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Turner College's Jasmine Bordere Records First A-Level Journal Publication

Back in early September of 2025 Turner Business reported on a study by the Turner College's Jasmine Bordere and Frank Mixon, along with Syracuse University's Shane Sanders, investigating the link between overall athletic success at the institution level and various indicators of the quality of institutions’ incoming freshmen. More specifically, the study explores the association between institutions’ Learfield Cup performances, which capture success across all of an institution's sports programs, and the SAT scores, ACT scores and high school GPAs of their incoming freshman classes. Econometric results presented in this study suggest that marginal improvements in an institution’s overall athletic performance across all men’s and women’s sports are associated with freshmen SAT and ACT scores that are, on average, upwards of 21 and 0.53 points higher, respectively, as well as with a high school grade point average across the incoming freshman class that is about 0.1 points higher. 
Checking back in with the authors we learned that the econometric model in the current version of the study, which is now forthcoming in the A-rated Applied Economics, includes measures for institutional type and endowment per student. Their latest results suggest that the median SAT scores of private institutions' incoming freshmen exceed those of their public university counterparts by 152 to 162 points, and that an institution's endowment per student is positively and significantly associated with the median SAT and ACT scores of its incoming freshmen. When these new controls are considered, marginal improvements in an institution’s overall athletic performance across all men’s and women’s sports are associated with freshmen SAT scores that are, on average, upwards of 27 points higher. The results regarding median ACT scores and high school grade point averages are unchanged.
A special congratulations in this case goes to Bordere, who records her first A-rated journal publication with this study. Just last month she shared the 2026 Turner College Excellence in Research Award along with TSYS School computer scientist Yi Zhou. Both of these scholars have picked up an additional academic publication since they received this award. The Turner College Awards and Scholarships Committee did an especially good this year with these two selections.
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