UCLA Basketball Official Asked To Change Player's Grade: Report

UCLA basketball’s academic coordinator was asked by an assistant coach to change a player’s grade so he could remain eligible to stay on the team, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, but the school has said that no academic misconduct occurred.

Will Collier, the academic coordinator who left the University in January, told the Chronicle that he called assistant coach Duane Broussard to let him know that a player made a C- in a communications class, when he needed a B to stay on the team.

Broussard told Collier to approach the professor about changing the grade, Collier told the Chronicle.

“To insinuate that I would pressure anyone to do something unethical or not follow policy is, quite frankly, insulting and just flat wrong,” Broussard told the Chronicle in response to the allegations.

UCLA spokeswoman Christina A. Rivera added to the Chronicle that “We never feel pressure (to change grades); this is a special place. I wouldn’t work here if I did.”

• Read the full report from the Chronicle of Higher Education here.