SEALs and special warfare combat crewman will face slightly higher standards than EOD techs and fleet divers in the Navy's ...

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 ...

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.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- This past Tuesday thousands of seniors at the University of North Carolina graduated. Almost all of have two things in common. They wore the distinctive, pale blue cap and gown.

“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 ...

NORTH MIAMI – In an attempt to recruit minority officers, the police department in North Miami, Fla., has dropped swimming as a required skill because it says not enough potential black applicants ...

On a recent Friday morning, a line of bathing-suit-clad students stood beside a campus swimming pool, waiting to jump in. They had come to persuade the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that ...