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sued the NCAA, Electronic Arts and the Collegiate Licensing Company over the use of his name and image. Lawyers for O’Bannon reached a $40 million settlement with EA and the Collegiate Licensing Comp0any, which handles licensing rates for many universities. However, the case against the NCAA is still working its way through the courts. O’Bannon claimed that the lawsuit was never about the money, it was about righting a wrong. “If a company or someone was to use your likeness then you should be…

Higher education is a necessity in life. Without it, the hope to find a job to sustain oneself and possibly a family is extremely difficult. In “My Valuable, Cheap College Degree” author Arthur C. Brooks explains his views about college. He begins by noting the statistics of inflating tuition costs; a widely talked about subject that has attracted many entrepreneurs desiring to solve the problem. Following a challenge by Bill Gates, the $10,000 college degree –or 10-K B.A.– is being instituted…

College athletics have always been an essential part of American culture, and they have gradually developed into a multimillion dollar industry over the past century. Big time college sports have not only made schools popular, but have also made them wealthy. Schools are making million dollar deals with private corporations through advertisement, merchandise, and broadcasting rights. However, debates erupted when people started to wonder where do college athletes, the backbone of the athletic…

are not the only ones who score. The sponsors of the teams as well as the broadcasters win through their business success and the amount of revenue they generate (Debate Club). Richard Burton, Professor of Sports Management at Syracuse University, explains the universities of successful sports teams make millions from selling team products and especially tickets to the games. For football and basketball coaches, the average salary exceeds well over $1 million per year. According to Forbes, “In…

Campus Life A student’s senior year of high school seems to be the busiest ever. Senior year comes with the task of filling out hundreds of scholarship applications, applying to any and every college, while still keeping up the attendance and grades in classes. When a student finally gets accepted to the school they want to go to, it seems that there is just even more to do. When it comes to housing at college, there are many different choices. For me, living off campus wasn’t even…

barrier to completion.” The things they talk about these article is very true on that they talk about, because if community college would become free then anyone would want to go just to save money for two years then to later going on to transfer to a university or a four year college. If this would get to happen then they should also take in note that the federal government should put out a rule that they are going to be equal with low, middle, and high class people. That they are not only…

While college acts as the prepping stone into the working world, a student’s college major is the pathway towards their specific career goals and future opportunities. Typically, Biology majors want to go into the medical field; Political Science majors aspire to be lawyers, while Business and Economics majors dream of becoming successful in the corporate world. Analyzing trends in college major choice is a key factor to understanding the foundation of inequality within the workforce. The study…

In a discussion about the paradigms of public education, Ken Burns addresses the controversial topic of cultural education. Public education is experiencing a time of confusion in helping children develop cultural identity so the new generation can continue to play an important role in globalization. This confusion causes an immediate reaction: continue to do what has been done in the past--instruct children to work hard, do well, and earn a college degree, then they will get a job. Many…

observed many children who have dropped out of college because they were not ready for the freedom of being on their own. I remember my next door neighbor only let her son attend a local community college. The other children attended colleges and universities far away from home, but he went to school nearby. The reason behind that is because his mom wanted to make sure her child was prepared for college mentally. She didn’t want her son to drop out because of parties, and not keeping up…

According to E. Allen and J. Seaman (2013) in 2013, 32 percent of college/university students were participating in one or more online courses. In an article “Revolution hits the universities” by T. Friedman (2013), he explains how MOOCs will revolutionize the method of education in the next few years. This will create an easy access/low cost method of delivering education to students around the world. With some of the best universities already offering courses thru this platform, soon we…