Cheated - Jay M. Smith, Mary Willingham

Cheated

The UNC Scandal, the Education of Athletes, and the Future of Big-Time College Sports
Buch | Softcover
360 Seiten
2019 | New Edition
Potomac Books Inc (Verlag)
978-1-64012-246-8 (ISBN)
21,15 inkl. MwSt
Told from the vantage point of two insiders with a privileged perspective on the individuals and events involved, Cheated examines athletic-academic corruption at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill and in NCAA athletics.
 
In 2010 allegations of an utterly corrupt academic system for student-athletes emerged at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, home of the legendary Tar Heels. Written by UNC professor of history Jay Smith and UNC athletics department whistleblower Mary Willingham, Cheated recounts the story of academic fraud in UNC’s athletics department, even as university leaders focused on minimizing the damage in order to keep the billion-dollar college sports revenue machine functioning. Smith and Willingham make an impassioned argument that the “student-athletes” in these programs are being cheated out of what, after all, they are promised in the first place: a college education. 

Updated with a new epilogue, the paperback edition of Cheated carries the narrative through the defining events of 2017, including the landmark Wainstein report, the findings of which UNC leaders initially embraced only to push aside in an audacious strategy of denial with the NCAA, ultimately even escaping punishment for offering sham coursework. The ongoing fallout from this scandal—and the continuing spotlight on the failings of college athletics, which are hardly unique to UNC—has continued to inform the debate about how the $16 billion college sports industry operates and influences colleges and universities nationwide.    
 

Jay M. Smith is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has served in a variety of administrative capacities involving the management of undergraduate education. Mary Willingham worked in the Center for Student Success and Academic Counseling at UNC–Chapel Hill until 2014. Both she (in 2013) and Smith (in 2014) received the Robert Maynard Hutchins Award from the Drake Group for integrity in the face of college sports corruption. Willingham now works as a middle school reading teacher for Kipp Public Charter Schools in Chicago.

List of Figures    
List of Tables    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction: The Scandal beneath the Scandals    
Abbreviations    
1. Paper-Class Central    
2. A Fraud in Full    
3. The Making of a Cover-up    
4. Lost Opportunities    
5. The University Doubles Down    
6. On a Collision Course    
7. “No one ever asked me to write anything before”    
8. Tricks of the Trade    
9. Echoes across the Land    
Conclusion: Looking to the Future    
Epilogue    
Notes    
Index    
    

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 2 illustrations, 4 tables, 2 graphs, index
Verlagsort Dulles
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Zeitgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
Wirtschaft
Weitere Fachgebiete Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-64012-246-X / 164012246X
ISBN-13 978-1-64012-246-8 / 9781640122468
Zustand Neuware
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