Background
Thelin, John Robert was born on October 15, 1947 in West Newton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Willard and Rozalija Katherine (Komarec) Thelin.
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Featuring a new introduction by the author, the paperback edition of Games Colleges Play chronicles the history of intercollegiate athletics from 1910 to 1990―from the early, glory days of Knute Rockne and the Gipper to the modern era of big budgets, powerful coaches, and pampered players. John Thelin describes how sports programs―although seldom accorded official mention with teaching and research in the university mission statement―have become central to university life. As administrators search for a proper balance between athletics and academics, Thelin observes, this peculiar institution grows increasingly powerful and controversial. Thelin examines the 1929 Carnegie Foundation Report, the formation of major athletic conferences, the national college basketball scandals after World War II, the dissolution of the Pacific Coast Conference in the 1950s, and the Knight Foundation Report of 1991. He finds disturbing patterns of abuse and limited reform and explores the implications of these patterns for today's college presidents, faculty, and students. Games Colleges Play provides historical background that will inform current policy discussions about the proper place of intercollegiate athletics within the American university.
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academic administrator historian education educator
Thelin, John Robert was born on October 15, 1947 in West Newton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Willard and Rozalija Katherine (Komarec) Thelin.
AB, Brown U., 1969; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1972; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1973.
Research assistant, Brown U., Providence, 1968-1969;
researcher, lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 1972-1974;
assistant professor, U. Kentucky, Lexington, 1974-1977;
assistant dean, Pomona College, Claremont, California, 1977-1979;
from assistant director to research director, Association Indiana California Colleges Universities, Santa Ana, 1979-1981;
chancellor professor, College William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1981-1993;
president faculty assembly, College William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1990-1991;
professor higher education & philanthropy, Indiana U., Bloomington, 1993-1996;
professor educational policy and history, U. Kentucky, Lexington, since 1996. Visiting professor graduate school Claremont U., 1978-1981. Visiting scholar University of California, Berkeley, 1995.
Curator Marquandia Society, 1971-1996. Essay review editor Review of Higher Education, 1979-1991. Research consultant National Science Foundation, Washington, 1991.
Member of faculty senate U. Kentucky, since 1997. Guest faculty College Business Management Institute, summer 1998, 99.
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President, board directors United Way, Williamsburg, 1987-1989. President Friends of Williamsburg Library., 1989. Member Association for Study of Higher Education (board directors 1988-1990, keynote Speaker.1994, president 1999-2000), History of Education Society (editorial board 1988-1991), Phi Beta Kappa (Faculty award for advancement of scholarship Alpha of Virginia 1986).
Married Anna SharonBlackburn, June 24, 1978.
