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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Academic Moneyball
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Dustin, Dan; Murphy, James; McDonald, Cary; Wright, Brett; Harper, Jack; Lamke, Gene – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2014
We apply lessons from "Moneyball," Michael Lewis's (2003) best-selling account of the Oakland Athletics's use of "sabermetrics" to find undervalued baseball players to help build a cost-effective team to the context of recreation, park, and leisure studies. Specifically, we coin and apply the term…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Cost Effectiveness, Recreation, Parks
The Right Administrative Stuff
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Dustin, Dan; McDonald, Cary; Harper, Jack; Lamke, Gene; Murphy, James – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2014
This article is intended to provoke thought and discussion about what it takes to be a department chair and what it feels like to be a department chair. To accomplish our purpose, we draw an analogy between test pilots and department chairs based on Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" (1979). We reason that test pilots and department…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Department Heads, College Administration, Novels