Judge Stephen Murphy of Federal District Court in Detroit ruled in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and a group representing college students.
Second, Swarbrick said Te'o's leadership skills and how he represents college football should be considered.
Maggie Scott, a director of the Association of Colleges, which represents college principals, said: "There is anxiety over BTecs.
Patti M. Peterson, an official at the American Council on Education, which represents college and university presidents, said "trying to take very different systems of higher education and measure across them" is a doomed effort.
The suit contends that Forstmann bet more than $600,000 — in amounts from $2,000 to $23,000 — on the men's basketball tournament from 2004 to 2007 while IMG was representing college basketball coaches.
Read more: The £16,000 "Oxford price-tag" will cement the university as a bastion of privilege The signatories, each representing college populations of up to 400 undergraduates, were also concerned that the proposed fees hike could affect admissions.
Russell Ramirez, a lawyer for the Texas Faculty Association, an organization that represents college and university professors, said that selling degrees was a secular, commercial act — akin to selling a mattress — and should be subject to regulation.
"It is misleading that Rolling Stone chose one extreme case to represent college sexual assault, when, in reality, we know that sexual assault presents itself through a range of experiences".
Other advocacy groups representing college students also criticized proposals to place a variable interest rate on the consolidated student loans, an idea President Bush proposed two years ago which has drawn the support of some Democrats.
