Elena's Research Ideas

  Images explain the overall performance of African Americans vs white people in schools based on engaged vs disengaged an easy vs hard. Related to the stereotype effect. (Stone, Harrison, Mottley) Depicts how much coaches are being paid vs how much the total amount of scholarships given (Beamon)

‘‘Don’t Call Me a Student-Athlete’’: The Effect of Identity Priming on Stereotype Threat for Academically Engaged African American College Athletes Stone, Jeff, et al. “‘Don’t Call Me a Student-Athlete’: The Effect of Identity Priming on Stereotype Threat for Academically Engaged African American College Athletes.”  Basic & Applied Social Psychology , vol. 34, no. 2, Apr. 2012, pp. 99–106.  EBSCOhost , doi:10.1080/01973533.2012.655624.   Summary+ Key Term- The key term in this paper that relates to the summary is the idea of the stereotype effect. Stereotype effect discusses how a negative image of a group of people will negatively impact their performance. There are two ways that this affects minority group student-athletes in that both terms have negative stereotypes when it comes to education. Athletes, to begin with, have a very common "dumb jock" stereotype, as people commonly comment on how they were only accepted into a school for their sheer athletic ab...

"Used Goods": Former African American College Student-Athletes' Perception of Exploitation by Division I Universities by Krystal K. Beamon Summary: Beamon focuses on the stigma and stereotypes of athletics in African American communities. She discusses the negative effects of its overemphasis, causing children to grow up with unrealistic career dreams and less of a drive for education. With this, it can be seen that a large gap between graduation rates of African American vs White student-athletes, due to academic unpreparedness for the rigor of university. Even if they do graduate, Black students rarely even get the benefits of their college degree, in that they typically graduate with majors in "less competitive 'jock courses' of dubious educational value and occupational relevance... Colleges exploit the talent of Black athletes and deny these same athletes access to a quality education as well as limiting employment opportunities of Black athletes a...

Elena Shalom  Professor Goeller Research in the Disciplines: College! 11 March 2020 Research Proposal Working Title Is the Exploitation of College Athletes Justified? Is Surplus Value Relevant to “Student-Athletes”? Student-Athlete or Athletic Student? Topic Description College athletes, especially those of minority groups, have reported all over the country that they feel exploited for their athletic ability, more so than their white teammates. The common opposing argument to this claim is that sports can provide educational opportunities to underprivileged minorities that they may not have otherwise been given. With this, comes the topic of proper reimbursement, or “surplus value,” in that the athletes with outstanding performance who increase the revenue of the school’s athletic department are said to not be fairly compensated for their hard work. Some compare this to slavery or free labor, in that that the NCAA is a billion-dollar corporation...

Branch, Story by Taylor. “The Shame of College Sports.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 30 Aug. 2019, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/308643/ . Key terms defined- student-athlete is the only term used in this article that I will use in my final paper This article deals with the term student-athlete and all the implications that come with the term "student -athlete." Being that the NCAA adds the word "student" before "athlete" it saves them millions of dollars in compensation, especially when it comes to injuries. The term student-athlete was deliberately ambiguous. College players were not students at play (which might understate their athletic obligations), nor were they just athletes in college (which might imply they were professionals). That they were high-performance athletes meant they could be forgiven for not meeting the academic standards of their peers; that they were students meant they did n...