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Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values by William G. Bowen

By William G. Bowen

In Reclaiming the Game, William Bowen and Sarah Levin disentangle the admissions and educational reviews of recruited athletes, walk-on athletes, and different scholars. In a box beaten by way of reliance on anecdotes, the real findings are striking--and sobering. a person heavily fascinated about greater schooling will locate it tough to need away the proof that athletic recruitment is tricky even at these faculties that don't supply athletic scholarships.

Thanks to a spread of the varsity and past database that led to the hugely influential reviews The form of the River and The online game of Life, the authors may be able to study in nice aspect the backgrounds, educational skills, and school results of athletes and their classmates at thirty-three academically selective schools and universities that don't supply athletic scholarships. They exhibit that recruited athletes at those faculties are up to 4 occasions prone to achieve admission than are different candidates with related educational credentials. the knowledge additionally display that the common recruit is considerably likely to turn out within the backside 3rd of the varsity category than is both the common walk-on or the coed who doesn't play collage activities. much more troubling is the dramatic proof that recruited athletes "underperform:" they do even much less good academically than estimated by way of their try ratings and highschool grades.

Over the final 4 a long time, the athletic-academic divide on elite campuses has widened considerably. This booklet examines the forces which have been using this strategy and provides concrete proposals for reform. At its middle, Reclaiming the Game is an issue for re-establishing athletics as a method of fulfilling--instead of undermining--the academic missions of our faculties and universities.

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Prearranged electronically transmitted correspondence between an authorized institutional staff member and one or more prospects and any electronic correspondence sent by ‘instant messenger’ or similar means shall be considered a telephone call. The use of a pager to contact a prospect is considered a telephone call. 9 It was not always this way. Writing in the Harvard Magazine, Craig Lambert begins a lengthy account of “The Professionalization of Ivy League Sports” with a vivid portrait of the “then-and-now” change that has occurred in racquet sports: In the fall of 1965, at freshman registration, Jack Barnaby, ’32, then head coach of tennis and squash, sat behind his table in Memorial Hall, hoping to interest these freshest of freshmen in racquet sports.

The NCAA has adopted a “National Letter of Intent” early signing date in mid-November, when a student can formally commit to a scholarship program (with informal commitments often coming much earlier). ” Athletes at Brown University beneµt from what the Ofµce of Financial Aid calls its “Early Athletic Reading Process,” which starts in August and provides an initial µnancial aid estimate in the month of September. ”17 As we will see later, one consequence of the early matching of athletes to schools is that the yield on admitted athletes (the percentage of those admitted who elect to enroll) has gone way up.

Similarly, we are indebted once again to Walter Lippincott, director of Princeton University Press; our editor, Peter Dougherty; and their associates at the Press and at Princeton Editorial Associates, including Neil Litt and Peter Strupp. Finally, it is our pleasure to thank the trustees of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their steady support of our work, and for once again allowing us to come to our own conclusions. On a more personal note, Sarah A. Levin thanks, for their support and encouragement, her parents, Jon, Amy, Daniel, Becca, and Christian; and William G.

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