Type of Document Dissertation Author Fulford, Michael John Author's Email Address mikefulford@comcast.net URN etd-11262008-112922 Title Failing at College Football Reform: The Jan Kemp Trial at the University of Georgia Degree Ph.D. Department Educational Policy Studies Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Dr. Philo Hutcheson Committee Chair Dr. Jodi Kaufmann Committee Member Dr. Merrily Dunn Committee Member Dr. Mike Metzler Committee Member Keywords
- Jan Kemp
- college football
- academic integrity
- University of Georgia
- Fred Davison
- Leroy Ervin
- Virginia Trotter
- Developmental Studies
- athletes
- athletics
- commercialization
- presidential control
- education reform
Date of Defense 2008-09-25 Availability unrestricted Abstract Throughout the history of college football, there have been efforts to reform the system and stop improprieties, yet conflict between gaining academic and athletic prowess at colleges remained a central theme. In the 1980s, the Jan Kemp trial involving the University of Georgia demonstrated this clash between revenue-generating athletics and academic integrity. This historical study is an in-depth analysis of archives, legal documents, interviews, and other textual evidence that demonstrated how the factors surrounding the Jan Kemp case evolved and how key administrators and faculty members reacted to pressure related to academic and athletic conflicts. An analysis of past reform efforts in college football identified presidential control, commercialization of athletics, and corruption of the student-athlete ideal through preferential treatment as the key issues universities must address in relation to their football programs. An analysis of the University of Georgia in relation to these issues showed that pressure to increase revenue from football led to a lack of presidential control over academic-athletic conflicts and allowed preferential treatment of athletes to persist at the expense of academic integrity.Files
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