The Game of Life
：College Sports and Educational Values
( The William G. Bowen Memorial Series in Higher Education )
Publication subTitle ：College Sports and Educational Values
Publication series ：The William G. Bowen Memorial Series in Higher Education
Author： Shulman James L.;Bowen William G.;;
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2011
E-ISBN: 9781400840694
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691070759
Subject： G Culture, Science , Education, Sports;G64 Higher Education;G8 P.E
Keyword： 体育,文化、科学、教育、体育
Language： ENG
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Description
The President of Williams College faces a firestorm for not allowing the women's lacrosse team to postpone exams to attend the playoffs. The University of Michigan loses $2.8 million on athletics despite averaging 110,000 fans at each home football game. Schools across the country struggle with the tradeoffs involved with recruiting athletes and updating facilities for dozens of varsity sports. Does increasing intensification of college sports support or detract from higher education's core mission?
James Shulman and William Bowen introduce facts into a terrain overrun by emotions and enduring myths. Using the same database that informed The Shape of the River, the authors analyze data on 90,000 students who attended thirty selective colleges and universities in the 1950s, 1970s, and 1990s. Drawing also on historical research and new information on giving and spending, the authors demonstrate how athletics influence the class composition and campus ethos of selective schools, as well as the messages that these institutions send to prospective students, their parents, and society at large.
Shulman and Bowen show that athletic programs raise even more difficult questions of educational policy for small private colleges and highly selective universities than they do for big-time scholarship-granting schools. They discover that today's athletes, more so than their predecessors, enter college less academically well-prepared and with diffe
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