Schools for Scandal

The Dysfunctional Marriage of Division I Sports and Higher Education

AvSheldon Anderson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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For well over a century, big-time college sports has functioned as a business enterprise, one that serves to undermine the mission of institutions of higher education. This book chronicles the long and tortured history of the NCAA’s attempt to maintain the myth of amateurism and the student-athlete, along with the attendant fiction that the players’ academic achievement is the top priority of Division-I athletic programs. It is an indictment of the current system, making the case that big-time college sports cannot continue its connection to universities without undermining the mission of higher education. It concludes with bold proposals to separate big-time college sports from the university, transforming them into on-campus business operations.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-05-22
Mått:152 x 229 x 33 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Sports and American Culture
Antal sidor:308
Förlag:University of Missouri Press
ISBN:9780826223081

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Sheldon Anderson is professor emeritus of history from Miami University (of Ohio), where he taught international studies, world history, European diplomatic history, and sports history.He has written six books and co-authored another, including Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree: My Basketball Odyssey, The Forgotten Legacy of Stella Walsh: The Greatest Female Athlete of Her Time, The Politics and Culture of Modern Sports, and A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc: Polish-East German Relations, 1945-62. He also edited Twin Cities Sports: Games for All Seasons.

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“Like a lawyer building a strong case, Anderson compiles anecdotes, histories, quotes, testimonials, observations, facts, and numbers to argue that college sports are, and always have been, a business that produces clear winners (coaches, athletic directors, and the NCAA) and losers (college athletes). So well does Schools for Scandals make its points that at times the reader is left dumbstruck by the sheer hubris, hypocrisy, corruption, greed, and duplicity exhibited by those controlling college athletics.”— Chris Elzey, George Mason University, coeditor of DC Sports: The Nation’s Capital at Play "Schools for Scandal is an extraordinarily honest and compelling book that explains in rich detail how big-time college sports have subverted the stated goals of higher education. Not merely content to reveal the unsavory side of intercollegiate athletics, Anderson provides specific reform measures that could be implemented to guarantee educationally-sound sports programs. For anyone interested in college athletics and the connection between sport and higher education, this is essential reading." —David K. Wiggins, George Mason University, author of More than a Game: A History of the African American Experience in Sport