Download or read book Faculty Attitudes Toward NCAA Division III Athletic Programs written by Jeffrey Stanton Noble and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to examine attitudes of college faculty at NCAA Division III institutions toward issues related to their school's intercollegiate athletic program. The survey instrument contained fifty statements regarding intercollegiate athletics at the respondent's institution, and eight questions which requested specific demographic information. The population sample used for this study were faculty employed at NCAA Division III institutions whose athletic programs ranked in the top three and bottom seven placings of the final 2003 National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Director's Cup standings. Results indicated no significant differences when attitudes of faculty at successful and unsuccessful schools were compared toward the role of athletics at the university and issues pertaining to leadership in athletics. However, faculty members from schools with successful athletic programs displayed more favorable attitudes toward their athletic programs than faculty members from institutions with unsuccessful programs regarding their perception of the image of athletics in higher education. Faculty from physical education/kinesiology showed more favorable attitudes toward their athletic programs than faculty from other departments concerning the role of athletics at the university and perception of the image of athletics. Differences in attitudes were also evident between male and female faculty members regarding their perception of athletics, as males representing schools with successful athletic programs were inclined to possess less favorable attitudes than males representing schools with unsuccessful programs. In contrast, female faculty members from successful schools showed more favorable attitudes than their female counterparts from schools with unsuccessful athletic programs. Faculty members from schools with successful programs with less than 20 years of experience teaching in higher education showed more favorable attitudes than their counterparts from unsuccessful athletic program schools in the same years of experience group. Teaching experience at NCAA Division III schools and faculty members with previous ties to intercollegiate athletics showed significant differences between successful and unsuccessful program faculty regarding the perception of the image of athletics in higher education. In both, faculty from schools with successful athletic programs displayed attitudes that were less favorable than faculty from schools with unsuccessful athletic programs.