Description
Book SynopsisAimed at upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, teachers, practitioners, athletic administrators, and advocates of intercollegiate athletics, Introduction to Intercollegiate Athletics provides readers with up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge about the changes to-and challenges faced by-university athletics programs.
Table of ContentsPreface
Part I: Historical Analysis, Governance and Leadership, and Ethics
Chapter 1: From Sports Page to Front Page: Intercollegiate Athletics and American Higher Education
Chapter 2: Organization and Governance of the NCAA
Chapter 3: Leadership in Intercollegiate Athletics
Chapter 4: Ethical Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics: Purpose Achieved or Challenged?
Part II: Theoretical Perspectives on Higher Education and Athletics
Chapter 5: Theoretical Tenets of Higher Education and College Athletes
Part III: The College Athlete Experience
Chapter 6: Today's College Athlete
Chapter 7: MVP: Predictors of Four-Year Transfer for Community College Athletes
Chapter 8: Intercollegiate Athletics Climate: Effects on Students, Faculty, and Administrators
Part IV: The Business Enterprise of College Athletics
Chapter 9: Taxation of College Sports: Policies and Controversies
Chapter 10: College Sports Spending Decisions and the Academic Mission
Chapter 11: The Business Model of Intercollegiate Sports: The Haves and Have-Notes
Chapter 12: Millionaire College Coaches and the Schools That Pay Them
Part V: The Significance of Race and Ethnicity Issues
Chapter 13: Cross-Racial Interaction of Division I Athletes: The Campus Climate for Diversity
Chapter 14: The Miseducation of African American Male College Athletes
Chapter 15: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Black Feminist Thought When Feminist Discourse and Title IX Weren't Enough
Chapter 16: Conference Realignment and the Demise of the Academic Mission
Part VI: Gender Equity and Compliance Issues
Chapter 17: Effects of Titles IX on Intercollegiate Athletics, 1972-2012
Chapter 18: Key Case Law and Legislation Shaping Women's Opportunity in Intercollegiate Athletics
Chapter 19: Title IX Compliance and Intercollegiate Athletics
Chapter 20: Barriers to Leadership for Women in College Athletics
Part VII: NCAA and Member Institution Policy Concerns
Chapter 21: College Athletes' Rights
Chapter 22: Recruiting in Intercollegiate Athletics
Chapter 23: Intercollegiate Athletics and Amateurism
Chapter 24: Freedoms Lost: Exploring Social Media Policies in Intercollegiate Athletics
Chapter 25: The Atlete and University Contractual Relationship
Part VIII: The Academic Reform Movement
Chapter 26: The Dilemma of Academic Support for College Athletes: Advising to the APR
Chapter 27: College Athletes in Revenue and Nonrevenue Sports: Language, Culture, Identity
Chapter 28: Best Practices in Career Transition Programming for College Athletes
Epilogue: The Changing Landscape of Athletics in American Higher Education
Index
