Make Student Athletics Fees Non-Mandatory
Last summer I testified before the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on the subject of student activity fees and suggested that one way state lawmakers can appropriately seek to rein in college costs for students would be to make student activity fees at public institutions non-mandatory (by allowing students to opt-out of [...]
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CCAP In the News
A few prominent media hits for CCAP during the past week or two: In a special project on student loans, The Guardian uses CCAP research for statistics on student-loan debt, underemployment, and related information. The Huffington Post reports on college graduates working minimum-wage jobs and underemployment. The Philadelphia Daily News references CCAP for an article on student debt and collegiate [...]
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Heading in the Right Direction
Yesterday’s InsideHigherEd reports on an interesting new development down in the Peach State. The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has announced that it will assume some direct oversight authority over the athletics programs at the System’s institutions (none of which have their own separate Board). Previous System policy left control of [...]
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CCAP In the News: March Madness Edition
CCAP’s Faculty Fellow David Ridpath has been interviewed by major media outlets during the past month. A few highlights follow: USA Today asked for his opinion on Miami University’s scuffle with the NCAA over an ongoing investigation: The New York Times discussed the benefits and costs for Florida Atlantic University from letting a private prison [...]
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Chart of the Week: Subsidies for Intercollegiate Athletics
USA Today maintains a wonderful database on sports spending for more than 220 public colleges and universities across the country (they obtained the data through public records requests). This database, along with reporting total revenue and total expenses for athletic departments, also reports data on an institution’s “total subsidy;” that is, the amount of money [...]
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The End of the Public Ivies?
What with all of the recent news about the sudden expansion of the so-called “Big Ten” Conference in collegiate athletics, now to include 14 members, does this mean we must dispense with the notion that many of the institutions comprising that athletic conference are any longer “Public Ivies“? After all, they don’t appear to be [...]
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College Sports DO Have Positive Spillover Effects!
While I have wondered before whether college athletics really have the benefits so often attributed to them, it turns out that they do, in fact, have some rather important positive externalities. It’s just those spillover effects are not necessarily the kind one would immediately think of when addressing the topic of college athletics. In a [...]
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Say it Ain’t So!
There is much to commend the for-profit Christian school, Grand Canyon University, in this profile Paul Fain did for InsideHigherEd. Seeking to add NCAA Division I athletics is not one of them.
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CCAP in the News
Bloomberg Businessweek examined student-loan debt and the burden it places on students. After students hear that student-loan debt is “good debt” and college is sold as something with guaranteed value, the reality sometimes isn’t as rosy. Writer Peter Coy quotes Richard Vedder: Some day, low-cost online education that requires zero student borrowing may displace a [...]
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Are University Presidents Really in Charge?
Brad Wolverton and Andrea Fuller of the Chronicle of Higher Education filed a report recently that demonstrates a disturbing trend among major American universities: that college presidents may not have clear authority over their athletic programs at their schools. Reviewing the contractual language of the presidents and chancellors of the 25 schools with the largest athletic programs in [...]
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