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Putting the Student back in Student-Athlete? Managing Tensions in a College Sports Environment

Chauveau, Philippe
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1563273715001516

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2019, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Communication.
This project explores the realm of college sports through a tensional perspective. Specifically, this paper analyzes the paradoxical tensions present within the term student-athlete in men’s Division I college basketball. As an FBI probe closed in on corruption in prestigious NCAA institutions, the Commission on College Basketball (CCB) was formed to assess the state of men’s Division I college basketball. The CCB created a 53-page report detailing the issues with college basketball and recommendations on how to resolve them. Through a grounded iterative method and the framework provided by Putnam, Fairhurst, & Banghart (2016) on paradoxical tensions in organizations, this study examines the paradoxical tensions related to the term student-athlete in the CCB Report. This paper finds a central tension of incentive-disincentive, and three sub-tensions: academics-athletics, tradition-status quo, and sufficient compensation-insufficient compensation. This study then describes the implications, theoretical and practical, derived from the paradoxical tensions and management strategies found.
Gail Fairhurst, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Stephen Depoe, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Nancy Jennings, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
78 p.
Communication
NCAA; College basketball; paradoxical tensions; incentive; academics; athletics

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  • Chauveau, P. (2019). Putting the Student back in Student-Athlete? Managing Tensions in a College Sports Environment [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1563273715001516

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Chauveau, Philippe. Putting the Student back in Student-Athlete? Managing Tensions in a College Sports Environment. 2019. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1563273715001516.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Chauveau, Philippe. "Putting the Student back in Student-Athlete? Managing Tensions in a College Sports Environment." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1563273715001516

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