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.
Aimed at anyone seeking to enhance their understanding of the intercollegiate athletics landscape, College Athletes' Rights and Well-Beingis divided into four sections. The first lays out the historical foundations that have shaped the intercollegiate athletic experience. Subsequent sections describe the principles, structures, and conditions that influence how athletes experience campus life, as well as the increasingly commercialized business enterprise of college sports.
Told from the perspective of athletes and written by leading scholars and researchers, the book's sixteen chapters are enhanced with useful lists of key terms and conversation-provoking discussion questions. Touching on everything from concussion protocols and collective bargaining to amateurism, Title IX's gender-separate allowance, and conference realignment, this important book is designed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, educators, practitioners, policy makers, athletic administrators, and advocates of college athletes.
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction., by John R. Thelin Part One 1. The Muzzle and the Megaphone, by Valyncia C. Raphael and J.P. Abercrumbie Part Two 2. The National Letter of Intent, by Ellen J. Staurowsky 3. Amateurism and the NCAA Cartel, by Robert Scott Lemons 4. Title IX's Gender-Separate Allowance in the Context of College Athlete Rights and Intercollegiate Athletics Reform, by Jennifer Lee Hoffman 5. The State of Concussion Protocols, by Whitney Griffin 6. 4-4 Transfer Restrictions on College Football and Athlete Freedom, by Gerald Gurney 7. Due Process in College Sports, by Steven J. Silver 8. College Athletes and Collective Bargaining Laws, by Neal H. Hutchens and Kaitlin A. Quigley Part Three 9. Commercialism in College Sports Undermines Athletes' Educational Opportunities and Rights, by Angela Lumpkin 10. Conference Realignment and the Evolution of New Organizational Forms, by Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery 11. Competitive Equity, by Andy Schwarz and Daniel A. Rascher Part Four 12. Looking underneath the Helmet, by Jamel K. Donnor 13. Athletic Scholarship Arrangement, by Kealii Troy Kukahiko and Mitchell J. Chang 14. Intervention Strategies for Improving College Athletes' Academic and Personal Development Outcomes at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, by Joseph N. Cooper and Eddie Comeaux 15. Revisiting African American Males and Highlighting Pacific Islander/Polynesian Male Experiences, by C. Keith Harrison, Leticia Osequera, Jean Boyd, and Monica Morita 16. Activism in College Athletics, by Emmett Gill, Jr. Afterword Restoring Balance, by Scott N. Brooks Contributors Index
""With ongoing legal action and mounting social activism challenging the current NCAA model of college sport in the US, the release of this volume could hardly be more timely. Comeaux brings together contributions from leading scholars and professionals to examine college sports policy and practice from historical, legal, financial, labor, and academic perspectives... an excellent resource for auxiliary reading in any course that studies the sociological or cultural impacts of college sport in the US.""
