Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education
✍ Scribed by Sperber, Murray
- Book ID
- 107806153
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Co.
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 363 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780805068115
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✦ Synopsis
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....