What Kain Colter Really Learned At Northwestern
When Kain Colter called for Northwestern football players to unionize in early 2014, he cited his experiences in my class, “Field Studies in the Modern Workplace,” as the turning point in his thinking on the status of NCAA “student-athletes” (or “workers,” depending on one’s interpretation). The idea to establish a union was entirely Kain’s own—he had been interested in expanding protections for NCAA players long before he stepped into my classroom—but, as a teacher, I was thrilled that the work we did in my course helped Kain pursue something so meaningful to him.http://deadspin.com/kain-colters-u...