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Author: Roberta (Bobbie) Lee Cesarek Publisher: ISBN: Category : College athletes Languages : en Pages : 454
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This study examined the affects of the NCAA's 40% percentage of degree continuing eligibility academic standard relative to student-athlete participation opportunities and the construct of career maturity. The Academic Reform initiative, instituted in the fall of 2003, required fifth semester student-athletes to attain 40% of their major degree program at the start of their fifth semester while 25% had been required of previous student-athletes to be eligible for competition. This 15% increase not only called into question competitive opportunities for student-athletes but concerns that the increased standard shortened the time frame student-athletes had available to declare their major degree program, or projected career path, thus reducing opportunities for career exploration. Relative to competitive opportunities, the failure to attain athletics eligibility for student-athletes required to adhere to the 40% percentage of degree standard was compared to two other groups: student-athletes required to attain the previous 25% academic standard and a group of students from the general student body. The chi-square analyses conducted found no statistically significant difference between the proportions of student-athletes who failed to attain the 40% percentage of degree standard and the student-athletes who failed to attain the 25% standard. However, a statistically significant difference was found between the proportions of student-athletes and students from the general student body who failed to attain the 40% academic standard. The demographic parameters of gender, entering admission status, entering ACT test score, entering class rank percentile and fifth semester GPA were analyzed among the three participant groups for comparative purposes. Chi-square and t -test analyses demonstrated statistically significant findings for the parameters of gender and entering high school class rank for the student-athletes and students from the general student body, both of whom attained the 40% percentage of degree standard. Relative to career maturity, a survey instrument designed specifically for the study to assess career maturity was administered to the student-athletes required to attain the 40% academic standard and the students from the general student body. T -test analyses identified no statistically significant findings between the two groups relative to six variables related to career maturity.
Author: Roberta (Bobbie) Lee Cesarek Publisher: ISBN: Category : College athletes Languages : en Pages : 454
Book Description
This study examined the affects of the NCAA's 40% percentage of degree continuing eligibility academic standard relative to student-athlete participation opportunities and the construct of career maturity. The Academic Reform initiative, instituted in the fall of 2003, required fifth semester student-athletes to attain 40% of their major degree program at the start of their fifth semester while 25% had been required of previous student-athletes to be eligible for competition. This 15% increase not only called into question competitive opportunities for student-athletes but concerns that the increased standard shortened the time frame student-athletes had available to declare their major degree program, or projected career path, thus reducing opportunities for career exploration. Relative to competitive opportunities, the failure to attain athletics eligibility for student-athletes required to adhere to the 40% percentage of degree standard was compared to two other groups: student-athletes required to attain the previous 25% academic standard and a group of students from the general student body. The chi-square analyses conducted found no statistically significant difference between the proportions of student-athletes who failed to attain the 40% percentage of degree standard and the student-athletes who failed to attain the 25% standard. However, a statistically significant difference was found between the proportions of student-athletes and students from the general student body who failed to attain the 40% academic standard. The demographic parameters of gender, entering admission status, entering ACT test score, entering class rank percentile and fifth semester GPA were analyzed among the three participant groups for comparative purposes. Chi-square and t -test analyses demonstrated statistically significant findings for the parameters of gender and entering high school class rank for the student-athletes and students from the general student body, both of whom attained the 40% percentage of degree standard. Relative to career maturity, a survey instrument designed specifically for the study to assess career maturity was administered to the student-athletes required to attain the 40% academic standard and the students from the general student body. T -test analyses identified no statistically significant findings between the two groups relative to six variables related to career maturity.
Author: Richard M. Southall Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press ISBN: 1643363794 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 356
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A well-constructed and reasoned debunking of the mythology of amateurism in for-profit NCAA athletics For the last 60-plus-years, as the revenue-generating capacity of Power Five football and men's basketball has dramatically increased, NCAA Division I Power Five football and men's basketball players (college profit-athletes) have been economically exploited, their labor has been severely restricted. To mask this inequity, the NCAA and its members created, disseminated, and embedded a fictitious "collegiate model of athletics" established and repeatedly modified for the benefit of member schools, designed to ensure profit-athletes were denied employment status and just compensation for their athletic labor. The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was provides a comprehensive historical, sociological, legal, financial, and managerial argument for the reclassification of profit-athletes as employees. Such a reclassification would permit profit-athletes to gain not only fair financial compensation but also equal access to educational benefits that have been promised but systematically denied. The authors trace how Power Five college sports have morphed into a hyper professionalized and commercialized sport–business enterprise. They provide evidence that at least since 1956 the NCAA's amateurism has been a collusive, exploitative, and racialized "pay for play" scheme that disproportionately affects Black profit-athletes. The authors cut through the institutional doublespeak of approved benefits, cost-of-attendance stipends, or name, image, likeness (NIL) collectives to lay bare the immorality of Power Five college sports. The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes makes the case that profit-athletes (and their representatives) must have the right to unionize and freely negotiate a collective bargaining agreement with management (e.g., NCAA, Power Five conferences and athletic departments). In addition, this book offers a forward-thinking structure in which individual labor contracts, or a potential collective bargaining agreement, address profit-athlete compensation and working conditions.
Author: Gerald S. Gurney Publisher: Brookings Institution Press ISBN: 0815730039 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 324
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A critical look at the tension between the larger role of the university and the commercialization of college sports Unwinding Madness is the most comprehensive examination to date of how the NCAA has lost its way in the governance of intercollegiate athletics—and why it is incapable of achieving reform and must be replaced. The NCAA has placed commercial success above its responsibilities to protect the academic primacy, health and well-being of college athletes and fallen into an educational, ethical, and economic crisis. As long as intercollegiate athletics reside in the higher education environment, these programs must be academically compatible with their larger institutions, subordinate to their educational mission, and defensible from a not-for-profit organizational standpoint. The issue has never been a matter of whether intercollegiate athletics belongs in higher education as an extracurricular offering. Rather, the perennial challenge has been how these programs have been governed and conducted. The authors propose detailed solutions, starting with the creation of a new national governance organization to replace the NCAA. At the college level, these proposals will not diminish the revenue production capacity of sports programs but will restore academic integrity to the enterprise, provide fairer treatment of college athletes with better health protections, and restore the rights and freedoms of athletes, which have been taken away by a professionalized athletics mentality that controls the cost of its athlete labor force and overpays coaches and athletic directors. Unwinding Madness recognizes that there is no easy fix to the problems now facing college athletics. But the book does offer common sense, doable solutions that respect the rights of athletes, protects their health and well-being while delivering on the promise of a bona fide educational degree program.
Author: Morris R. Council Publisher: IAP ISBN: 164113416X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 127
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There are numerous books documenting the challenges of student athletes and presenting recommendations for academic success. They primarily focus on understanding the issues of student-athletes and recommendations are oftentimes overly simplistic, failing to explicitly provide interventions that can be executed by student-athlete support personnel. In addition, the topic of supporting student-athletes who are academically at risk and/or are diagnosed with high incidence disabilities has been overlooked by scholars resulting in few publications specifically focusing on providing strategies to the staff/personnel who serve these populations. The general target audience is college/university practitioners who interface with student-athletes who demonstrate academic and social risk in the realm of athletics. These stakeholders include but are not limited to: academic support staff, student athletes, parents, coaches, faculty/educators, counselors, psychologists, higher education administrators, student affairs professionals, disability services coordinators/personnel, as well as researchers who focus on education leadership, sports, and special education. All of these groups are likely to find this book attractive especially as they work with student-athletes who are at-risk for academic failure. Also, it is ventured that this book will become the staple text for the National Association of Academic Advisors (N4A), the official organization for all personnel who work in collegiate academic support and can be used by members of intercollegiate athletic associations to reform policies in place to support at-risk student-athletes.
Author: Eddie Comeaux Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 142141662X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 411
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Intercollegiate athletics continue to bedevil American higher education. This book explores the complexities of intercollegiate athletics while explaining the organizational structures, key players, terms, and important issues relevant to the growing fields of recreational studies, sports management, and athletic administration.
Author: Joshua C. Hall Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1441959602 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 290
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This volume contains a collection of papers by economists which examine the various strategies for cutting costs and improving productivity in higher education in the United States. The dramatic increase in the cost of attending most colleges and universities in recent years has led to increasing concerns regarding college affordability. In addition, with nearly 35 percent of full-time college students failing to receive a bachelor’s degree within six years of enrolling in an institution of higher education, the productivity of colleges and universities has also been called into question. Systematic reform of higher education has intensified as a result of the large amount of public and private dollars flowing into it. The chapters in this volume, while recognizing it may be the primary source of the problem, also understand that the political forces behind the subsidization of higher education are unlikely to wane. The contributors examine several areas of possible reform from an economic perspective, including financial aid systems, athletics, and the organization of universities and university systems with an emphasis on identifying the types of reforms that are most likely to result in improvements as well as those that may make things worse. This volume will be of interest to economists, education researchers and policymakers concerned with education reform.
Author: Lisa Pike Masteralexis Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning ISBN: 9780763726232 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 512
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This textbook describes the skill sets needed by the professional sports manager, and surveys the various subdisciplines within the sports management field. The 21 chapters discuss financial and legal principles, high school and collegiate sports, facility and event management, broadcasting, and the health and fitness industry. The second edition u
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