Diverging revenues, cascading expenditures, and ensuing subsidies: The unbalanced and growing financial strain of intercollegiate athletics on universities and their students

Journal of Higher Education

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 417-447

  Cheslock, John J ^a   Knight, David B ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics of higher education; Intercollegiate athletics; Organizational theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928948160     PISSN: 00221546     EISSN: 15384640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jhe.2015.0017     Document Type: Article

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