In the 1950s, NCAA Executive Director Walter Byers coined the term ‘student-athlete,’ which laid the groundwork for the organization to reap the windfall from its annual basketball tournament.
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As Earth’s climate warms, mangroves are expanding north and south from tropical zones. Mangroves reinforce shorelines and store huge quantities of carbon, so protecting them is an effective climate strategy.
Roughly 700,000 students ages 13 to 17 have experienced homelessness in the last year. An education researcher says the obstacles that these students face can threaten their college dreams.
If we think about universities as corporations and their sports teams as marketing tools, everything about the UNC academic scandal – and the nonresponse – makes perfect sense.
Human resources professionals should be trained at school and encouraged on the job to take employee complaints seriously. But that’s not how the profession works now.
In a system that’s far better at identifying the best payers than finding the best players, the pipeline of talent gets choked out by costly tournament and team fees.
To succumb to conspiracy is to be human.
Women experience negative effects from the objectification that’s common in our society. What happens if they try to seize the reins and elicit sexualized attention in their romantic relationships?
Ethical scandals at Uber and Fox have focused attention on the leaders of the organizations, but the problems of a toxic culture often embed deep within an organization.
The nation needs a more comprehensive approach to family leave and relief for parents with child care expenses. But the proposals the Trump team rolled out initially fell short.
What Pope Francis did in his surprise TED talk was to relate the social message of Catholicism to people’s real lives.
In the wake of the atomic bombs, a number of Japanese animators would question mankind’s relationship with technology.
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Villanova University
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Assistant Professor of Special Education, Villanova University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Resource Development, Villanova University
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Instructor in Communication, Villanova University
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Master's Student in Psychology, Villanova University
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Professor of Education, Villanova University
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Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Villanova University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Villanova University
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Associate Professor of Management, Villanova University
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John F. Connelly Chair in Management at the Villanova School of Business, Villanova University
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Associate Professor of History, Villanova University
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Professor of Sociology, Villanova University
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Associate Professor of Biology, Villanova University
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Associate Professor of Education and Counseling, Villanova University
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Associate Professor of Accountancy & Information Systems, Villanova University
