Navigating the Ethically Complex and Controversial World of College . . . The college athletics environment within the USA is ethically complex and often controversial From an academic standpoint, athletes are often viewed as a privileged class receiving undue benefit Yet closer inspection reveals that student athletes
Division I Intercollegiate Athletics Success and the Financial Impact . . . Large ethical concerns persist within college athletics Walter Byers, who served as NCAA executive director from 1951 to 1987, was charged with the dual mission of keeping intercollegiate athletics clean while generating millions of dollars each year for the colleges
Journal of Applied Sport Management - University of Tennessee system In her 1989 study of college athletics, Blinde concluded, “Both the demands of sport and the limited contact athletes have with peers alienate them from the rest of the student body – an outcome that indeed runs counter to the stated purposes of intercollegiate sport” (p 115)
College sports governance: “Amateurism” enforcement in big time college . . . A major element of college sports governance is the enforcement of “amateurism”, that is, no pay beyond the grant-in-aid Enforcement is a joint venture by university administrators through their National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) that preserves this interesting definition of amateurism and the wealth transfer it creates
Addressing Gender Inequities in Collegiate Sport - SAGE Journals As the predominant intercollegiate sport governance orga-nization in the United States, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is ripe for an analysis of gender issues in sport governance
Addressing Gender Inequities in Collegiate Sport: Most of the previous research on gender-equity issues in intercollegiate athletics has centered on tracking the number of women in athletics, identifying both workplace barriers and personal barriers, as well as identifying strategies to address perceived barriers