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Journalist Seth Shulman said he was approached by the UCS last year to conduct the investigation. He said he drew his conclusions from already-published press reports and interviews with current or recently resigned administration officials in mid-to-high ranking positions, many of whom spoke only on the condition of anonymity...
...book is a follow-up to The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values, which Bowen wrote with James L. Shulman...
William Bowen, now president of the Mellon Foundation, first criticized athletic admissions in the Ivy League three years ago when he published The Game of Life, co-written by Mellon colleague James Shulman. The book argues that college sports were too intense, detracting too much from students’ academic obligations. Fitzsimmons says Ivy League administrators and admissions officers took an immediate interest in the issues the book raised, and initiated negotiations to elevate academic standards for athletes. “We have been very vigorously asserting that we raise the expectations of academic excellence,” McGrath Lewis...
Lewis says the move to reduce recruits is part of a larger trend to decrease intensity in college athletics, which stems from James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen’s 2001 book The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values...
...Shulman and Bowen argue that athletes have a significant admissions advantage and that Ivy League sports are becoming increasingly professionalized—although Harvard is not included in the study...