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 ...

Animal models of human disease have extremely mixed results, and all too often they do not work well and accomplish their goals of helping humans. 1 One such procedure, the forced swim test, is a ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

CHICAGO — For almost 60 years, one of the first things new students had to prove at the University of Chicago was their ability to stay afloat. But students in the Class of 2016 won’t have to pass a ...

An elite Chinese university has introduced a controversial new requirement -- a swim test. The BBC reported that the requirement -- that new Tsinghua University students prove they can swim at least ...

Attempting the Navy Seal Swim Test is no easy challenge, especially when mastering the combat sidestroke. This video takes you through the effort, technique, and mindset required to push through one ...