On Friday, Nov. 10, the Cornell Water Competency Graduation Requirement was updated according to “more modern water safety competency based on industry standards.” The new test requires students to ...

Cornell’s required swim test, which has been administered separately to males and females for the past 92 years, will be made coed starting next fall semester. According to Fred Debruyn, director of ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- For generations of University of Chicago college freshmen, the awkward experience of orientation week included lining up in swimwear with a mixed-gender group of strangers, waiting ...

Subject: Race on Campus: Why Colleges Are Dropping Their Swim Tests Welcome to Race on Campus. At one point or another, about a quarter of American colleges required students to pass a swim test.

The purpose of college is often questioned. Is college meant to train someone to be a competitive job applicant? Maybe the point of college truly is just to expand your horizons and to experience ...

“My name is Bonnie and I’m not going to graduate college. Unless I can learn to swim three laps in a 25-yard pool.” For most Columbia students, this doesn’t pose much of a problem- they hop in the ...