Educated Ignorance: What Faculty Don’t Know and Why Faculty Can’t Lead Intercollegiate Athletics Reform

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  • Travis Feezell University of the Ozarks

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17161/jas.v1i1.4925

Abstract

Contemporary writings on the tension of athletics and academics in American higher education have often focused on the incompatibility of sporting endeavors and institutional missions. In particular, scholarship has stressed the ills of a financially directed collegiate sports machine at odds with the general educational aims of colleges and universities. However, this essay attempts to examine the historical and structural traditions of higher education, particularly those surrounding faculty, as a means of evaluating the tension. Moreover, the essay suggests a radical re-evaluation of those structures as a means to ameliorate the ongoing scandal in our institutions.

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Published

2015-06-16

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How to Cite

Feezell, T. (2015). Educated Ignorance: What Faculty Don’t Know and Why Faculty Can’t Lead Intercollegiate Athletics Reform. Journal of Amateur Sport, 1(1), 81-100. https://doi.org/10.17161/jas.v1i1.4925