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Looking Underneath The Helmet: Learning How African American Football College Athletes Navigate Sports, Education, And Expectations, Jamel K. Donnor
Looking Underneath The Helmet: Learning How African American Football College Athletes Navigate Sports, Education, And Expectations, Jamel K. Donnor
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College athletes are at the very center of emerging campus debates over their legal, financial, and academic role. Amid ongoing litigation and pressure from internal and external stakeholders, many policy makers and university leaders are scrambling to determine the nature of this role. This timely and comprehensive volume identifies and discusses bylaws and legal decisions that have impacted the college athlete’s ability to pursue higher education. It also explains and critiques the formal policies of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and member institutions while examining critical issues relevant to the growing fields of sport management, athletic administration, and sports law. …
Football Memorabilia, Tattoos, And The Fall Of Jim Tressel At The Ohio State, Jamel K. Donnor, Collin D. William Jr.
Football Memorabilia, Tattoos, And The Fall Of Jim Tressel At The Ohio State, Jamel K. Donnor, Collin D. William Jr.
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This timely book highlights the impact that sports have on institutions of higher education and guides college leaders and educators in informed discussions of policy and practice. Scandals in College Sports includes 21 classic and contemporary case studies and ethical dilemmas showcasing challenges that threatened the integrity and credibility of intercollegiate sports programs at a range of institutional types across the country. Cases cover NCAA policy violations and ethical dilemmas involving student-athletes, coaches, and other stakeholders, including scandals of academic misconduct, illegal recruiting practices, sexual assault, inappropriate sexual relationships, hazing, concussions, and point shaving. Each chapter author explores the details …
Parent(S): The Biggest Influence In The Education Of African- American Football Student-Athletes, Jamel K. Donnor
Parent(S): The Biggest Influence In The Education Of African- American Football Student-Athletes, Jamel K. Donnor
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"African American parental involvement in education is inextricably linked with improving the political and economic standing of their children. In The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935, James Anderson (1988} chronicles the efforts of ex-slaves to "establish schools for their own children" (p. 15). According to Anderson {1988), the Negroes, labors were grounded in the "belief that education could help raise freed people to an appreciation of their historic responsibility to develop a better society and that any significant reorganization of the southern political economy was indissolubly linked to their education in the principles, duties, and obligations appropriate to …