CLEVELAND -- LeBron James already pledged to help put kids in college. Now he has committed to help those students get through the day-to-day once they arrive on campus.The LeBron James Family Foundation announced the creation of the I PROMISE Institute on the University of Akron campus Thursday. The institute is intended to be a resource for students who earn four-year scholarships to Akron through James program.When we first started this program, I wanted my kids to graduate from high school. But the more we grow as a Foundation, the more we find can be done to give our kids the best chance to be successful, James said in a statement. We dont just want our kids to get to college, we want them to graduate from college. And we want to make sure we are doing everything we can to help them do that.?According to a release, the institute will employ a team of educators dedicated to researching best practices, implementing academic interventions, and providing around-the-clock support for its students as they navigate college.?Foundation spokesperson Stephanie Rosa said that the University of Akron is funding the scholarships themselves and LJFF is funding the Institute.The institute will be housed in a currently undeveloped space inside InfoCision Stadium, where the Zips play their football games.The institute will spend the next five years readying itself for the inaugural class of students in James program, currently in eighth grade, to arrive at Akron in the fall of 2021. During that time, a governing board of academics from across the country -- including Brandi Hephner LaBanc, vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Mississippi; Paul A. Herold from the University of Akron; and Brian O. Hemphill, Ph.D., the president of Radford University -- researching and developing how the institute will focus its efforts moving forward. A stated goal of the institutes curriculum is to get to the root of urban youth retention.If we want to be ready for our students when they get to campus in a few short years, the work needs to start now, Michele Campbell, executive director of the foundation, said in a statement. For many of our kids, they are the first in their families to attend college, so we want to create a familiar, encouraging environment where they feel safe and supported. We believe we have the academics and the experts in place to ensure the I PROMISE Institute will be a valuable and impactful resource for our students.Speaking during shootaround before the Cleveland Cavaliers hosted the Toronto Raptors in a preseason game Thursday night, James said it was important to start students toward success as early as possible.If we didnt grab these kids by the third grade, their success rate of graduating high school would be limited and shortened, and third grade was the number, that was the age group, James said. We also started thinking about, yeah, were putting these kids in college and getting them education, but also the success rate of graduating college is very low as well even once you get to college. So we wanted to figure out a way where we could help these kids graduate college, and thats where the institute came from. And were building the criteria right now where kids that get their credentials get a college education from our foundation, from our program that we will have people and things in place to help them graduate college too. Just trying to make a difference.James also posted about the institute on Instagram Wednesday night.The institute is being funded in part by Sprite, which James has endorsed since his rookie season in 2003.My foundation is probably, besides my family, the No. 1 thing in my life, James said Wednesday. Being able to change kids and families, giving them an opportunity to see better days, we strive to do that every single day. And I get emails and I talked to my kids weekly about their progression for my kids that are in elementary [school] all the way to the kids in middle school, high school and the kids that are going to be going to college soon. So thats a huge thing for me.I have a vision on what I do entails. I cant get involved in what everybody else does. 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Eye witnesses confirmed that Yasir and Wahab had to be separated from each other by coach Mickey Arthur and then sent off the field.Pakistans team management confirmed that the incident did occur, but insisted it wasnt serious.Both [players] had an exchange of words but it wasnt serious, media manager Amjad Hussain Bhatti told ESPNcricinfo. Both were playing football and naturally while tackling one got pushed. So that [altercation] was mainly [in] the heat of the moment.Both were immediately separated to avoid it going any further. But now, they are both fine and have apologised to each other too. They have realised that this incident could have been avoided. No disciplinary action is expected to be takken and Hussain added that the teams unity has not been affected in any way, an assessment backed up by a couple of players in the side who also confirmed the incident was nothing serious.dddddddddddd This incident wont affect the team unity, Hussain said. There is no element of seriousness in it at all. The unity of the team is as cohesive as ever and in good spirit.The pair appeared in a video later, denying there were any issues. Wahab added that he and Yasir were very good friends.Pakistani fans will not be unfamiliar with such training ground incidents. During the 2003 World Cup, Younis Khan and Inzamam-ul-Haq clashed, infamously, during yet another game of football in which a tackle had gone wrong. The most serious altercation, however, came in a dressing room in 2007, when Shoaib Akhtar struck Mohammad Asif with a bat in Johannesburg, in the run-up to the World Twenty20. ' ' '