JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION THEORY AND PRACTICE
Educational Performance and Athletic Success:
An Economist View of Scholarship Distribution in College Football
Author(s): Donald I. Price, Kabir C. Sen
Citation: Donald I. Price, Kabir C. Sen, (2020) "Educational Performance and Athletic Success: An Economist View of Scholarship Distribution in College Football," Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, Vol. 20, ss. 15, pp. 21-26
Article Type: Research paper
Publisher: North American Business Press
Abstract:
Our paper proposes the use of NCAA Graduation Success Rates (GSR) and Academic Progress Reports (APR) to partially reallocate athletic scholarships among NCAA college football teams. Specifically, it would reward academically high performing institutions with additional scholarships and penalize poorly performing institutions with lost scholarships. Scholarships would be transferrable in a market through which those who lose scholarships are able to purchase scholarships from those who were awarded additional ones. The proposal is illustrated using cluster analysis of data for cohort years between 2004 and 2011.