When the NCAA permitted colleges to pay stipends to student-athletes, the colleges also raised their estimated expenses
- Written by: Willis A. Jones, Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of Miami
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The big idea
When colleges with big-time sports programs began to offer living expense stipends to their student-athletes back in 2015, the...
