Hollins University President Nancy Oliver Gray said in a recent interview that the “professionalization of intercollegiate sports” is drastically changing the higher education complex — and hers isn’t even an institution with high-level athletics programs.
It’s hard to refute the point. As March Madness comes to a close and the men’s and women’s basketball players — and all of the cheerleaders, band members, student assistants and others involved in the road exhibitions — return to class, there is some reflection around the country on how the enterprise grew so big.
