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A carregar... Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education (2000)por Murray Sperber
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This book is a must read for anybody studying the financial state of higher education in the u.s. It is also for anybody who thinks that they are a college sports fan. It is for all taxpayers and for parents who are sending their kids to college. It is an outstanding piece of scholarship with the author openly admiting that what motivates people to attend college, and why they pick the schools they pick needs much more indepth study. He also admits that the role of sports at large public and private insitutions needs more study and that the financial books for athletic departments needs to be subject to sunshine laws. ( ) Very compelling read if you are interested in the state of higher education. The author breaks down the sports system that sucks up so many resources from undergraduate education. He looks at how undergraduates subsidize graduate programs and debunks the myth that a winning sports program translates into more donations. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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A no-holds-barred examination of the troubled relationship between college sports and higher education from a leading authority on the subject Murray Sperber turns common perceptions about big-time college athletics inside out. He shows, for instance, that contrary to popular belief the money coming in to universities from sports programs never makes it to academic departments and rarely even covers the expense of maintaining athletic programs. The bigger and more prominent the sports program, the more money it siphons away from academics. Sperber chronicles the growth of the university system, the development of undergraduate subcultures, and the rising importance of sports. He reveals television's ever more blatant corporate sponsorship conflicts and describes a peculiar phenomenon he calls the "Flutie Factor"--the surge in enrollments that always follows a school's appearance on national television, a response that has little to do with academic concerns. Sperber's profound re-evaluation of college sports comes straight outof today's headlines and opens our eyes to a generation of students caught in a web of greed and corruption, deprived of the education they deserve. Sperber presents a devastating critique, not only of higher education but of national culture and values.Bear & Circus is a must-read for all students and parents, educators and policy makers. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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