(Free) Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education
• Murray Sperber •
| #24942 in Books | Murray Sperber | 2001-09-01 | 2001-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.77 x5.50l,.70 | File Name: 0805068112 | 352 pages | Beer and Circus How Big Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education
||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Partly right, but missing a lot|By Fred Ringwald|Professor Murray Sperber presents a critique of giant, public, Research I/Division I universities, particularly of the low quality of education that many of their undergraduates get. It is well written and an entertaining read, and much of the criticism is spot-on correct. I think he misses some key points, though.
|From Publishers Weekly|A stunning outline of the contemporary educational landscape, Sperber's book provides a stark analysis of academia's abandonment of its undergraduate students. Alluding to the ancient Roman practice of placating people with cheap bread an
In this fascinating book, Sperber uses original research culled from students, faculty, and administrators around the country, to argue that what universities offer instead of a meaningful undergraduate education is a meager and dangerous substitute: the party scene surrounding college sports that Sperber calls "beer and circus" and which serves to keep the students happy while tuition dollars keep rolling in. He explodes cherished myths about college sports, showing...
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