October 26, 2001
Top Liberal-Arts Colleges Reconsider Role of Athletics
The publication this year of The Game of Life touched a nerve with many college presidents, athletics administrators, and faculty members. Its authors, William G. Bowen and James L. Shulman, of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, argued that the academic careers of college athletes and their lives at a select group of institutions indicated that athletics was causing certain social and educational problems far beyond the well-documented corruption in the largest programs in the National
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