The Faculty's Role in Reforming College Sports

Last fall, the author addressed the AAUP's 2003 governance conference about a faculty-led initiative to reform college sports. The Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA) grew out of a meeting one afternoon in the student union at the University of Oregon among a few senior professors who...

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Published in:Academe 2004-09, Vol.90 (5), p.53-57
Main Author: Earl, James W.
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic conferences
College Athletics
College Faculty
College sports
Cooperative Planning
Economic bubbles
Education reform
Educational Change
Financial budgets
Governance
Intercollegiate Cooperation
Leadership Responsibility
Oregon
Program Development
School campuses
School faculty
Sports
Sports fandom
Teacher Role
United States Senate
Universities
Upper houses
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Summary:Last fall, the author addressed the AAUP's 2003 governance conference about a faculty-led initiative to reform college sports. The Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA) grew out of a meeting one afternoon in the student union at the University of Oregon among a few senior professors who had recently been appointed to the faculty senate. Those who get involved in faculty governance, on campus and on virtually every other U.S. campus, quickly become bothered by athletics. It dawns on them that the firewall between academics and athletics is thin; in fact, it can barely hide an awful contradiction in the university they love. This article tells the story of how the commercialization of intercollegiate athletics can threaten academic values, but working together, professors are able to forge a new model of the academics-athletics connection.
ISSN:0190-2946
2162-5247
DOI:10.2307/40252678