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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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Choosing Sport Management as a College Major
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Schwab, Keri A.; Dustin, Daniel; Legg, Eric; Timmerman, Danielle; Wells, Mary Sara; Arthur-Banning, Skye G. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to better understand sport management students within departments of parks, recreation, and tourism, and to address the often uneasy fit faculty experience when trying to educate sport and recreation students in the same classes. Researchers sent a 16-item online questionnaire to 1,337 undergraduate sport management…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Questionnaires
Consider the Kirtland's Warbler
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Dustin, Daniel L.; Schwab, Keri A. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2008
This paper challenges the conventional wisdom of departments of parks and recreation taking sport management under their "wing." Based on a review of the sport management literature and a polling of sport management and park and recreation educators, we argue that departments of parks and recreation are but temporary refuges for migratory sport…
Descriptors: Athletics, College Faculty, Recreation, Intellectual Disciplines