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Empirical studies have produced mixed results on the relationship between a school's sports success and the quantity … and quality of students that apply to the school. This study uses two unique datasets to shed additional light on the … indirect benefits that sports success provides to NCAA Division I schools. Key findings include: (i) football and basketball …
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athletics departments based on UNESCO sports-specific criteria.Finally, Part IV proposes a reasonable means to reform … intercollegiate sports in the United States. Specifically, the proposal calls for a bifurcated reform of collegiate sports in the U ….S., with a small number of revenue-generating colleges, in a small number of sports, adopting a commercial sports business …
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Colleges compete to attract students by investing in amenities such as athletics, dormitories, and student activities … behavior in the context of Big-Time college sports. We resolve the selection issue using data from a large, public university … bottom of the achievement distribution and driven by in-state students and students attending during seasons when the team …
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This study aims to analyse the determinants of sport science students' entrepreneurial intentions considering the … cultural effect on these relationships. The sample comprises 764 final-year sport science students from five European countries … series of educational policy implications to improve sports science students' employability by developing their …
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In 2015, NCAA Division I schools were permitted to cover the “full cost of attendance” as a part of athletic scholarships for the first time. This policy change allowed schools to provide modest living stipends to its athletes. Each school has autonomy to set its cost-of-attendance allowance...
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from a first-year economics class at a Sino-UK university, we examine how students assess their own and their peers …
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The paper presents the results of research related to students' perception of enhancing their critical thinking during … public universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) in order to investigate students' perception of enhancing their critical … is to find if BH students are aware of the necessity to enhance their critical thinking abilities during their studies in …
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The aim of this paper is to estimate the effects of the expansion of tertiary education supply on the educational choices of young Italian high school graduates. A quasi-experimental setting given by the reform of the tertiary education system implemented in 2001 is exploited. The reform was...
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admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …
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foreign students within university-degree across four cohorts of undergraduate students. Foreign peers have zero to mild …
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