Despite the much publicized bad behavior of a minority of Central Michigan University students in the athletics department, there are a lot of positive achievements coming out of that department.

CMU's student athletes have earned the Institutional Academic Achievement Award for the fifth year in a row, beating out all other Mid-American Conference members. CMU students earned the top honor, based on overall grade-point average, for nine of the last ten years. The award was first presented twelve years ago. To view CMU's achievment go here.