1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965447003321

Autore

Shulman James Lawrence <1965->

Titolo

The game of life : college sports and educational values : with a new preface by the authors / / James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen ; in collaboration with Lauren A. Meserve and Roger C. Schonfeld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2002, c2001

ISBN

9786613831675

9781283519229

1283519224

9781400840694

1400840694

Edizione

[With a New preface by the authors]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (496 pages)

Collana

The William G. Bowen Series ; ; 62

Altri autori (Persone)

BowenWilliam G

MeserveLauren A

SchonfeldRoger C. <1977->

Disciplina

796.04/3/0973

Soggetti

College sports - United States

Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Princeton University Press e-book."--Cover.

First paperback printing, with new preface, 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-430) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Prelude: Four Snapshots -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Institutionalization and Regulation of College Sports in Historical Perspective -- Chapter 2. The Admissions Game: Recruiting Male Athletes and the Implications of Selection -- Chapter 3. The College Game: Academic Outcomes for Men -- Chapter 4. Men's Lives after College: Advanced Study, Jobs, Earnings -- Chapter 5. The Development of Women's Athletic Programs -- Chapter 6. New Players: The Recruitment and Admission of Women Athletes -- Chapter 7. Women Athletes in College -- Chapter 8. Women's Lives after College: Advanced Study, Family, Jobs, Earnings -- Chapter 9. Leadership -- Chapter 10. Giving Back -- Chapter 11. The Financial Equation: Expenditures and Revenues -- Chapter 12. Key Empirical Findings -- Chapter 13. Taking Stock -- Chapter 14. Thinking Ahead: Impediments



to Change and Proposed Directions -- Appendix A: Scorecards -- Appendix B: Supplementary Data -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 1950's, 1970's, and 1990's. 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 different goals and values than their classmates--differences that lead to different lives. They reveal that gender equity efforts have wrought large, sometimes unanticipated changes. And they show that the alumni appetite for winning teams is not--as schools often assume--insatiable. If a culprit emerges, it is the unquestioned spread of a changed athletic culture through the emulation of highly publicized teams by low-profile sports, of men's programs by women's, and of athletic powerhouses by small colleges. Shulman and Bowen celebrate the benefits of collegiate sports, while identifying the subtle ways in which athletic intensification can pull even prestigious institutions from their missions. By examining how athletes and other graduates view The Game of Life--and how colleges shape society's view of what its rules should be--Bowen and Shulman go far beyond sports. They tell us about higher education today: the ways in which colleges set policies, reinforce or neglect their core mission, and send signals about what matters.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967894003321

Titolo

Engaged Research and Practice: Higher Education and the Pursuit of the Public Good

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Routledge, 2023

New York : , : Routledge, , 2023

ISBN

9781003444466

1003444466

9781620364413

1620364417

9781000975888

1000975886

9781000981247

100098124X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Collana

Engaged research and practice for social justice in education

Disciplina

370.72

Soggetti

Action research in education - United States

Community and college - United States

Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - United States

Common good

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword : engaged research and practice : higher education and the pursuit of the public good / Tony Chambers -- Engaged research as the scholarship of practice / Betty Overton -- Framing organizational research and practice toward higher education for the public good / John C. Burkhardt -- Conflating community means with organizational ends : strengthening reciprocity in a multi-sector higher education access partnership / Elizabeth Hudson -- Community agency and college-going culture : the use of participatory action research / Esmeralda Hernandez -- Collaborative approaches to community change : the complexities of power, collaboration and social change /



Penny A. Pasque -- Challenges to diversity : engaged administrative leadership for transformation in contested domains / Cassie L. Barnhardt -- Access points to the American dream : immigrant students in community colleges / Kyle Southern, Teresita Wisell, Jill Casner-Lotto -- Organizational transformation for catalytic social change / Lara Kovacheff Badke -- Undocumented student access to higher education : focused efforts at the federal and institutional levels / Kimberly A. Reyes, Aurora Kamimura, Kyle Southern -- "The problem with our students is that their families don't value education" : undocumented Latino mles / Magdalena Martinez -- Linking state priorities with local strategies : examining the role of communities in postsecondary access and success / Nathan J. Daun-Barnett -- Reflections on lessons learned and next steps / Betty Overton.

Sommario/riassunto

What practices can researchers use to gain a more nuanced understanding of educational issues in the community and be part of the solution to those issues?Engaged Research and Practice is about two prevailing and complementary ideas that have surfaced in the higher education arena: engaged research and higher education for the public good. Engaged research is scholarship that not only attempts to open up new knowledge, but it does so with a sense that the new knowledge, insight and directions have a direct relationship to needs and problems within our communities, institutions, and policy arenas. Engaged, actionable, or participatory research and scholarship attempts to tackle the identified issues of our communities and society. This handbook offers important insights and tangible examples of how higher education leaders may work directly with communities and in policy settings to understand the deeper meanings often lost in conversations about educational opportunity. Each chapter addresses the ways in which faculty, community and administrative leaders may connect research and practice through unique research projects. The authors offer clear explanations of "how" their engaged research was conducted to illustrate explicit pathways for practitioners. This book also includes short narratives where authors involved with this research reflect on their experiences and the lessons they have learned while immersed in community and policy related work.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910142844503321

Titolo

KfW-Gründungsmonitor / KfW-Bankengruppe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt, Main, 2004-

Descrizione fisica

Online-Ressource

Classificazione

3,2

Disciplina

330

360

Soggetti

Zeitschrift

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Gesehen am 31.08.15