{"id":420,"date":"2017-01-24T20:19:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library19.providence.edu\/fhertr\/?p=420"},"modified":"2017-01-24T20:19:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:19:36","slug":"misplaced-priorities-in-college-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/2017\/01\/24\/misplaced-priorities-in-college-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Misplaced Priorities in College Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post article, \u201cMisplaced Priorities in College Sports,”<\/a>\u00a0describes the competition among colleges to outdo one another in building lavish athletic facilities and what the Post’s Editorial Board sees as a misplaced use of resources. The article takes institutions, including Clemson University and the University of Maryland, to task for ignoring the missions of their institutions and instead \u201cpandering to the fantasies of 18 year olds.\u201d They argue that an unfair burden falls on student fees and state taxes to pay for multi-million dollar athletic facilities.<\/p>\n

In response to this, SUNYCON 2016 (Degrees of Influence: The Forces Shaping the Future of Higher Education, October 27-28, 2016) dedicated a plenary discussion to this topic. Leaders in college athletics including the President of the NCAA, the Chair of the Knight Commission, and the Editor and Co-Founder of Inside Higher Ed, discuss whether the media portrayal of student athletics is fair. The speakers state\u00a0they wish more attention could be paid to positive stories of individual student success.\u00a0They understand first-hand how college athletics prepare students for life outside of college. As an example,\u00a0Kim Donaldson, Co-Founder and CEO of Excelle Sports (a multimedia platform dedicated to coverage of women\u2019s sports) states that 80% of female C-Level executives was active\u00a0in competitive sports in college, but that statistic is not widely known or shared. The remainder of the session discusses the benefits and challenges of college sports for students and for institutions of higher education as a whole. A recording of the session can be viewed here: https:\/\/livestream.com\/hvccstreaming\/SUNYCON2016\/videos\/140359060<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post article, \u201cMisplaced Priorities in College Sports,”\u00a0describes the competition among colleges to outdo one another in building lavish athletic facilities and what the Post’s Editorial Board sees as a misplaced use of resources. The article takes institutions, including Clemson University and the University of Maryland, to task for ignoring the missions of their … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}