Deck 10: Reform Efforts and Ethical Concerns

Question 1

On whom did Dr. Howard Savage, author of the Carnegie Report of 1929, fix the blame for much of the problems occurring in college athletics at the time?

A) College coaches
B) College athletic directors
C) College presidents
D) The NCAA

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The Graham Plan, which was adopted in 1936 and abandoned two years later, called for which of the following?

A) The identification of intercollegiate athletics as noneducational, which meant, therefore, that student-athletes should be paid for their participation.
B) The adoption of academic legislation called the "Sanity Code," which required student-athletes to have a certain GPA to be eligible to compete.
C) An end to athletic scholarships, meaning that financial aid should be awarded by a faculty committee.
D) The recommendation that, since coaches were out of hand, their contracts and endorsement deals needed to be approved by the president of the institution.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The Knight Commission was formed in 1989 primarily in response to which of the following?

A) The confusion regarding how to comply with Title IX, which regained its enforcement muscle with passage of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987.
B) The lack of sufficient compliance rules, which compromised the amateurism of intercollegiate athletics.
C) The out-of-control behavior of coaches in terms of their endorsement activities and behavior on and off the court/field.
D) College presidential concerns that the academic integrity of higher education was being threatened by abuses in intercollegiate athletics.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT an argument in favor of the activist approach to social responsibility of organizations?

A) Organizations are members of society and have responsibilities to other stakeholders, such as employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, creditors, the government, unions, special interest groups, and the general public.
B) Organizations have the technical, financial, and managerial resources to help solve social problems.
C) Organizations lack expertise to manage social problems.
D) Government intervention is less likely when businesses take the initiative in addressing social problems.

Question 5

Which of the following two Democratic U.S. Senators, along with eight Democratic colleagues, unveiled what they called the "college athletes' bill of rights," which sought to give athletes greater opportunity to receive compensation, better health and safety benefits and more leeway to transfer schools without penalty?

A) Cory Booker and Rand Paul
B) Cory Booker and Kamala Harris
C) Lindsey Graham and Kamala Harris
D) Jim Jordan and Tim Murphy

Question 6

In 2017, Amherst College chose _______________ to replace its' unofficial "Lord Jeffs" mascot.

A) Fighting Poets
B) Hamsters
C) Jumbos
D) Mammoths

Question 7

Current NCAA transgender inclusion guidelines recommend each of the following EXCEPT:

A) A trans female (male to female) transgender student-athlete who is not taking hormone treatments related to gender transition may not compete on a women's team
B) A trans male (female to male) student-athlete who is not taking testosterone related to gender transition may participate on a men's or women's team.
C) Any transgender student-athlete who is not taking hormone treatment related to gender transition may participate in sex-separated sports activities in accordance with his or her assigned birth gender.
D) Transgender athletes are required to use separate locker rooms.

Question 8

Rice (1994) cited several general guidelines for managing diversity for schools and departments, including each of the following EXCEPT:

A) Adopting a plan for addressing the concerns of majority groups.
B) Allowing individuals and organizations to opt out diversity programs.
C) Obtaining the commitment of the school president and athletic director, setting specific diversity goals.
D) Providing training in valuing diversity.

Question 9

The classical economic approach to social responsibility suggests each of the following EXCEPT:

A) An organization should limit its involvement to activities that improve its own performance.
B) Intercollegiate athletics departments should not be thought of as organizations.
C) Requiring management to pursue socially responsible activities could be unethical, because the managers would be expending resources that belong to other stakeholders.
D) The first and foremost responsibility of management is to generate resources and revenues for owners or stockholders.

Question 10

Which of the following is the mission of the Drake Group?

A) To confine the scope of intercollegiate athletics so that all programs mirror the academic vision of host institutions.
B) To create an environment of academic integration, faculty involvement and fiscal responsibility.
C) To defend academic integrity in higher education from the corrosive aspects of commercialized college sports.
D) To promote and secure the role of faculty to oversee all aspects of intercollegiate athletics management.

Question 11

The Carnegie Report of 1929 recommended that, in order to "fix" the problems that were taking place in intercollege athletics at the time, the control of intercollegiate athletics should be returned to the students.

Question 12

The first report of the Knight Commission, called Keeping Faith with the Student-Athlete, reported that student-athletes were the key to reform in intercollegiate athletics.

Question 13

Arguments for the activist approach toward social responsibility of organizations include that it is management's responsibility to earn profits for owners, that potential conflicts of interest occur when managers must meet profit goals and simultaneously enhance social welfare, and that businesses lack the expertise to manage social problems.

Question 14

Ethical intercollegiate athletics organizations encourage people at all levels to exercise ethical judgment. We expect these organizations to conduct themselves honestly and fairly in terms of how they treat their stakeholders, but the complexity of competing interests in sport makes ethical dilemmas difficult to resolve.

Question 15

As of 2021, about 50 of the NCAA's 20,000 women's sport participants were transgender.

Question 16

Outline the elements of the 1929 Carnegie Report and the 1991 Knight Commission report, and explain the similarities and differences in each in terms of suggested reforms for intercollegiate athletics.

Question 17

Identify the actions taken by the NCAA taken in response to concerns regarding various school nicknames and mascots, and explain the impact of these actions on specific member institutions.

Question 18

Explain the two view of social responsibility, then using the example from an ethical issue outlined in the chapter, outline which of the two views you would advise athletic department managers to implement in dealing with issue.

Question 19

Provide an overview of the managerial challenges connected to athletes changing gender and the resulting impact on competitive equity, outline current NCAA transgender inclusion recommendations, and explain whether these recommendations have addressed the challenges sufficiently.