Thelin Games Colleges Play

Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-1-4214-0391-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Featuring a new introduction by the author, the paperback edition of Games Colleges Play chronicles the history of intercollegiate athletics from 1910 to 1990.

Featuring a new introduction by the author, the paperback edition of Games Colleges Play chronicles the history of intercollegiate athletics from 1910 to 1990—from the early, glory days of Knute Rockne and the Gipper to the modern era of big budgets, powerful coaches, and pampered players. John Thelin describes how sports programs—although seldom accorded official mention with teaching and research in the university mission statement—have become central to university life. As administrators search for a proper balance between athletics and academics, Thelin observes, this peculiar institution grows increasingly powerful and controversial.

Thelin examines the 1929 Carnegie Foundation Report, the formation of major athletic conferences, the national college basketball scandals after World War II, the dissolution of the Pacific Coast Conference in the 1950s, and the Knight Foundation Report of 1991. He finds disturbing patterns of abuse and limited reform and explores the implications of these patterns for today's college presidents, faculty, and students.

Games Colleges Play provides historical background that will inform current policy discussions about the proper place of intercollegiate athletics within the American university.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thelin, John R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editor's Foreword
Preface to the 1996 Edition
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: American Higher Education's "Peculiar Institution"
Chapter 1. The Reform Canon: The 1929 Carnegie Foundation Report
Chapter 2. Responses to Reform, 1930 to 1946
Chapter 3. Regional Pride and Institutional Prestige: College Sports and the "Booster" Campus
Chapter 4. Schools for Scandal, 1946 to 1960
Chapter 5. Faculty Control and the Irony of Reform: The Pacific Coast Conference, 1946 to 1959
Chapter 6. Critics and Controversies, 1960 to 1980
Chapter 7. From Sports Page to Front Page, 1980 to 1990
Epilogue: An American Dilemma: Balancing Academics and Athletics
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Thelin, John R.
John R. Thelin is the University Research Professor Emeritus of the history of higher education and public policy at the University of Kentucky. His numerous books include A History of American Higher Education and Games Colleges Play.

John R. Thelin is professor of history of higher education and philanthropy at Indiana University. A former Chancellor Professor at the College of William and Mary, he is the author of Higher Education and Its Useful Past and co-author, with Lawrence L. Wiseman, of The Old College Try: Balancing Academics and Athletics in Higher Education. His research for this book was funded by a grant from the Spencer Foundation.