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Jun 12
Where does society actually develop communication, teamwork, and leadership most effectively?
@MichaelBHorn makes the case on Future U that the answer might be athletics, and wonders whether it could finally give us a way to rigorously measure durable skills.
Full conversation with @JSelingo.
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Jun 12
"If you want to hire someone, hire an athlete."
Jim Kim, former World Bank head and Dartmouth president, used to say it. @MichaelBHorn wonders on Future U whether we could finally build the measurement infrastructure to prove it.
Full conversation with @JSelingo.
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Jun 10
For most colleges, the current college athletics model is unsustainable for their academic enterprise.
Karen Weaver says many of them would welcome the chance to get off the treadmill if the top programs broke away.
Full conversation on Future U with @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn.
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Jun 10
Karen Weaver's proposal for college athletics: let the top tier break away entirely.
Collective bargaining. Employment status. Whether athletes even need to be full-time students.
Those conversations can't happen honestly within the current structure. Full discussion on Future U with @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn.
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Jun 10
The media contracts aren't coming for most college athletics programs. The networks want the top 18 to 30, full stop.
Karen Weaver on Future U: so how do you build exposure on your own terms?
Full conversation with @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn.
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The local paper used to be all a college athletics program needed for coverage.
Gen Z doesn't read the local paper.
Karen Weaver on what smaller programs need to do instead on Future U with @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn.
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The Saturday night primetime game. The postseason playoff push. The conference realignment.
Karen Weaver says all of it is driven by what media companies want, not what colleges decided they valued.
What should colleges want instead? That conversation on Future U with @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn.
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Media companies are picking the winners and losers in college sports. And Karen Weaver says higher ed has handed them that power.
"We need to take back our definition of what a winner and loser is."
Full conversation on Future U with @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn.
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When Syracuse informally polled faculty about leaving Division I, some said they feared losing their research status.
Karen Weaver says she is still trying to understand what one has to do with the other.
On the psychology of D-I identity on Future U with @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn.
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For a lot of colleges, Division I status isn't really about athletics. It is about identity.
And that, Karen Weaver says, is exactly what makes honest conversations about contraction so hard to have.
Full conversation on Future U with @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn.
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College athletes today compete in 33 to 35% more games than they did 30 years ago.
Nobody decided that was the right amount. It just kept growing.
Karen Weaver on what that has cost athletes on Future U with @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn.
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Men's basketball used to be a fall and spring sport. Now it is essentially year-round.
Karen Weaver says higher ed has never seriously asked how much competition is too much, and that the toll on athletes is real.
Full conversation on Future U with @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn.
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There are two very different conversations happening in college athletics right now.
One is about media rights and revenue, driven by the Big Ten, SEC, and a handful of other programs that have become valued media properties.
Everyone else, Karen Weaver says on Future U, needs to revert to mission.
Full conversation with @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn.
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Most colleges are never going to compete with the Big Ten or SEC for athletics revenue.
So what should they do instead? Karen Weaver has a clear answer on Future U with @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn.
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Division I athletics departments now have their own CFOs. Their own academic affairs staff. Their own student affairs infrastructure.
Karen Weaver joins @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn on Future U to explain what that means for college governance and who is actually watching the finances.
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Last year, financial officers across the Eastern U.S. held their regional conference and dedicated an entire track just to college athletics.
Karen Weaver says that moment captures exactly what the problem is. Athletics departments at many D-I schools have become full shadow universities.
Full conversation with @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn on Future U.
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The college athletics arms race has turned many athletics departments into shadow universities, with their own systems, processes, and finances running parallel to the rest of campus.
Karen Weaver joins @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn on Future U to talk about what leaders are missing and whether a whole new board structure for sports is needed.
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Athletics departments at many D-I institutions have become shadow universities, with their own CFOs, their own student affairs structures, and their own financial logic.
Karen Weaver joins @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn on Future U to dig into what college leaders are missing and what needs to change.
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May 29
Most coverage of college closures stops at the announcement. Doug Moore's job starts there. He walks @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn through what the process actually looks like — and what's still at stake long after the doors close — on Future U.
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May 28
Closing a college doesn't end the responsibility to the surrounding community. Someone still has to secure an abandoned campus — and figure out what happens to everything left behind. Doug Moore has done it more than almost anyone. Full conversation with @JSelingo and @MichaelBHorn on Future U.
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