Week 4: Readings on Controversies and Controlling College Sports
[Read the required items [⇒], and any other two items of interest in this list]
⇒C. W. Savage. "The Ohio Report on Athletics," Journal of Higher Education (1930).
⇒John M. Stalnaker. "Athletics," Journal of Higher Education (1933).
⇒Jesse Feiring Williams. "The Crucial Issue in American College Athletics," Journal of Higher Education (1949).
⇒Robert D. Benford. "The College Sports Reform Movement: Reframing the Edutainment Industry," The Sociological Quarterly (2007).
- W. H. Cowley. "Athletics in American Colleges," Journal of Higher Education (1930).
- Frank N. Gardner. "The Place of Intercollegiate Athletics in Higher Education: Hold that Tiger!" Journal of Higher Education (1960).
- S. M. Marco. "The Place of Intercollegiate Athletics in Higher Education: The Responsibility of the Faculty," Journal of Higher Education (1960).
- Marcus L. Plant. "The Place of Intercollegiate Athletics in Higher Education: Faculty Control," Journal of Higher Education (1961).
- Erik Lords. "U. of Minnesota Levels Academic-Misconduct Charges Against 17 Former Athletes," The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 6, 2000.
- Joe Lapointe. "Trying to Skate Past A Hazing Scandal," New York Times, September 21, 2000.
- Welch Suggs. "Swarthmore Kicks Football out of the College," The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 15, 2000.
- A Call to Action: Reconnecting College Sports and Higher Education (Miami: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, 2001).
- George H. Hanford and Milton Greenberg. "We Should Speak the 'Awful Truth' about College Sports or Does the Public Like the Status Quo?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 30, 2003.
- Jere Longman. "An Athlete's Dangerous Experiment," New York Times, November 26, 2003.
- Lawrence Biemiller. "St. Bonaventure U. President Resigns as Tumult Over Basketball Program Continues," The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 10, 2003.
- Robert Lipsyte. "From Discordant Notes, Reformers Hear One Song," New York Times, November 29, 2003.
- William D. Mangold, Luann Bean, and Douglas Adams. "The Impact of Intercollegiate Athletics on Graduation Rates Among Major NCAA Division I Universities. Implications for College Persistence Theory and Practice," The Journal of Higher Education (2003).
- Mark Schlabach. "Varsity Athletes Get Class Credit: Some Colleges Give Grades for Playing," Washington Post, August 26, 2004.
- Robert Andrew Powell. "Florida A&M Tries to Recover From Failed Bid," New York Times, October 9, 2004.
- Robert H. Aronson. "Letter to president Lee Huntsman, University of Washington," The Seattle Times, March 16, 2004.
- Welch Suggs. "Mellon Fund Tackles College Sports: New Project Focuses on Academic Requirements for Athletes and the Role of Coaches, The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 3, 2004.
- Angela Lumpkin. "A Call to Action for Faculty Regarding Intercollegiate Athletics," Phi Kappa Phi Forum (88/1).
- Doug Lederman. "College Sports: New Problem [high school diplomas]," Inside HigherEd, December 1, 2006.
- Paul D. Umbach, Megan M. Palmer, George D. Kuh, and Stephanie J. Hannah. "Intercollegiate Athletes and Effective Educational Practices: Winning Combination or Losing Effort?," Research in Higher Education (2006).
- Kathy Kurz, Jim Scannell, and Samantha Veeder. "Admissions, Athletics, and Financial Aid: How to Build a Strong Partnership among Each of These Areas," universitybusiness.com, January 2007.
- Bradley David Ridpath. "Can the Faculty Reform Intercollegiate Athletics? A Past, Present, and Future Perspective," Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics (2008).
- Jim Carty, John Heuser, and Nathan Fenno. "University of Michigan Athletes Steered to Professor," The Ann Arbor News, March 16, 2008.
- David Moltz. "Righting the Ship," [APR] Inside Higher Ed, August 4, 2009.
- Joy Gaston Gayles and Shouping Hu. "The Influence of Student Engagment and Sport Participation on College Outcomes Among Division I Student Athletes," The Journal of Higher Education (2009).
- Katie Thomas. "Call to Curb Athletic Spending Strikes Some as Unrealistic," [Re Knight Commission] New York Times, October 27, 2009.
- Libby Sander. "Hofstra U. Is 2nd University in 2 Weeks to Drop Its Football Team," The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 3, 2009.
- Lisa Kihl and Tim Richardson. "'Fixing the Mess': A Grounded Theory of a Men's Basketball Coaching Staff's Suffering as a Result of Academic Corruption," Journal of Sport Management(23, 2009).
- V. Barbara Bush, Cindy Castañda, David E. Hardy, and Stephen G. Katsinas. "What the Numbers Say About Community Colleges and Athletics," New Directions for Community Colleges (2009)
- "Football Bowl Subdivision Coaches Salaries for 2010," USA Today, December 15, 2010.
- Restoring the Balance: Dollars, Values, and the Future of College Sports (Miami: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, 2010).
- University of Southern California. Public Infractions Report, NCAA, June 10, 2010.
- Libby Sander. "At What Price Football? As Some Programs Suit Up (and Others Disband), One Team's Early Success Could Be Instructive," The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 14, 2010.
- Libby Sander. "Report Faults Binghamton U. for Weak Oversight of Athletics," The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 11, 2010.
- Lynn Zinser. "U.S.C. Sports Receive Harsh Penalties," New York Times, June 11, 2010.
- Matthew J. Mitten, James L. Musselman, and Bruce W. Burton. "Targeted Reform of Commercialized Intercollegiate Athletics," San Diego Law Review (47:779, 2010).
- Skip Rozin. "A Win at What Cost? [SUNY Binghamton]," The Wall Street Journal, April 1, 2010.
- Steve Wieberg and Steve Berkowitz "Assistant Football Coaches See Surge in Pay in Down Economy," USA Today, December 22, 2010.
- Allie Grasgreen, "Semi-Contact Sport [Ivy League restrictions on full-contact practices, concussions]," Inside Higher Ed, July 29, 2011.
- Allie Grasgreen. "Bar Raised for Athletic Eligibility," Inside HigherEd, August 12, 2011.
- Charles Robinson. "Renegade Miami Football Booster Spells out Illicit Benefits to Players," Yahoo! Sports, August 17, 2011.
- Dan Wetzel, "Why Miami Is in Trouble,"
- Dan Wetzel, "Who Is Nevin Shapiro?"
- David Moltz. "Pretending They Didn't Happen" [Penalty of vacating wins], Inside HigherEd, July 7, 2011.
- "Executive Summary of Final Report: NCAA Working Group on Collegiate Model -- Enforcement," August 2012
- Allie Grasgreen, "Big Ten and Ivy League to Study Head Trauma in College Sports," Inside Higher Ed, June 20, 2012.
- Allie Grasgreen, "NCAA Bans Teams from Postseason for Low APR Scores," Inside Higher Ed, June 21, 2012.
- Allie Grasgreen, "Spelman Eliminates Athletics in Favor of Campus-Wide Wellness Initiative," Inside Higher Ed, November 1, 2012.
- Allie Grasgreen, "Struggling Rutgers follows Maryland to Big Ten," Inside Higher Ed, November 21, 2012.
- Bill Pennington, "In Virginia's Hills, a Football Crusade [Liberty University]," The New York Times, November 10, 2012.
- Brad Wolverton, "Alleged Academic Fraud at U. of North Carolina Tests NCAA's Reach: Myths Surrounding the Group's Investigation Cloud the Controversy at Chapel Hill," The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 7, 2012.
- Brad Wolverton, "Need 3 Quick Credits to Play Ball? Call Western Oklahoma," The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 13, 2012.
- Brad Wolverton, "Ohio State's Sports Program Aims to Play It Straight After a Scandal, the Buckeyes Supersized Their Rules-enforcement Staff, Will that Work?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 10, 2012.
- Casey Green, "They of Little Faith: College Presidents and Big-Time Athletics," Inside Higher Ed, July 30, 2012.
- George F. Will, "Pigskin Progressivism," The Washington Post, September 7, 2012.
- Luke Winn, "Casey Leaves Harvard in Wake of Cheating Scandal; Curry to Follow," SI.Com, September 11, 2012.
- Matt Apuizzo, Adam Goldman, and Jack Gillum, "Steroids Loom in NCAA Football as Testing, Punishment Remain Inconsistent," AP, December 20, 2012.
- Matthew Futterman, "Last Rivals Standing: The Battle for the Soul of College Football," Wall Street Journal, November 23, 2012.
- Report of the Special Investigative Counsel Regarding the Actions of The Pennsylvania State University Related to the Child Sexual Abuse Committed by Gerald A. Sandusky, Freeh, Sporking, and Sullivan, LLP, July 12, 2012.
- Richard Perez-Pena, Studies Find More Students Cheating, With High Achievers No Exception, The New York Times, September 7, 2012.
- Robert L. King, "NCAA Erred in Its Involvement in Penn State (essay)," Inside Higher Ed, August 10, 2012.
- Report of the Rawlings Panel on Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 29, 2013
- Barry P. Boden, Ilan Breit, Jason A. Beachler, Aaron Williams, and Frederick O. Mueller. "Fatalities in High School and College Football Players," American Journal of Sports Medicine (41, 2013).
- Claudio M. Rocha and Packianathan Chelladurai, "Patterns of Bureaucracy in Intercollegiate Athletic Departments," Journal of Sport Management, (27, 2013).
- John Thelin. "College Presidents at Any Level, Face Sports Challenges," Inside Higher Ed, May 21, 2013
- Jonathan Mahler. "The Coach Who Exploded," the New York Times, November 6, 2013
- Richard M. Southall and Ellen J. Staurowsky, "Cheering on the Collegiate Model: Creating, Disseminating, and Imbedding the NCAA's Redefinition of Amateurism," Journal of Sport and Social Issues (37:2013)
- Richard Vedder. "College Sports is Heading for a Fall," Inside Higher Ed, May 21, 2013
- William E. Kirwan and R. Gerald Turner, "Recommendations on NCAA Governance and Related Division I Issues," Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, August 6, 2013
- Michael Sokolove, "How One Lawyer’s Crusade Could Change Football Forever," New York Times November 6, 2014
- "NCAA, Chance of Going Pro 2013-2015"
- Jake New, "Wary of Concussions, College Athletes Choose Early Retirement," Inside HigherEd, May 18, 2015
- Jo Craven McGinty, "Short on Concussion Data, NCAA Sets Out to Get Some," Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2015
- John Branch, "At Packed Utah Women’s Gymnastics Meets, Marketing Earns High Scores," New York Times, February 25, 2015
- John J. Cheslock and David B. Knight, "Diverging Revenues, Cascading Expenditures, and Ensuing Subsidies: The Unbalanced and Growing Financial Strain of Intercollegiate Athletics on Universities and Their Students," The Journal of Higher Education (86:3, 2015)
- Jonathon R. Edwards and Marvin Washington. "Establishing a 'Safety Net': Exploring the Emergence and Maintenance of College Hockey Inc. and NCAA Division I Hockey," Journal of Sport Management, (29, 2015)
- Nathaniel Popper. "Coaches’ New Overture: Limit Early Recruiting," The New York Times, December 7, 2015
- NCAA, "One and Done," 2015.
- Paula Lavigne "Lawyers, Status, Public Backlash Aid College Athletes Accused of Crimes," ESPN.com, June 14, 2015
- Ben Cohen. "College Football Games Are Far Too Long," The Wall Street Journal, September 14, 2016
- Brad Wolverton. "The Myth of the Sports Scholarship," The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 21, 2016
- Powers Shannon, Lawrence W Judge, and Carole Makela. "An Investigation of Destructive Leadership in A Division I Intercollegiate Athletic Department: Follower Perceptions and Reactions," International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, (11:3 2016)