Cheated: The UNC Scandal, the Education of Athletes, and the Future of Big-Time College Sports

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Jay M. Smith Mary Willingham

Cheated

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The UNC Scandal, the Education of Athletes, and the Future of Big-Time College Sports

Jay M. Smith, Mary Willingham

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Potomac Books Inc
15 March 2015

Higher & further education, tertiary education; Sport & leisure industries; Sports teams & clubs

In 2010 allegations of an utterly corrupt academic system for student-athletes emerged from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus, home of the legendary Tar Heels. As the alma mater of Michael Jordan, Larry Brown, Marion Jones, Lawrence Taylor, Rashad McCants, and many others; winner of forty national championships in six different sports; and a partner in one of the best rivalries in sports, UNC–Chapel Hill is a world-famous colossus of college athletics. In the wake of the Wainstein report, however, the fallout from this scandal-and the continuing spotlight on the failings of college athletics-has made the school ground zero in the debate about how the $16 billion college sports industry operates.

Written by UNC professor of history Jay Smith and UNC athletics department whistleblower Mary Willingham, Cheated exposes the fraudulent inner workings of this famous university. For decades these internal systems have allowed woefully underprepared basketball and football players to take fake courses and earn devalued degrees from one of the nation’s top universities while faculty and administrators looked the other way. In unbiased and carefully sourced detail, Cheated recounts the academic fraud in UNC’s athletics department, even as university leaders focused on minimizing the damage in order to keep the billion-dollar college sports revenue machine functioning. Smith and Willingham make an impassioned argument that the “student-athletes” in these programs are being cheated out of what, after all, is promised them in the first place: a college education.

By: Jay M. Smith, Mary Willingham
Imprint: Potomac Books Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9781612347288
ISBN 10: 1612347282
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 15 March 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jay M. Smith is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has served in a variety of administrative capacities involving the management of undergraduate education. Mary Willingham worked in the Center for Student Success and Academic Counseling at UNC–Chapel Hill until 2014. Both she (in 2013) and Smith (in 2014) received the Robert Maynard Hutchins Award from the Drake Group for integrity in the face of college sports corruption. Willingham now works as a middle school reading teacher for Kipp Public Charter Schools in Chicago.

Reviews for Cheated: The UNC Scandal, the Education of Athletes, and the Future of Big-Time College Sports

This should be required reading for everyone. --A. R./I>--A. R. Sanderson CHOICE [Cheated] offers a stinging critique of UNC-Chapel Hill's handling of the academic and athletic wrongdoing that kept student athletes eligible to compete and persisted for nearly two decades. --Jane Stancill, News & Observer--Jane Stancill News & Observer (01/15/2015) This excellent book is a canary in the coalmine for those who love athletics at the collegiate level. --Jorge Iber, Sport in American History--Jorge Iber Sport in American History All readers interested in education, public affairs, and college athletics will find this book essential. --John Maxymuk, Library Journal--John Maxymuk Library Journal (03/01/2015) Those who care about the soul--and economics--of the $16 billion-a-year college sports industry should clear their reading calendar for Cheated. --Paul Barrett, Bloomberg Business--Paul Barrett Bloomberg Business (02/19/2015) Cheated sounds an important call for reform. --Gregg Easterbrook, Wall Street Journal--Gregg Easterbrook Wall Street Journal (02/27/2015)