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...book, Bowen and Shulman question whether the pursuit of high-profile athletic programs has diverted many colleges from their academic missions...
Shulman and Bowen also seek to dispel the “myth” that alumni giving depends on athletic success. According to The Game of Life, survey data show that alumni would rather their contributions go to initiatives such as undergraduate education or residential life than athletics...
Though the book includes data from Yale, Princeton and Columbia, some at Harvard aren’t convinced that Bowen and Shulman’s findings apply to the Ivy League—or to Harvard...
...Bowen-Shulman book has stimulated a national discussion in which the Ivy League is certainly involved,” Lewis says. “[But] it’s a little confusing to take some of the major conclusions from the subject of the book to apply them to the Ivy League. We are in many cases different despite their attempts to fold us into their conclusions...
Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 says that while Bowen and Shulman do sample some Ivies, their results don’t apply to Harvard, where she says athletes—due to the randomized housing system and other factors—do not self-segregate as much they do at other schools...