CFP: Intercollegiate Athletics at Metropolitan Universities: Opportunities and Challenges

Call For Proposals: Intercollegiate Athletics at Metropolitan Universities: Opportunities and Challenges

Metropolitan Universities (http://muj.uc.iupui.edu/index.htm), a quarterly peer-reviewed journal funded by the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (www.cumuonline.org), is soliciting article proposals for an upcoming issue that will examine the role of intercollegiate athletics in contributing to the educational mission of metropolitan universities. The journal is especially interested in research-based articles which address how intercollegiate athletics both add to and detract from the academic experience of commuters, part-time students, students of diverse language and cultural backgrounds, and first-generation students.

Submission Guidelines:

Proposals should be 300-500 words in length. All proposals should include submitter’s name, affiliation, 100-word bio, and email address as well as a working title for the proposed article. Final manuscripts should be 4,000-7,000 words in length.

Production Schedule:

The schedule for this issue is as follows:

• 7 January 2012: 300-500 word proposals due

• 18 February 2012: Guest editor returns proposal decisions to submitters

• 15 July 2012: Draft manuscripts of accepted proposals due (This gives contributors about five months to write their articles.)

• 15 August 2012: Guest editor returns drafts with suggestion for revision

• 15 October 2012: Final manuscripts due