Week 12: College and Sports


[Read any six items of interest in this list]

• "The Education-Athletics Nonsense: A Proposal for Severing the Connection between Higher Education and Competitive Sports," Journal of Higher Education, (1963).


• George A. Drake. "Small-College Sports, Big-Time Athletics, and the Yawning Chasm Between the Two," The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 18, 1987.


• Robert E. McCormick and Maurice. "Athletics versus Academics? Evidence from SAT Scores," The Journal of Political Economy (1987).


• 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.


• Academic Integrity (Princeton University: NCAA Self-Study, Certification 1997-98).


• Academic Integrity (University of Florida: NCAA Self-Study, Certification 1998)


• Allen L. Sack. "Big-Time Athletics vs. Academic Values: It's a Rout," The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 26, 2001.


• Welch Suggs. "Report Documents Poor Academic Performance of Athletes at New England Liberal-Arts Colleges," The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 17, 2001.


• Lombardi, John V. "Universities Should Create a Sports Performance Degree for Athletes (essay)," Inside Higher Ed, April 3, 2014


• John V. Lombardi. "Preserving the Audience: The NCAA and the APR," Inside Higher Ed--Reality Check,, 2005.


• 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.


• 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.


• Darin H. Van Tassell. "From the Dugout to the Classroom: Why Good Baseball Coaches Have Much to Offer Good Professors," Nine (2008).


• Mark Krein and Tom Weir. "If You Build It, They Will Come: Developing a Sports Media Major," Journal of Sports Media (2008).


• Bill Pennington. "Open Membership: Rise of College Club Teams Creates a Whole New Level of Success," The New York Times, December 3, 2008.


• 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.


• Report on Trends and Participation in Organized Youth Sports, National Council of Youth Sports, 2008


• David Moltz. "Cut and Run Athletics [APR]," Inside Higher Ed, May 1, 2009.


• Aaron Clopton. "Students as Spectators: Their Academic and Social Integration," New Directions for Higher Education (2009).


• 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.


• Brian Fisher. "Athletics Success and Institutional Rankings," New Directions for Higher Education (2009).


• D. Randall Smith. "College Football and Student Quality: An Advertising Effect or Culture and Tradition?" American Journal of Economics and Sociology (2009).


• 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).


• David Moltz. "Looking to Sports to Bolster Enrollments," Inside Higher Ed, January 21, 2009.


• Eric Anctil. "Institutional Advancement and Spectator Sports: The Importance of Television," New Directions for Higher Education (2009).


• 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)


• David Moltz. "A Moving Goalpost," Inside Higher Ed, July 15, 2010.


• Taylor Branch. "The Shame of College Sports," The Atlantic Monthly, October 2011.


• 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.


• Erin Durkin. "Small Athletics Budgets Makes NCAA Division I Play a Challenge," USA Today, May 16, 2012.


• E. Scott Adler, Michael J. Berry, and David Doherty. "Pushing 'Reset': The Conditional Effects of Coaching Replacements on College Football Performance," Social Science Quarterly, 2012


• Stephen L. Shapiro,Lynn L. Ridinger, Galen T. Trail. "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)


• Willis A. Jones. "Does becoming a Member of the Football Bowl Subdivision Increase Institutional Attractiveness to Potential Students," Innovation in Higher Education (39:2014)


• Rey Hernádez-Juliá:n and Kurt W. Rotthoff. "The Impact of College Football on Academic Achievement," Economics of Education Review (2014: 43)


• Ryan Wallerson. "Youth Participation Weakens in Basketball, Football, Baseball, Soccer," Wall Street Journal January 31, 2014


• National and Sport-Group APR Averages and Trends, May 2015, NCAA Data


• Will Hobson and Steven Rich. "The Latest Extravagances in The College Sports Arms Race? Laser Tag and Mini Golf," The Washington Post, December 21, 2015


• Brent Schrotenboe, Steve Berkowitz, and Christopher Schnaars. "Hiring a College Football Coach is Expensive. Firing One Is Too," USA Today, October 27, 2016


• Uma M. Jayakumar and Eddie Comeaux. "The Cultural Cover-Up of College Athletics: How Organizational Culture Perpetuates an Unrealistic and Idealized Balancing Act," The Journal of Higher Education (87:4, 2016)


• Jake New. "Two Teams Facing Charges of Academic Fraud Meet in NCAA Basketball Tournament," Inside Higher Ed, April 1, 2016


• Allen Sack and Gerald Gurney. "College Athletes Must Spend an Unreasonable Amount of Time on Their Sports (essay)," Inside Higher Ed, March 22, 2016


• Bob Hohler. "BC's Big Revenue Sports Hit Bottom, Stirring Scrutiny," The Boston Globe, March 12, 2016


• Matthew Katz and Bob Heere. "New Team, New Fans: A Longitudinal Examination of Team Identification as a Driver of University Identification," Journal of Sport Management, (30, 2016)


• Adam Love, Jim Watkins, Seungmo Kim. "Admissions Selectivity and Major Distribution in Big-Time College Football," Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, (10, 2017)


• Matthew G. Interis and Naomi J. Taylor. "Estimating the Non-Market Value of a College Sports Tradition," International Journal of Sport Finance (12, 2017)


• Ben Shpigel. "With Rigor and Mystique, Nebraska Builds a Bowling Dynasty," The New York Times, April 11, 2017


• Holly (Nichols ) Pflum, Daniel P. Nadler, and Michael T. Miller. "Community College Student Athletes: Regular Students or Pro-Athletes in Training?" College Student Journal, 2018?


• Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. "Eastern Michigan Professors Criticize Decision to Cut Four Sports," Inside Higher Ed, April 12, 2018.


• Marc Tracy. "Why Catholic Colleges Excel at Basketball," The New York Times, March 30, 2018.


• Jack Stripling. "Inside Auburn's Secret Effort to Advance an Athlete-Friendly Curriculum," The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 16, 2018.


• Marc Tracy. "Why Catholic Colleges Excel at Basketball," The New York Times, March 30, 2018.


• Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. "Eastern Michigan Professors Criticize Decision to Cut Four Sports," Inside HigherEdl, April 12, 2018


• Marc Tracy. "The Ivy League Becomes the Future of Football," The New York Times, October 26, 2018


• Ashley A. Smith. "Two-year Colleges in Arizona Consider Cutting Football after Five Institutions Drop Sport," Inside Higher Ed, November 30, 2018


• Michael A. Insler and Jimmy Karam. "Do Sports Crowd Out Books? The Impact of Intercollegiate Athletic Participation on Grades," Journal of Sports Economics, 20: 1 (2019)


• Will Jarvis. "80 Years Ago, a Football Powerhouse Ditched the Sport as a 'Crass' Distraction. Why Haven't More Colleges Followed Suit?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 17, 2019


• Marc Tracy. "N.C.A.A. Alters Rules for Agents and Draft in Wake of Basketball Corruption Scandal," The New York Times, August 8, 2019


• Will Jarvis. "LSU Just Unveiled a $28-Million Football Facility. The Flood-Damaged Library Is Still 'Decrepit'," The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 22, 2019


• Susan Svrluga. "Varsity Athletes, Admissions and Enrollment at Top Colleges," Federal Government and Washington Post Survey, 2019


• Nick Anderson and Susan Svrluga. "Bribery Scandal Points to the Athletic Factor: A Major Force in College Admissions," The Washington Post, June 12, 2019


• Calla Kessler. "The Vitality of Six-Man Football," The New York Times, November 22, 2019


• Ken Belson. "A Small Town Gave Up Tackle Football. It Came Storming Back," The New York Times, November 16, 2019


• Ken Belson, Quoctrung Bui, Joe Drape, Rumsey Taylor and Joe Ward. "Inside Football's Campaign to Save the Game," The New York Times, November 8, 2019


• Laine Higgins and Ben Cohen. "The NBA Might Have Ended College Basketball as We Know It," The Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2020