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Influence Of Student Engagement On The Career Transition Of Division I Football Student-Athletes, Ronnie Riley
Influence Of Student Engagement On The Career Transition Of Division I Football Student-Athletes, Ronnie Riley
Theses and Dissertations--Kinesiology and Health Promotion
College’s revenue sports, football and men’s basketball, fuel the billion dollar intercollegiate athletics industry. Historically, those same two sports have maintained the lowest grade point average among all student-athletes. This inverse relationship begs the question, “what academic sacrifices are being made at the expense of college’s revenue sports?”
Student engagement into educationally purposeful activities has been widely acknowledged as having influence on desirable college outcomes. The full extent of student engagement’s effect has yet to be determined. The purpose of this study was to conduct exploratory, qualitative research into the role of student engagement in educationally purposeful activities on the …