose, to an all-time high of 3.14. Over the last five years, Liberty Athletics has met or exceeded NCAA standards as defined by the Academic Progress Rate (APR) initiative.įor the 2014-15 academic year, 17 out of 20 teams in Liberty’s NCAA Division I Athletics program boasted overall GPAs of 3.0 or better, with 34 student-athletes maintaining a perfect 4.0 GPA. In 2011, Liberty became the 13th school in the country to earn the National Association of Academic Advisors (N4A) Program Certification, demonstrating that its academic support unit has the knowledge, practices, and procedures in place to help student-athletes stay on track to graduate. As they move through their years here, we remove some of those supports to help them stand on their own two feet and be really successful on their own.” When our student-athletes come to our campus, we provide a tremendous amount of support to help them be successful. There’s a lot of scaffolding, but as the building starts to go up, the scaffolding is removed. “It’s kind of like all of the buildings that you see here on campus. “With our academic enhancement program, we have truly taken the opportunity to dive in and invest in each one of our student-athletes,” Beitz said. She compares building a well-rounded student-athlete to constructing a new facility in Liberty’s ever-changing academic and athletic landscape. “First, you must be a student, and then you must be an athlete,” Beitz said. “It definitely sets us apart from other institutions because we want to ensure that whole-person development.”īeitz said that being a student-athlete is the equivalent of balancing two full-time jobs. “At Liberty University, we do a fantastic job of helping our student-athletes grow academically, athletically, socially, and spiritually,” she said. Open/Close Navigation Explore Article CategoriesĪthletics Academic success mirrors on-field performance September 28, 2015Īccording to Kristie Beitz, senior associate athletics director for academic affairs, there are four pillars for student-athlete success.
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