Archive for February, 2012
College Sports Reform
Posted by mab86@duke.edu in Audio, Events on February 29, 2012
Charles Clotfelter discusses College Sports Reform on WUNC’s “The State of Things”
Tuesday, February 28 2012 by Alex Granados and Frank Stasio
Big time college sports like basketball and football have a contradictory reputation at many universities. They bring in big bucks and engender loyalty to a school, but they also distract from higher education’s primary mission. Are reforms necessary in the college sports system? Host Frank Stasio talks to Dave Dewitt, WUNC’s education reporter and a former college basketball player and coach; Charles Clotfelter, professor of public policy, economics and law at Duke University and author of “Big-Time Sports in American Universities” (Cambridge University Press/2011); and Will Blythe, editor-at-large of Byliner and author of “To Hate Like This is to be Happy Forever” (Harper/2007), which chronicles the UNC-Duke basketball rivalry.
Listen to Charles Clotfelter on the Value of Big-Time College Sports
Or, visit the WUNC website for more information and media.
Charles Clotfelter featured on CSPAN BOOKTV
Posted by mab86@duke.edu in Events, Press, Video on February 15, 2012
Charles Clotfelter looks at the impact of commercial-level sports at universities in the United States and assesses what this has meant for the system of higher learning. He showed some pictures and charts during his presentation and he responded to questions from members of the audience.
“College Sports: You got a problem with that?” was a Shaftesbury Society luncheon talk at the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina.
CSPAN BOOKTV aired the talk on February 13, 2012, and it is available for online viewing here.