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Professional Appointments

Peter Roby has been named athletic director at Northeastern University (Mass.). He becomes only the second Black AD at a New England Division I institution. Roby was previously director of Northeastern’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society. He earned a bachelor’s from Dartmouth College.


 

Dr. Maurice Apprey has been named dean of the Office of African-American Affairs at the University of Virginia. He had been serving in an interim role. Apprey earned a bachelor’s from the College of Emporia, a doctorate from the Saybrook Institute and Research Center in Germany and a doctorate from Case Western Reserve University.


 

A New Track: Fostering Diversity and Equity in Athletics
American sport has always served as a platform for resistance and has been measured and critiqued by how it responds in critical moments of racial and social crises.
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A New Track: Fostering Diversity and Equity in Athletics