CLEVELAND – For the second-straight year the Western Michigan men's athletics program has been named the winner of the 2024 Mid-American Conference Men's Faculty Athletic Representative (FAR) Academic Achievement Award.
The FAR Awards are designed to recognize the Conference institution with the highest overall combination of both grade point average (GPA) and Academic Progress Rate (APR) rank by gender. The GPA's were based upon the 2023-24 academic year.
The Conference FAR's worked with the Athletic Academic Advisors to compute an award that best represents the academic achievement of student-athletes in a competitive setting. The FAR Awards are given to those institutions' male and female programs with the highest overall combination of GPA and APR within the Conference.