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Share On the podcast yesterday we were giving our higher ed predictions for 2010. My prediction was around college athletics; predicting we will see a bigger push to slow athletic spending especially around coach’s salaries. Today Inside Higher Ed published an article today titled Curbing Athletic Spending that discusses a group trying to change the [...]
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Share Last week I reported Northeastern‘s decision to discontinue their football program, and yesterday fellow Colonial Athletic Association school Hofstra University announces it’s decision follow suit and end their football program. In a open letter to the community they say: After a comprehensive review, the Board of Trustees has, at my recommendation, voted unanimously to [...]
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Share Northeastern announced today it will discontinue their football program. In a letter from Athletic Director Peter Roby to the Northwestern community, Roby outlines the decision as financial. Elevating and sustaining a competitive Division 1 football program would require additional multimillion dollar investments on an ongoing basis. A broad consensus developed behind discontinuing football and [...]
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Share Recently my friend and student affairs colleague Jeff Lail started a blog series about The College Sports Cash Cow. Jeff is a big sports fan, so his posts are not coming from a higher-education elitist and biased position. The Academic Senate at University of California Berkeley must have read Jeff’s blog. Last week The [...]
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