Power Dynamics & Systemic Injustice

This research provides a full breakdown of the structure of a formal expertise major provided by institutions, allowing for the positive educational benefits of athletics to be realized and utilized.

This overview of athletics integration in higher education views racial bias as a major reason for the skewed perception of athletics and gives reasons for a for-credit structure. 

Elite college athletes experience significant privacy sacrifices. These dynamics are particularly prevalent in high-status sports whose participants are predominantly black men.

Athletes learn organic data literacy skills and can use data science to address systemic racial, equity, and justice issues in sport.

Athletes share experiences with transformative and destructive coaches who have significant impacts on their self-efficacy beliefs.

Front page coverage of intercollegiate athletics in five major newspapers reveals media coverage of an industry characterized by lavish spending and widespread corruption in football and men’s basketball enforcing racialized stereotypes.

Most college coaches do not have a basic knowledge of Title IX and possess a desire to learn more and have candid and meaningful discussions about these issues which will facilitate gender equity.

There is a critical gap in the Title IX education cycle and a noteworthy level of fear and discomfort associated with discussing issues related to the law in both the coach and administrator populations which propulgates gender inequity.

 Among the athletic directors who supported the clarification, there was an expressed hope that it will be a better measure of actual interest and will provide equal opportunity to both sexes as is desired by the student body. Another strong segment that expressed interest in the method reported their institution planned on utilizing it as part of a multi-method approach—with an expressed desire to comply with the spirit of Title IX legislation.