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DECISIONS UNDER INFLUENCE: COLLEGE PRESIDENTS’
ATHLETICS-RELATED DECISION-MAKING BEHAVIOR AT
NCAA DIVISION I FOOTBALL BOWL SUBDIVISION INSTITUTIONS
by
Patrick Evan Auerbach
____________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
May 2008
Copyright 2008 Patrick Evan Auerbach
Object Description
| Title | Decisions under influence: college presidents' athletics-related decision-making behavior at NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision institutions |
| Author | Auerbach, Patrick Evan |
| Author email | pauerbac@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-02-04 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-02-22 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Hentschke, Guilbert C. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Brewer, Dominic J. Diamond, Michael |
| Abstract | This dissertation explores the decision-making behavior of college presidents and chancellors at six prominent public institutions in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and analyzes how a variety of factors and constituencies influence this complex process. Intercollegiate athletics programs in this elite NCAA subdivision have proven to be significantly lucrative, prohibitively expensive, and at times highly (and perhaps unrealistically) competitive and risky to their respective institutions. As institutions of higher education, especially large public research universities which sponsor high-profile athletics programs, confront dwindling government financial support, increasing administrative costs and widespread scrutiny of decreasing affordability among the college-going population, college presidents and chancellors at a subset of 66 institutions, referred to as football schools in this study, continue to engage their intercollegiate athletics programs in an arms race, which includes multimillion dollar investments in coaches salaries, facility upgrades, and administrative overhead to support and protect this enterprise.; Based upon a nationally representative, six-campus on-site research protocol and design involving 37 senior-level university administrators and officers, this mixed-methods study reveals six common themes relating to influential factors and constituencies, and how these interplay and affect leadership decision-making behavior at six prominent universities representing each power conference among the 66 football schools. Four other patterns not common to all six institutions, nonetheless including influential factors and constituencies, are also discovered, and it is suggested that these may correlate to some degree with a campus's conference affiliation, athletics-to-academics expenditure ratio, flagship status, location, or none of the above.; Ultimately, campus executives value their respective institution's athletics programs, primarily the high-profile sport of football, and to a lesser degree basketball plus other sports of regional popularity or local interest, as institutional assets which help the campus not only satisfy its core educational mission, but also enhance the overall quality of the institution and buttress its ability to achieve prestige and greatness. As such, based on this study, the flow of support, at least among a select group of institutions, is arguably reversed: athletics supports the core mission of the institutions -- more than the other way around -- and college presidents tend to behave accordingly. |
| Keyword | college; presidents; athletics; finance; administration |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1027 |
| Rights | Auerbach, Patrick Evan |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Auerbach-20080222 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-Auerbach-20080222.pdf |
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| Full text | DECISIONS UNDER INFLUENCE: COLLEGE PRESIDENTS’ ATHLETICS-RELATED DECISION-MAKING BEHAVIOR AT NCAA DIVISION I FOOTBALL BOWL SUBDIVISION INSTITUTIONS by Patrick Evan Auerbach ____________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 2008 Copyright 2008 Patrick Evan Auerbach |
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