Fleshing Out The Uniqueness of Student-Athlete Writing Centers: A Response to Alanna Bitzel
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2012
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Rifenburg, J. Michael
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I eagerly read Alanna Bitzel’s recent column in Praxis titled “Supporting Student-Athletes.” For many reasons I am still puzzling through, writing center studies, even academia writ large, often avoid discussing the multi-million dollar stadiums and operating budgets of the high-profile athletic programs sharing our campuses. And when academia does turn its eye toward athletic programs (be it in The Chronicle of Higher Education or in university press books), it decries their bigbusiness approach and loudly bangs the drum of academic reform. "