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shareholders are the universities that expect to earn revenue from their athletics teams. The NCAA has a responsibility towards both groups. As a national organization, they would want to protect the rights of the individuals in order to defend student athletes from exploitation and from being taken advantage of. This meant that students could not be used for advertising or marketing purposes. However, the NCAA

Because of the popularity of the sport, colleges and universities and occasionally local communities have been investing an enormous money in infrastructure for their teams. According the star-telegram site, “Nowhere is that more prevalent than in big-time college football, where 38 schools spent more than $20 million on their programs last year. Alabama led with more than $41 million in expenses, according to information obtained from the Department of Education. Auburn was second with $36 million

Community Engagement Strategic Plan Research question The study on best practices of publically engaged institutions in the lower Rio Grande Valley (south Texas), namely the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), as a new consolidated entity, will be examined over a seven-week timeframe using a SWOT analysis method. The hypothesis used for this study implies that comprehensive efforts must be coordinated across each sector of the regional community and remain supported by the most relevant

topics in many different ways. Writers can tell a story, write about something interesting, or even paint a picture in the minds of their readers. To engage her readers about the number of law students who passed the bar exam, a chair member at Ohio State University of Law argues on the topic. Based on the author’s reasoning towards her topic, she makes a causation argument as well as a proposal argument. She further goes on with approaches such as ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade her readers. In her

and then transferring to a university of their choice or going to a two-year college and getting a job after their two years. Both of these options are really good but most people still chose to go to a four-year

An article written by Horace Mitchell called, “Students Are Not Professional Athletes”, caught my attention the moment I read the title. In the article, Mitchell said “Collegiate sports is not a career or profession. It is the students ' vehicle to a higher education degree.” Meaning that you only play college sport for four year, if that. You are at college to get an education and to get a job after and start your life. There are only a select number of collegiate athletes that will go to the professionals

Stephen Spielberg, a famous Hollywood director and a founding pioneers of Hollywood era, who was born in a small town in Ohio, moved to Los Angeles for his higher studies and graduated in California state university, long beach, where he learnt about his interests into movies. Another general benefit of studying abroad is problems of global warming, terrorism, population and various other alarming issues can be discussed

With the universities pulling in more than twelve billion dollars, the rate of growth for college athletics surpasses companies like McDonalds and Chevron (Finkel, 2013). The athletes claim they are making all the money, but do not see a dime of this revenue. The age-old notion that the collegiate athletes are amateurs and students, binds them into not being paid by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). This pay for play discussion has been talked about since the early 1900s but recently

non-traditional students, universities need to provide resources and incentives to this sector of students. In American in the mid 1970’s, only 30% of all jobs required higher education (Gonzalez). Today, the reality is that 63% now require post-secondary education (Gonzalez). The immense number of job losses in the last few years due to the declining economy has had a large impact on the non-traditional student population. With this growing trend in education, universities need to compete

College Athletes Do Not Get As Much Compensation As They Deserve College athletes do not get the amount of compensation they deserve because they make a lot of money for the universities and they are not getting any of the income they produce. Also college athletes do not have time to work, and with all the expenses on top of a scholarships. Which scholarships do not cover all expenses. A lot of them are having a hard time keeping their grades up, playing a sport, and keeping a steady income