Jay M. Smith, Mary Willingham

Cheated (eBook, PDF)

The UNC Scandal, the Education of Athletes, and the Future of Big-Time College Sports

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In 2010 allegations of an utterly corrupt academic system for student-athletes emerged at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, home of the legendary Tar Heels. Written by UNC professor of history Jay Smith and UNC athletics department whistleblower Mary Willingham, Cheated recounts the story of academic fraud in UNC's athletics department, even as university leaders focused on minimizing the damage in order to keep the billion-dollar college sports revenue machine functioning. Smith and Willingham make an impassioned argument that the "student-athletes" in these programs are being cheated out of what, after all, they are promised in the first place: a college education. Updated with a new epilogue, the paperback edition of Cheated carries the narrative through the defining events of 2017, including the landmark Wainstein report, the findings of which UNC leaders initially embraced only to push aside in an audacious strategy of denial with the NCAA, ultimately even escaping punishment for offering sham coursework. The ongoing fallout from this scandal-and the continuing spotlight on the failings of college athletics, which are hardly unique to UNC-has continued to inform the debate about how the $16 billion college sports industry operates and influences colleges and universities nationwide.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781612347493
• Artikelnr.: 72454667

Autorenporträt

Jay M. Smith is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has served in a variety of administrative capacities involving the management of undergraduate education. Mary Willingham worked in the Center for Student Success and Academic Counseling at UNC–Chapel Hill until 2014. Both she (in 2013) and Smith (in 2014) received the Robert Maynard Hutchins Award from the Drake Group for integrity in the face of college sports corruption. Willingham now works as a middle school reading teacher for Kipp Public Charter Schools in Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures    
List of Tables    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction: The Scandal beneath the Scandals    
Abbreviations    
Chapter 1. Paper-Class Central    
Chapter 2. A Fraud in Full    
Chapter 3. The Making of a Cover-up    
Chapter 4. Lost Opportunities    
Chapter 5. The University Doubles Down    
Chapter 6. On a Collision Course    
Chapter 7. “No one ever asked me to write anything before”    
Chapter 8. Tricks of the Trade    
Chapter 9. Echoes across the Land    
Conclusion: Looking to the Future    
Epilogue    
Notes    
Index