Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Research Blog #2
Since blog #1, my paper idea has changed a bit. I think I'm going to write about something other than sports. Most likely, I want to explore the decision making behind college students and career paths. Everyone these days are always asked "what do you want to be when you're older?" Some people have the answer, but I dont anyone should really have that answer until they've been exposed to all different types of careers.
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This is not much of a "scouting the territory" post. Please expand it a bit with at least some online resources on the topic of careers -- or sports, which is a very viable topic.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to explore the "career" angle of college, you might look at the way that the rising price of college has made more students career focused, with all sorts of repercussions -- including the decline in humanities enrollments. Talk about the way that this rising tide of careerism is changing the face of college in many ways.
Meanwhile, I would suggest you not give up on sports....
I wrote the following message to Troy from our class, who is pursuing that topic:
College sports is a great topic area, full of controversy and lots of research to draw upon. I think everyone who has taken on this topic in the past has done very well. You might want to read "Spoilsport" by William Dowling, which chronicles quite a bit of the Rutgers football story from a very critical perspective:
http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Spoilsport-Fighting-Corruption-University/dp/0271032936
The library should have it, if it has not been destroyed or stolen....
I have had a number of students write on the sports topic, from a number of perspectives, in past terms. It is a perennial, and worth exploring. I can point you to some useful blogs of students past:
http://jerrydijoseph.blogspot.com/
This was on the idea of paying athletes -- which has gotten attention since they began to organize. There is an incredible documentary on this topic that you should see if you pursue this topic -- available from Netflix and likely elsewhere:
Schooled: The Price of College Sports
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3057718/
http://athleteadvantagecollege201.blogspot.com/
http://clancy201college.blogspot.com
http://briangrohgans201college.blogspot.com/
You are welcome to get resources from their bibliographies.
There was a recent and very optimistic assessment of how much money Rutgers and Maryland would get from the Big 10 based on the experience of Nebraska and that is worth looking at:
http://omaha.com/article/20140209/NEWS/140208719