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By Howard L. Nixon

ISBN-10: 1421411954

ISBN-13: 9781421411958

The unmatched sum of money poured into the school athletic procedure has made activities courses breeding grounds for corruption whereas diverting the most important assets from the educational venture of universities. Like cash in Washington politics, the effect got via a posh set of self-interested actors heavily undermines circulation towards reform whereas trapping universities in a cycle of escalating pageant. Longtime activity sociologist Howard L. Nixon II methods the problem from the point of view of school presidents—how they're seduced via status or careworn by means of economics into development courses that stream faculties towards a advertisement version of athletics.

Nixon situates his research within the context of what he calls "the intercollegiate golden triangle," a robust social community of athletic, media, and personal company advertisement pursuits. This community lures presidents and different college leaders into an athletic palms race with supplies of institutional improvements, elevated enrollments, larger pupil morale, greater alumni loyalty, extra monetary contributions, and better prestige.

These delivers can cloud the judgment of faculty presidents and governing forums, entangling them in an athletic seize that restricts their impression. not able to regulate spending, inequalities, and deviance inside commercialized athletic courses, universities are ensnared in monetary, political, and social duties which are tough to sustain—or get away. Nixon clarifies the constitution of this catch, describes how larger schooling associations fall into it, and explores what it ability for associations and presidents stuck in it.

This well timed research additionally has relevance to the debates concerning the function of the NCAA and ongoing reform efforts in university activities. The Athletic Trap can be of curiosity to school presidents, board participants, and directors, activity sociologists all for the stability of strength among teachers and athletics, and an individual else with a significant curiosity in university activities and its future.

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