The game of life
Subtitle: college sports and educational values
By: James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen ; in collaboration with Lauren A. Meserve and Roger C. Schonfeld.
Contributors: Bowen, William G.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
Subjects: College sports -- United States; Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States
Description: "Shulman and Bowen celebrate the benefits of collegiate sports, while identifying the subtle ways in which athletic intensification can pull even prestigious institutions from their missions. By examining how athletes and other graduates view the game of life - and how colleges play a role in shaping society's view of what its rules should be - Shulman and Bowen go far beyond sports.

They tell us about higher education today: the ways in which colleges set policies, reinforce or neglect their core mission, and send signals about what matters."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-430) and index.
Table of contents: title: The institutionalization and regulation of college sports in historical perspective; title: The admissions game: recruiting male athletes and the implications of selection; title: The college game: academic outcomes for men; title: Men's lives after college: advanced study, jobs, earnings; title: The development of women's athletic programs; title: New players: the recruitment and admission of women athletes; title: Women athletes in college; title: Women's lives after college: advanced study, family, jobs, earnings; title: Leadership; title: Giving back; title: The financial equation: expenditures and revenues; title: Key empirical findings; title: Taking stock; title: Thinking ahead: impediments to change and proposed direction.