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Schonfeld 205 $aWith a New preface by the authors 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$d2002, c2001 215 $a1 online resource (496 pages) 225 0 $aThe William G. Bowen Series ;$v62 300 $a"A Princeton University Press e-book."--Cover. 300 $aFirst paperback printing, with new preface, 2002. 311 0 $a0-691-07075-X 311 0 $a0-691-09619-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [423]-430) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Figures --$tList of Tables --$tPreface to the Paperback Edition --$tPrelude: Four Snapshots --$tPreface --$tChapter 1. The Institutionalization and Regulation of College Sports in Historical Perspective --$tChapter 2. The Admissions Game: Recruiting Male Athletes and the Implications of Selection --$tChapter 3. The College Game: Academic Outcomes for Men --$tChapter 4. Men's Lives after College: Advanced Study, Jobs, Earnings --$tChapter 5. The Development of Women's Athletic Programs --$tChapter 6. New Players: The Recruitment and Admission of Women Athletes --$tChapter 7. Women Athletes in College --$tChapter 8. Women's Lives after College: Advanced Study, Family, Jobs, Earnings --$tChapter 9. Leadership --$tChapter 10. Giving Back --$tChapter 11. The Financial Equation: Expenditures and Revenues --$tChapter 12. Key Empirical Findings --$tChapter 13. Taking Stock --$tChapter 14. Thinking Ahead: Impediments to Change and Proposed Directions --$tAppendix A: Scorecards --$tAppendix B: Supplementary Data --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aCollege sports$zUnited States 606 $aEducation, Higher$xAims and objectives$zUnited States 615 0$aCollege sports 615 0$aEducation, Higher$xAims and objectives 676 $a796.04/3/0973 700 $aShulman$b James Lawrence$f1965-$0150425 701 $aBowen$b William G$0121824 701 $aMeserve$b Lauren A$01466520 701 $aSchonfeld$b Roger C.$f1977-$01130277 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789519003321 996 $aThe game of life$93677012 997 $aUNINA