Week 12 reading

Intercollegiate Sports in America, 1900-2015
 

Spring 2015

Tuesday 4-6 and online

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Colleges and Sports

 Required Reading:
Read at least four of the following items.

  1. "The Education-Athletics Nonsense: A Proposal for Severing the Connection between Higher Education and Competitive Sports," Journal of Higher Education, (1963).
  2. George A. Drake. "Small-College Sports, Big-Time Athletics, and the Yawning Chasm Between the Two," The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 18, 1987.
  3. Robert E. McCormick and Maurice. "Athletics versus Academics? Evidence from SAT Scores," The Journal of Political Economy (1987).
  4. Peter Monaghan. "Sociologists' Look at Big-Time Basketball Depicts a World in Which Players' Academic Goals Are Subverted," The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 6, 1991.
  5. Allen L. Sack. "Big-Time Athletics vs. Academic Values: It's a Rout," The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 26, 2001.
  6. Welch Suggs. "Report Documents Poor Academic Performance of Athletes at New England Liberal-Arts Colleges," The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 17, 2001.
  7. John V. Lombardi. "Preserving the Audience: The NCAA and the APR," Inside Higher Ed--Reality Check,, 2005.
  8. Stefan Fatsis. "Way Station: Prep Schools Increasingly Prepare Players for Division I Competition. But Do They Prepare Them for Life Beyond The Game?" The [Wall Street] Journal Report: NCAA Basketball Tournament, March 14, 2005.
  9. Welch Suggs. "The Role of Sports in Small-College Life. Mellon Foundation Project Encourages Colleges to 'integrate' Athletes with Other Students," The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 8, 2005.
  10. Ron Grossman. "$6 Million Center Tutors Jocks Only U. Of I., Other Colleges Draw Faculty, Student Criticism for Spending So Much on So Few," chicagotribune.com, November 28, 2008.
  11. Darin H. Van Tassell. "From the Dugout to the Classroom: Why Good Baseball Coaches Have Much to Offer Good Professors," Nine (2008).
  12. Mark Krein and Tom Weir. "If You Build It, They Will Come: Developing a Sports Media Major," Journal of Sports Media (2008).
  13. Bill Pennington. "Open Membership: Rise of College Club Teams Creates a Whole New Level of Success," The New York Times, December 3, 2008.
  14. Aaron Clopton. "Students as Spectators: Their Academic and Social Integration," New Directions for Higher Education (2009).
  15. Brian Fisher. "Athletics Success and Institutional Rankings," New Directions for Higher Education (2009).
  16. Eric Anctil. "Institutional Advancement and Spectator Sports: The Importance of Television," New Directions for Higher Education (2009).
  17. D. Randall Smith. "College Football and Student Quality: An Advertising Effect or Culture and Tradition?" American Journal of Economics and Sociology (2009).
  18. Jeffrey J. Fountain and Peter S. Finley. "Academic Majors of Upperclassmen Football Players in the Atlantic CoastConference: An Analysis of Academic Clustering Comparing White and Minority Players," Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics (2009).
  19. David Moltz. "Looking to Sports to Bolster Enrollments," Inside Higher Ed, January 21, 2009.
  20. David Moltz. "Cut and Run Athletics [APR]," Inside Higher Ed, May 1, 2009.
  21. Darren Everson. "Can the Ivy League Get Its Game Back? Lackluster Teams Prompt Calls For Change; A New Chief's Listening Tour," The Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2009.
  22. James L.W. Houle, Britton W. Brewer, and Annette S. Kluck. "Developmental Trends in Athletic Identity: A Two-Part Retrospective Study," Journal of Sport Behavior, 33:2, 2010)
  23. David Moltz. "A Moving Goalpost," Inside Higher Ed, July 15, 2010.
  24. NCAA, "Estimated Probability of Competing in Athletics Beyond the High School Interscholastic Level," September 27, 2011.
  25. Graduation and Academic Success--NCAA Data
  26. Erin Durkin, "Small Athletics Budgets Makes NCAA Division I Play a Challenge," USA Today, May 16, 2012.
  27. Michael L. Anderson, "The Benefits of College Athletics Success: An Application of the Propensity Score Design with Instrumental Variables, " Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 18196, Cambridge, MA, 2012.
  28. Taylor Branch, "The Shame of College Sports," The Atlantic Monthly, October 2011.
  29. Shapiro, Stephen L., Lynn L. Ridinger, Galen T. Trail.Journal of Sport Management, An "Analysis of Multiple Spectator Consumption Behaviors, Identification, and Future Behavioral Intentions Within the Context of a New College Football Program," Journal of Sport Management, (27:130-145, 2013).
  30. Academic Integrity (Princeton University: NCAA Self-Study, Certification 1997-98).
  31. Academic Integrity (University of Florida: NCAA Self-Study, Certification 1998).
  32. Rey Hernádez-Julián and Kurt W. Rotthoff "The Impact of College Football on Academic Achievement," Economics of Education Review (2014: 43).
  33. Willis A. Jones, "Does becoming a Member of the Football Bowl Subdivision Increase Institutional Attractiveness to Potential Students," Innovation in Higher Education (39:2014).

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