http://www.nbcnews.com/video/meet-the-press/54754761#55083101
This video brings up them most important component of college sports. This is whether or not a student can graduate i will tie this to the end of my paper because the NCAA is taking advantage of degree-less "student-athletes", and most athletes lives are shaped by them earning a degree not playing professional sports.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Research Blog #5: Bibligraphy
Armstrong, Elizabeth A., and Laura T. Hamilton. "Introduction." Paying for the party: how college maintains inequality. Cambridge, Mass. and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2013. . Print.
Cross, Michael E., and Toma, J. D. . "INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS AND STUDENT COLLEGE CHOICE: Exploring the Impact of Championship Seasons on Undergraduate Applications." Research in Higher Education 1998th ser. 39.6 (1998): 633-61. Print.
Drape, Joe. "COLLEGE FOOTBALL: A Question Of Responsibility; Injured Player's Case Could Shake Up N.C.A.A." The New York Times. The New York Times, 14 Oct. 1997. Web. 29 Apr. 2014.
"Eric LeGrand 'Believe Fund' is launched by Rutgers to benefit paralyzed player." The Star-Ledger 22 Oct. 2010, sec. Sports: n. pag. Print.
Moser, Austin, and Miller, John J. "Mismanaging Concussions in Intercollegiate Football." Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance 85.2 (2014): 38-40. Taylor and Francis Online. Web. 28 Apr. 2014. <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07303084.2014.866831#.U16_z_ldWSo>.
"Mission & Goals." About NCPA. National Collegiate Players Association, n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2014. <http://www.ncpanow.org/about/mission-goals>.
Potter, Ian R., "Investigating academic motivation among NCAA division I football players within their competition and non-competition semesters." (2013). Electronic Theses & Dissertations. Paper 868. http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/868
Rishe, Patrick James. "A Reexamination of How Athletic Success Impacts Graduation Rates: Comparing Student-Athletes to All Other Undergraduates." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 62 (): 407-427. Print.
Rivera, Angel G. "The Big Hit: NCAA Concussions Policy a Nightmare for Student-Athlete." Health Law Perspectives March (2013): n. pag.University of Houston Law Center. Web. 28 Apr. 2014. <http://www.law.uh.edu/healthlaw/perspectives/2013/Rivera_The%20Big%20Hit_NCAA%20Concussions%20Policy%20a%20Nightmare%20for%20Student-Athletes.pdf>.
Schooled: The Price of College Sports. Dir. Ross Finkel, Trevor Martin, and Jonathan Paley. Perf. Kevin Anderson, Jay Bilas, Taylor Branch. Netflix, 2013. Online Stream.
"Should Student Athletes Get Paid." Yarin, Rob. Meet the Press with David Gregory. David Gregory. NBC, New York. 23 Mar. 2014. Web. Transcript.
Sperber, Murray A.. Beer and circus: how big-time college sports is crippling undergraduate education. New York: H. Holt, 2000. Print.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Research Blog #4 Research Proposal
Topic
Schools across the country are competing to gain students admissions in a privatized society every day. Every aspect of the university is a something that can make or break a student’s decision to enroll in a university. Students pick schools for different reasons and universities are finding that a strong athletic program can be their most visible asset to expanding their community. The paper will attempt to link the current and past climate of athletics at universities with the stature of various universities across the country, and the impact their performance has had on the community, mainly academically and socially.
Research Question
To what degree is athletics responsible for a university’s external appearance and what is the variable that allows a peaceful coexistence? I think there are many competing views of an answer to this question and they lie deep within the culture of each school. I think it will be exciting in such a time where schools are being mixed up geographically to bond together with what they see as institutions with similar visions. I feel I may need to be a bit more precise but I would love to examine each school. An idea I have to add in another variable is to examine the main points of the school’s athletic budgets with the research question.
Theoretical Frame
Research conducted by Haussler and Galagher (1987) showed that the college decision comes down to “three stages: Predisposition where a (1) predisposition, where a student arrives at a tentative to continue his or her education; (2) search, where a student gathers information on the attributes and values that characterize alternatives among institutions: and (3) choice, where a student decides which institution to attend. We suggest that the significant success in intercollegiate athletics and the positive attention it produces has an influence on the search and choice stages, and to a lesser extent, may even influence predisposition in making certain students -- those who follow college sports -- aware of higher education from an early age" I believe that each stage is important and the predisposing stage quite possibly being the most if a university is able to entrench itself deeply into a community.
Secondly, “College athletics are an activity, however, that scholars and administrators too commonly fail to address or view as distinct from other institutional functions and significant in their own right. Intercollegiate athletics are too often considered separate from core activities on campus, but they advance these causes, though in often nebulous ways” This has been evident that athletic departments exist on a continuum from positive to negative, and there effects can be ranging even on an individual basis.
Research Plan, Case Study or Additional Questions
It is interesting to see what factor geography plays in a schools ability to maximize growth. I am going to look for research into failed academic programs and successful ones. I’ll pay attention to studies aimed at effects on admissions to attempt to tie both of these aspects together.
What additional questions suggest themselves?
What is your research plan – what information or case studies are you going to look for?
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Working Bibliography
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Literature Review Blog #1
(1) Visual. Link to Download.
(2) MLA Citation
(3) Summary
This reading is focused on the data involving application increases and decreases in undergraduate applications following a national championship season for basketball and football from 1979-92. The authors compare the data to other schools with similar application numbers and athletic program size, to determine what effect the success brought to the situation. To avoid from skewing their variable (athletic success via national championship), they avoided choosing schools that had considerable success in athletics during the comparative periods of time.
(4) Authors
"Also, it would be interesting to determine whether there is a difference in any changes in application quality between selective and less selective schools. Another interesting question would be whether there are corresponding changes in yields when admit rates increase, or whether schools simply increase the number of students that they admit into the first-year class. A final related research question might be whether the geographical diversity that oftne goes along with selectivity expands concurrently with increases n applications or do simply more students from the same geographical areas continue to apply"
--(Toma and Cross 656).
(7) Value
(2) MLA Citation
Cross, Michael E., and Toma, J. D. . "INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS AND STUDENT COLLEGE CHOICE: Exploring the Impact of Championship Seasons on Undergraduate Applications." Research in Higher Education 1998th ser. 39.6 (1998): 633-61. Print.
(3) Summary
This reading is focused on the data involving application increases and decreases in undergraduate applications following a national championship season for basketball and football from 1979-92. The authors compare the data to other schools with similar application numbers and athletic program size, to determine what effect the success brought to the situation. To avoid from skewing their variable (athletic success via national championship), they avoided choosing schools that had considerable success in athletics during the comparative periods of time.
(4) Authors
Michael E. Cross, PhD -- Director of Athletics
As the Bradley Department of Athletics advances through the 2013-14 season, Dr. Michael Cross completes his fourth full year at the department's helm after taking over as the University's ninth Director of Athletics Jan. 1, 2010. In his position, Dr. Cross supervises operations, athletic performance, NCAA compliance, communications and fundraising for Bradley's 15 intercollegiate athletic programs, while serving as a liaison between the Athletic Department and other units of the University. He also serves as a member of Bradley University President Joanne Glasser's cabinet.
J. Douglas Toma -- Associate Prof., Inst. of Higher Education , U. of Georgia
J. Douglas Toma is associate professor at the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia and has an appointment on the School of Law faculty there. He also serves as dean of the Franklin Residential College at UGA.
Toma writes primarily about strategy and management in higher education, but also addresses qualitative research and legal issues in higher education in his scholarly work. His present research is on systems approaches to higher education management and strategies used by institutions to position themselves for greater prestige. Toma is author, among other books, of Football U.: Spectator Sports in the Life of the American University (Michigan, 2003), in which he addressed the uses by U.S. institutions of intercollegiate American football in advancing strategic ends.
J. Douglas Toma passed on May 4, 2011 at the age of 47.
(5) Key Terms/Concepts
College Athletics Impact: the athletic department has the ability to have a huge impact on a University. It is the most visible production for most universities, potentially for both good and bad reasons. Given its growing popularity and potential danger, this is a great time for research into this topic.
Variables of Study:
-Success: winning a National championship in football or basketball
-Applications: Increase/decrease
This information is combined and analyzed, then compared to closely matched schools for a fuller view of the impact on application rates across the country.
(6) Quotes
"College athletics are an activity, however, that scholars and administrators too commonly fail to address or view as distinct from other institutional functions and significant in their own right. Intercollegiate athletics are too often considered separate from core activities on campus, but they advance these causes, though in often nebulous ways"
--(Toma and Cross 634).
"Finally, as our conseptual framework, we adopted the model proposed by (HandG 1987) which divides the college choice process into three stages: (1) predisposition, where a student arrives at a tentative to continue his or her education; (2) search, where a student gathers information on the attributes and values that characterize alternatives among institutions: and (3) choice, where a student decides which institution to attend. We suggest that the significant success in intercollegiate athletics and the positive attention it produces has an influence on the search and choice stages, and to a lesser extent, may even influence predisposition in making certain students -- those who follow college sports -- aware of higher education from an early age"
--(Toma and Cross 637).
J. Douglas Toma -- Associate Prof., Inst. of Higher Education , U. of Georgia
J. Douglas Toma is associate professor at the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia and has an appointment on the School of Law faculty there. He also serves as dean of the Franklin Residential College at UGA.
Toma writes primarily about strategy and management in higher education, but also addresses qualitative research and legal issues in higher education in his scholarly work. His present research is on systems approaches to higher education management and strategies used by institutions to position themselves for greater prestige. Toma is author, among other books, of Football U.: Spectator Sports in the Life of the American University (Michigan, 2003), in which he addressed the uses by U.S. institutions of intercollegiate American football in advancing strategic ends.
J. Douglas Toma passed on May 4, 2011 at the age of 47.
(5) Key Terms/Concepts
College Athletics Impact: the athletic department has the ability to have a huge impact on a University. It is the most visible production for most universities, potentially for both good and bad reasons. Given its growing popularity and potential danger, this is a great time for research into this topic.
Variables of Study:
-Success: winning a National championship in football or basketball
-Applications: Increase/decrease
This information is combined and analyzed, then compared to closely matched schools for a fuller view of the impact on application rates across the country.
(6) Quotes
"College athletics are an activity, however, that scholars and administrators too commonly fail to address or view as distinct from other institutional functions and significant in their own right. Intercollegiate athletics are too often considered separate from core activities on campus, but they advance these causes, though in often nebulous ways"
--(Toma and Cross 634).
"Finally, as our conseptual framework, we adopted the model proposed by (HandG 1987) which divides the college choice process into three stages: (1) predisposition, where a student arrives at a tentative to continue his or her education; (2) search, where a student gathers information on the attributes and values that characterize alternatives among institutions: and (3) choice, where a student decides which institution to attend. We suggest that the significant success in intercollegiate athletics and the positive attention it produces has an influence on the search and choice stages, and to a lesser extent, may even influence predisposition in making certain students -- those who follow college sports -- aware of higher education from an early age"
--(Toma and Cross 637).
"Also, it would be interesting to determine whether there is a difference in any changes in application quality between selective and less selective schools. Another interesting question would be whether there are corresponding changes in yields when admit rates increase, or whether schools simply increase the number of students that they admit into the first-year class. A final related research question might be whether the geographical diversity that oftne goes along with selectivity expands concurrently with increases n applications or do simply more students from the same geographical areas continue to apply"
--(Toma and Cross 656).
(7) Value
This journal explains that investing money towards building a successful athletic department can help schools gain access to more student applications in competition with other universities across the country. I also find that this connects very well to the party pathway discussed by Armstrong and Hamilton.
Research Blog #3: Privatization and College Athletics
A successful athletics program helps to bring in out of state students needed to compete in our privatized society. We can see how this connects to the "Party Pathway" discussed by Elizabeth Armstrong and Laura Hamilton in "Paying for the Party: How Colleges Maintain Inequality". She explains "Building the social side of the party pathway involves creating big-time sports teams and facilities, as well as other "recreational" aspects of student life...Most centrally, it requires solving the puzzle of how to systematically, and in large-scale fashion, generate 'fun.' " (Armstrong and Hamilton 15) A football game at a perennial power can turn an entire Fall Saturday into a giant party, attracting thousands of people and hopefully students to the fun they can be having, essentially serving as a living advertisement for the school.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Research Blog #2: Scouting the Territory
1. I still want to use the same topic I suggested in last weeks blog but i have modified it. The focus will be on the wide-scale growth of Athletics Departments throughout the country, with a focus on both the success and fail stories. I would also like to spend some time in the Journey that Rutgers has been on to build a stronger athletics department. But i would also like to discuss the unrest from division 1 athletes who believe they are being exploited for cash.
2.I think that i will have great sources in ESPN, S.I. and other major outlets. I am alod eager to look into the Rutgers Archives though for information specific to this University.
This is the first attempt for players to take on a task like this.
2.I think that i will have great sources in ESPN, S.I. and other major outlets. I am alod eager to look into the Rutgers Archives though for information specific to this University.
3. Illegal Procedure: A Sports Agent Comes Clean on the Dirty ...
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Former sports agent Luchs pulls back the curtain on the real economy of college football: how agents compete for their services before they go pro.| Northwestern football players take union hopes to labor board hearing In-Depth-CNN- |
Maurice Clarret Example- declared pro, NFL said you need to wait longer. NCAA said you cant come back.
4. There are currently a lot of hot topics centered around where the profits should be going in college sports, and furthermore, it is obvious what a solid reputable athletics program can do for a university. I find it intriguing that a a group of teammates are banding together and fighting for rights. I cant wait to read more about these topics and refine these articles. i had read some great articles about the history of Rutgers Athletics, and the different Athletic Directors they have had. The University has had leaders with different views, in the past more centered on strictly academic.
5. There are a number of controversies on this topic from moral issues, to fiscal responsibilities and social interests.
4. There are currently a lot of hot topics centered around where the profits should be going in college sports, and furthermore, it is obvious what a solid reputable athletics program can do for a university. I find it intriguing that a a group of teammates are banding together and fighting for rights. I cant wait to read more about these topics and refine these articles. i had read some great articles about the history of Rutgers Athletics, and the different Athletic Directors they have had. The University has had leaders with different views, in the past more centered on strictly academic.
5. There are a number of controversies on this topic from moral issues, to fiscal responsibilities and social interests.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Research Blog #1: Initial Project Idea
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