Charles T Clotfelter

Big-Time Sports in American Universities

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Produktbeschreibung

This book expands on the argument that spectator sports, despite their problems, have become a central function of American universities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9781108431392
• ISBN-10: 1108431399
• Artikelnr.: 53166825

Autorenporträt

Charles Clotfelter is Professor of Public Policy at Duke University, North Carolina, where he received his Bachelors. He received a Doctorate in Economics from Harvard. He has written four other books on education and economics, including Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity (2017), After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation (2004) (winner of the Gladys Kammerer prize), and Buying the Best (1996). He also co-authored two other books, including Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America (1990). In 2011, he was selected to give the Spencer Foundation Award Lecture, and in 2015 he was elected to the National Academy of Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Commercial Sports as a University Function: 1. Strange bedfellows
2. Priorities
3. The bigness of 'big time'
Part II. The Uses of Big-Time College Sports: 4. Consumer product, mass obsession
5. Commercial enterprise
6. Institution builder
7. Beacon for campus culture
Part III. Reckoning: 8. Ends and means
9. Prospects for reform
Appendices.