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Tag: College athletics
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Atlantic Coast Conference Postpones Fall Sports
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) will postpone fall sports to at least Sept. 1 because of the coronavirus pandemic, the league announced on Thursday. The decision, made in a unanimous vote by the ACC Board of Directors, won’t impact football but will delay other sports like field hockey and soccer, ESPN reported. The football season […]
July 9, 2020
Sports
Diverse Celebrates Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars, Explores Future of College Athletics
Among the aspects of college life that have been disrupted amid the COVID-19 pandemic is athletics. Though the future of college athletics remains unclear, Diverse celebrated college athletes of color and explored how COVID-19 has impacted college sports through two recent online events.
June 7, 2020
Sports
Alignment of Values Crucial to Athletic and Academic Success
An important idea put forth at the Learfield Intercollegiate Athletics Forum presented by Sports Business Journal (IAF) is that the overall well-being of a college or university and its student-athletes requires an alliance between the board of trustees, the president and the athletic director.
December 6, 2018
Sports
Blanford Promotes Inclusion in New Role at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sheridan Blanford is the director of inclusion for the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she leads programming, initiatives, policies and procedures regarding diversity issues for student-athletes, coaches, administration and the larger campus community.
November 20, 2018
Sports
Study Reveals Bias against Female Basketball Players at HBCUs
A new study by a Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) professor indicates that women’s basketball teams at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are penalized at higher rates than teams from other institution types, suggesting that long-standing assumptions of racial bias in college athletics could be true.
October 2, 2018
Sports
False Equivalences Used to Deny Paying College Athletes
I say without equivocation: Enough with the false equivalences. Pay college athletes what they are worth based on the revenues they help generate. In theory, that is how the rest of the world operates, including the sports world.
May 2, 2018
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