Athletics vs. Education

2019

• Donors Endowed Coaching Positions of Programs to Which Children Applied (IHE 5/13/19)
• New Revelations Link Donations and Admissions at UCLA (IHE 4/15/19)
• UCLA Knew of a Cash-for-admissions Deal, Years Before the Scandal (LAT 4/12/19)

2018

• The NFL is the Fox in the Henhouse of Football-Injury Research (LAT 12/3/18)
• One Day After Reinstatement, Maryland's Head Football Coach Fired (IHE 11/1/18)
• Has the N.C.A.A.’s ‘Student-Athlete’ Fiction Reached Its Logical End? (NYT 10/20/18)
• The Secret Betrayal That Sealed Nike's Special Influence Over the University of Oregon (Pacific Standard 10/18/18)

2017

• UCLA Buying In to a High-Stakes Game, Playing with Big Chip Kelly (LAT 11/24/17)
• UC Berkeley to Tap Academic Funds to Help Bail Out Memorial Stadium (SF Chron 11/3/17)
• Football Favoritism at F.S.U.: The Price One Teacher Paid (NYT 9/1/17)
• Rosen's Ring of Truth? (IHE 8/11/17)

2016

• Enough is Enough: Petition to Suspend Contract Renewal of Football Coach, Damon Harrington (UCBFA 6/30/16)
• More on the High Cost of Intercollegiate Athletics (Academe Blog 6/11/16)
• Many College Athletes Say They Want More Time Away From Sports (CHE 1/12/16)

2015

• Faculty Sharply Divided On Mounting Cost Of College Athletics (Huff Po 12/18/15)
• Why Students Foot the Bill for College Sports, and How Some are Fighting Back (Wash Po 11/30/15)
• Sports At Any Cost (Huff Po 11/15/15)
• In Missouri, the Downfall of a Business-Minded President (Miller and Stuckey French, CHE 11/11/15)
• 3 Lessons From University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe’s Resignation (The Nation 11/9/15)
• Missouri Football Players Boycott in Protest of University President (NYT 11/8/15)
• N.L.R.B. Says Northwestern Football Players Cannot Unionize (NYT 8/17/15)
• Colleges Inflate Full Cost of Attendance Numbers, Increasing Stipends for Athletes (IHE 8/12/15)
• NCAA's Latest Argument Against Paying Players Is 'Nonsense,' Economists Say (Huff Po 5/5/15)
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The NCAA (YouTube 3/15/15)
• Michigan Coaching Situation Shows Presidents Lack Control Over Big-Time Sports (IHE 1/5/15)

2014

• Maybe Colleges Have Gone Too Far with Athletics (LAT 12/31/14)
• University in Alabama Ends Football Program, Angering Just About Everyone (LAT 12/31/14)
• Confessions of a Fixer (CHE 12/30/14)
• What Made College Football More Like the Pros? $7.3 Billion, for a Start (NYT 12/30/14)
• Colleges Turn to Athletics Directors with Business Backgrounds, but Results Vary (IHE 11/7/14)
• UNC Officials Failed To Stop 18-Year Long Student Athlete Academic Fraud (Huff Po 10/22/14)
• Protests and Controversy over how U. of Michigan Responded to Athlete's Concussion (IHE 10/1/14)
• Document: Final Report and Recommendations from Chancellor’s Task Force on Academics & Athletics (Daily Cal 9/26/14)
• Federal Judge: NCAA Violates Antitrust Law (IHE 8/11/14)
• ‘I Was an Athlete Masquerading as a Student’ (CHE 6/10/14)
• Sports | College (USA Today 6/14)
• UCLA Bamboozle: After Pauley Renovation Debacle Guerrero Begs for More Money for New Hoops Facilities (BruinsNation 5/22/14)
• UCLA Football Assistants Get Pay Raise (LAT 5/22/14)
• Coaches, Not Presidents, Top Public-College Pay List (CHE 5/16/14)
• California Colleges May be in Violation of Title IX (IHE 4/22/14)
• Amid National-Title Celebration, Academic Questions Take Center Stage (CHE 4/8/14)
• The UConn Huskies Win ‘NCAA Hunger Games Bingo’ (The Nation 4/8/14)
• Colleges Increasing Spending on Sports Faster Than on Academics, Report Finds (NYT 4/7/14)
• In a Buyer’s Market, Colleges Become Fluent in the Language of Business (NYT 3/27/14)
• Football Players Win Union, for Now (IHE 3/27/14)
• UNC Probe Urged Over Public Attacks on Whistleblower (CNN 3/22/14)
• In Fake Classes Scandal, UNC Fails Its Athletes—and Whistle-Blower (Bloomberg 2/27/14)
• Rutgers Boosts Athletic Subsidies to Nearly $50 Million (IHE 2/25/14)
• UCLA's Jim Mora is Likely Pac-12's Second-Highest Paid Coach at Public School (LAT 2/18/14)
• College Football Players Seek to Form a Labor Union (CHE 1/29/14)
• Chapel Hill Researcher’s Findings on Athletes’ Literacy Bring a Backlash (CHE 1/24/14)
• What the Rest of Division I Thinks (IHE 1/20/14)
• Whistle-Blower Blocked (IHE 1/20/14)
• A Doomed Marriage? (IHE 1/8/14)

2013

• The Skinny on Sports Spending (IHE 12/4/13)
• Lessons from Berkeley's White Elephant Stadium for UCLA, the Regents, and UC? (UCLAFA 12/1/13)
• Cal Admits to Serious Student-Athlete Flaws (SF Gate 11/20/13)
• UCLA's Lawsuit to Retain Baseball Stadium at VA Property Criticized by LA Times (UCLAFA 11/12/13)
• Cal Athletics: Blown Budgets, Abysmal Grad Rates, the Stadium Financing Mess and Sandy Barbour’s Future (Mercury News 10/31/13)
• Cal Football is Even More of a Travesty than we Thought (Michael Meranze 10/27/13)
• Oregon Athletics Used Academic Funds, In Spite of Claims (Oregonian 10/7/10)
• Open Letter from BFA to Senate Chair Betty Deakin – “School first, sports second” (UCBFA 9/24/13)
• Ohio U Faculty Say Athletics Subsidies Incompatible with Educational Mission (IHE 5/20/10)
• On Gift Horses And Trojan Horses: The Proposed Aquatics Center (Celeste Langan 4/24/13)
• Shocker! Delta Finds that Colleges Spent Far More Per Athlete on Athletic Spending that Per Student on Academic Spending (IHE 1/16/13)

2010

• Oregon Athletics Used Academic Funds, In Spite of Claims (Oregonian 10/7/10)
• UCB Eliminates 5 Smaller Academic Programs, Protects Football (NYT 9/29/10)

2009

• UC Berkeley Profs Call for end to sports subsidies (SFC 10/27/09)