1st Edition

College Sports and Institutional Values in Competition Leadership Challenges

By Jennifer Lee Hoffman Copyright 2020
202 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

College Sports and Institutional Values in Competition interrogates the relationship between athletics and higher education, exploring how college athletics departments reflect many characteristics of their institutions and are also susceptible to the same challenges in delivering on their mission. Chapters cover the historical contexts and background of campus athletics, issues and... Read more

Foreword by James Soto Antony

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: College Sports and Institutional Values

Chapter 2: ‘Going To A D1 School’

Chapter 3: Towns, Colleges, and Their Sports

Chapter 4: The Front Porch, Campus Mission and The Market

Chapter 5: Championships, Spectacle, and Subsidy

Chapter 6: Professionalized Pursuits, Educational Impacts

Chapter 7: Is Separate Still Equal?

Chapter 8: The Right Kind of Activism

Chapter 9: ‘Low Profile, Decentralized, and Incremental’

Chapter 10: Change is Already Here

Biography

Jennifer Lee Hoffman is an Associate Professor in the College of Education’s Center for Leadership in Athletics at the University of Washington, USA. Dr. Hoffman was the recipient of ASHE’s 2021 Special Merit Award.