Seminar on economics of intercollegiate athletics is Sept. 30
Released on 09/21/2011, at 2:00 AM
Office of University Communications
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
WHEN: Friday, Sep. 30, 2011
WHERE: Wick Alumni Center, 1520 R Street
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Business Administration will host a seminar on the economics of intercollegiate athletics at 10 a.m. on Sept. 30 in the Wick Alumni Center, 1520 R St. The seminar is open to the public.
John Siegfried, professor of economics at Vanderbilt University and secretary-treasurer of the American Economic Association, will present "What Does Intercollegiate Athletics Do to (or for) Colleges and Universities?"
“John Siegfried has a very entertaining and direct way of presenting economic ideas and issues,” said William Walstad, professor of economics at UNL and one of the seminar's organizers with fellow UNL economist Sam Allgood. Siegfried will cover the commercial qualities of intercollegiate sports, and how that affects the university as a whole.
“He’ll talk about the effects of sports on public relations for universities and advertising that occur from collegiate athletics,” Walstad added. “He’ll also address the issue of intercollegiate sports and donations to colleges and universities -- whether that’s a positive or negative effect. Then he’ll look at the effect of athletics and intercollegiate competition on the athletes themselves, both in terms of their academic performance and their athletic careers, either in professional sports or in other areas.”
The timing of the talk is also fitting because it will take place the day before the Nebraska football team plays at Wisconsin in its first Big Ten Conference game.
The UNL College of Business Administration serves 3,500 students with nine undergraduate majors, six master's programs, and is the only Ph.D.-granting business college in Nebraska. With 79 full-time faculty and more than 30,000 alumni, the College of Business awards $500,000 in scholarships annually. Established in 1913, the college was founding member of and accredited by the AACSB.
Writer: Roger Simonsen, College of Business Administration