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ERIC Number: EJ588044
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-5982
Postseason Play Creates Tensions for an Unusual Athletics Conference.
Suggs, Welch
Chronicle of Higher Education, v45 n41 pA45-A46 Jun 18 1999
A group of selective liberal arts colleges will bar many of their athletic teams from postseason championships as of academic year 2001-02, following an eight-year experiment to see if postseason competition would fit into the colleges' missions. Factors in the decision include students missing examinations and increased tension with faculty over championship participation. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Athletics, Competition, Consortia, Higher Education, Institutional Mission, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Liberal Arts, School Policy, Selective Colleges
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Amherst College MA; Bates College ME; Bowdoin College ME; Connecticut College; Hamilton College NY; Middlebury College VT; Trinity College CT; Tufts University MA; Wesleyan University CT; Williams College MA