Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University: A University President's Perspective
By J. Duderstadt. 2000
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After decades of domination on campus, college sports' supremacy has begun to weaken. "Enough, already!" detractors cry. College is about learning, not chasing a ball around to the whir of TV cameras.In Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University James Duderstadt agrees, taking the view that the increased commercialization of intercollegiate athletics endangers our universities and their primary goal, academics. Calling it a "corrosive example of entertainment culture" during an interview with ESPN's Bob Ley, Duderstadt suggested that college basketball, for example, "imposes on the university an alien set of values, a culture that really is not conducive to the educational mission of university."Duderstadt is part of a growing controversy. Recently, as reported in "The New York Times," an alliance between university professors and college boards of trustees formed in reaction to the growth of college sports; it's the first organization with enough clout to challenge the culture of big-time university athletics.This book is certainly part of that challenge, and is sure to influence this debate today and in the years to come.James J. Duderstadt is President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering, University of Michigan.
Subfields: Gender Studies
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Citations in the corpus
- The Role of Gender Identities and Stereotype Salience With the Academic Performance of Male and Female College Athletes (2009, background): “Examining the extent to which race and ethnicity place additional burdens on college athletes in the classroom is a critical question for fully understanding the role of identity threat in the academic performance of college athletes (Duderstadt, 2000).”
- Athletics department awareness and action regarding the environment: a study of NCAA athletics department sustainability practices. (2012, background): “Their strategic planning processes are comprised of numerous internal and external variables that must be reconciled with their own strategic needs as well as with those of their affiliated universities (Duderstadt, 2003).”
- How Tight Are the Ties that Bind Stakeholder Groups? (2002, background): “Duderstadt (2000) has similarly argued that the interests of a number of stakeholders (e.g., alumni, the media, faculty, student 70 ORGANIZATION SCIENCE/Vol. 13, No. 1, January–February 2002 athletes) must be taken into consideration in the governance and potential reform of intercollegiate…”