Research Blog #6

This is a visual showing how many men's scholarship the football program obtained in the 2013-2014 season. It helps us understand the monopoly of Football at Rutgers compared to all other men's programs (or lack there of), and shows the plain disregard other programs are shown because of their financial?revenue capacities

Research Blog #5

Carpenter, Linda Jean, and R. Vivian Acosta. Title IX. Champaign, Il: Human Kinetics, 2005

"Data: Cutting Sports Fuels More than Football." SportsBusiness Daily SportsBusiness Daily Global. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2017.

Finn Jr., Chester E. "The Cost of College Sports." American Jewish Committee. Oct. 2001, vol. 112, issue 3, p.53, 5p.

"Rutgers Revisited: Coalition to Save Our Sports Responds to Rutgers Media Statement." Swimming World News. N.p., 27 July 2014. Web. 14 Apr. 2017.

Sargeant, Keith. "Rutgers to Distribute Some Athletes $4K in Cost of Attendance Stipend." NJ.com. NJ, 28 July 2015. Web. 14 Apr. 2017. <http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2015/07/rutgers_ad_julie_hermann_cost_of_attendance.html>.

Schneider, Raymond G. "COLLEGE STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS ON THE PAYMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDENT-ATHLETES." College Student Journal. June, 2001, vol 31, issue p.232

"The NCAA Division I Athletic Funding Crisis." ASHE Higher Education Report 41.5 (2015): 25-47. ASHE Higher Education Report. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Aug. 2015. Web. 12 Mar. 2017.

"Title IX and Men's "Minor" Sports: A False Conflict." National Women's Law Center. July, 2008.

Literature Review #1

     Carpenter, Linda Jean, and R. Vivian Acosta. Title IX. Champaign, Il: Human Kinetics, 2005.


The book is about male and female equality in sports and in social life through Title IX, and what implications this has on society in general. The book interprets policies and regulations of the Title IX saga, and it goes through the process of getting to this decision.

Carpenter has been involved in Title IX and gender equity issues in sport for over 30 years, and she is sought after after to speak at multiple conferences. She is also a professor at New York's Brooklyn College, and has received numerous awards for her work on sport equality and so on. Dr. Acosta is a former president of the NAGWS (National Association for Girls and Women in Sport), and has been involved in this kind of work for more than 30 years as well. She works with Carpenter at New York's Brooklyn College, and has written quite a bit on the topic as well.

One obvious key term defined in the very beginning of the book is Title IX, which basically states that "no person in the U.S shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance"
Specifically for higher education sports, allocation of resources should be distributed fairly equal for both male and females as a whole, and if institutions cannot prove that the interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex are not being met then, they are liable for convocation with the board of NCAA to explain themselves.

"In providing financial assistance to any of its students, a recipient shall not on the basis of sex, provide different amount.. of such assistance, [or] limit eligibility for such assistance" (66).
"The policy interpretations tell us that financial aid dollars need to be distributed in "substantially equal amounts""(69)
"The policy interpretations graciously provide two acceptable excuses for not meeting the "substantially equal" yardstick: (1) imbalances created by non-discriminatory grants of in-state versus out-of-state-fees and (2) when not all financial aid available in a given year is distributed so that a new team is able to stagger grants over the first few years of the team's existence." (71)

So, what I would like to address is the lack of scholarships, or simply the lack of interest to fund scholarships for a Men's tennis program at Rutgers New Brunswick. I will attempt to break down all the pieces impeding this from happening, and find out why Men's tennis is one of the D1 collegiate disciplines that has taken a back seat to the football program (a lack-luster football program now to say the least).

Research blog #3

 Academic sources for my research

 The NCAADivision 1 Funding Crisis

 COLLEGE STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS ON THE PAYMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDENT-ATHLETES 

The Cost of College Sports

Corporate Sponsorships in Schools: Altruism and Ethical Judgments.

Book: Universities in the marketplace : the commercialization of higher education /

 
  My research has gotten a little broader from just men's tennis to most of the other popular collegiate sport programs not funded here at Rutgers (volleyball, swimming,etc) . This is to understand what kind of people in general colleges are seeking to attract according to what programs are funded (more specifically Rutgers). The fact these sports are also perceived as somewhat "higher class" and what not, and still not included in a budget that could be boosted by them is a question I would like to dig up as much information as possible to answer. Is it that these institutions are so blinded by the money they will be able to put in their pockets after, or are they really trying to help these "student athletes" create a path for themselves? Dr. Ronald B. Woods says that "major college sport programs are run as corporate businesses that pay no taxes". He goes on to say that most schools want to at least "break even", and if they are able to get an invitation to post-season games there they are able to cash in a little more. One website talks about schools fighting back though. Schools and students (even student athletes) are fighting extra charges on their tuition to help pay for fields and departments they will never set foot in. 
Key terms that have helped so far are: college sports funding, intercollegiate funding, NCAA finances, financing school sports
Scholarly articles: Washington post, forbes, human kinetics. Wikipedia is also a big help..
Books: Ethics and college sports 

A couple of ideas I got from this research is an even bigger picture about who used to play these sports more, who plays these sports now, how college sports are run financially, what new perks teams receive with exposure, and a couple more things
Resources: http://www.humankinetics.com/excerpts/excerpts/intercollegiate-athletic-programs-effect-on-university-enrollment-fundraising
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/why-students-foot-the-bill-for-college-sports-and-how-some-are-fighting-back/2015/11/30/7ca47476-8d3e-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story.html?utm_term=.3c2f19a68e22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Intercollegiate_Athletics
There are a couple of controversies in this topic; starting with who is helping fund these programs, how these programs are not really using all the funding for their operations but rather to increase their yearly  salaries, and how the weak programs get caught because athletic directors don't want their record to be tarnished by some under-par teams.

  My research will  be mainly focused on digging deep into the lack of certain athletic programs here at Rutgers, whether it is a financial problem or another issue that is rooted even deeper. Why have all these programs been taken away by one sport and what are the logistics or numbers behind it