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It's naive to think college athletes have time for school

  • Written by Jasmine Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ursinus College
The demands of college sports often take precedence over education.Don Feria/AP

From my first day as a sociology professor at a university with a Division I football and men’s basketball team, education and athletics struck me as being inherently at odds.

Student-athletes filled my courses to take advantage of the fact that the classes met ear...

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