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Originally Posted by Izulde
Just got approval to teach a themed freshman comp class next fall. My temporary long title for it is "Repairing The Ivory Tower Games: Money, Race, Academics and Gender In Collegiate Sports".
Obviously I'm going to shorten the title, but I'm pretty excited to be able to get to essentially design my own class in a subject I care about.  |
I had a freshman honors seminar similar to that at KU. We had to major papers on the following three topics:
Title IX
Athletics corps as an arm of the university or not?
Paying Student Athletes
It's evil to put them in that order because you set the students up to have to really critically think about the last one that everyone thinks is such a simple matter. And then they think they're all gung ho about the "Paying student athletes" part when you clobber them from both sides with "So, you've now looked at athletic corps budgets (most are non-profit and use revenue generating sports to support all other sports)" and "If you allow paying student athletes, you have to do it with all sports from football and basketball down to women's crew" so how are you going to do it now.
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