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Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc.
- How Big-Time College Sports Cheat Students, Taxpayers, and Academics
Engelsk Paperback
Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc.
- How Big-Time College Sports Cheat Students, Taxpayers, and Academics
Engelsk Paperback

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Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc. examines the corrupting influence and damaging financial effects of big-time intercollegiate athletics, especially football and to a lesser extent basketball, on American higher education.

Including historical and contemporary perspectives, the book traces the growth of intercollegiate sports from largely student-run activities supervised by faculty to the gargantuan, taxpayer-supported spectacles that now dominate many public universities. It investigates the regressive student fees that have helped subsidize big-time sports at public universities and prop up chronically unprofitable athletic departments, as well as the corrosive effects of athletics on the university’s academic enterprise. A review of the alleged salutary effects of massive sports programs, such as spurring alumni donations and student applications, reveals that such benefits are largely illusory, more myth than real. The book also pays special attention to the often prescient, if largely unsuccessful, opponents of these developments, and considers the alternatives to big-time athletics, from abolition to professionalization to club sports.

Students, scholars, sports fans, and those interested in learning how big-time football and basketball have cast such an enormous—and often baleful—shadow upon American colleges and universities will profit from this provocative and engagingly written book.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780367353889
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0367353881
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Udg. Dato:
11 dec 2019
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
231mm
Højde:
156mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
11 dec 2019
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