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Alabama State Launches Women’s Flag Football

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Adding this program to our institution allows Alabama State University to align its sports offerings to the global standard and to the future of an emerging sport,” Ross continued. We look forward to doing our part at The Alabama State University to assist in growing the sport locally and regionally,” said Cable. “We

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Forward Motion, Olivia Womack, 2024 Female Winner

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Female Sports Scholar is bound for law school in the fall. Womack moved several times growing up, and if not for sports, she would have had an even harder time adapting. Thinking of how much she enjoyed watching the Olympics — her favorite sprinter is Elaine Thompson-Herah — she decided to give it a go. The 2024 Arthur Ashe Jr.

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Thirst Drives Diver to Reach New Heights

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Male Sports Scholar. team for the 2023 World Aquatics Championships and the long-term goal is competing at the next two Olympic Games. To ensure his best shot at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, he will be taking the extra year of collegiate eligibility available to him. His immediate goal is to earn a spot on the U.S.

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High-achieving Indian alumni honoured in UK

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Sport Neeraj Chopra | Graduated from Loughborough University Chopra is the reigning Olympic , World and Asian Games champion in men’s javelin. He led South Asia’s largest population-based screening program now expanding nationally across India. He also founded the Association of Breast Surgeons of India.

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Athletics and Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Organizations rooted in sports incorporate educational curriculum that helps participants be better prepared for higher education. She discovered a love for the sport that led her to competitive fencing, Columbia University, international competition, and two Olympic Games.

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$16B College Sports Revenue and Regulations: Knight Commission Insights: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 171 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Amy Privette Perko

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The report asks where all this money is going, how it’s going to be spent, if higher ed is going to move to an employee or revenue-sharing model, and how this will impact other sports. Meanwhile, the NCAA will govern all other sports. This isn’t a proposal to dismantle every conference.

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Teaching Lower-Division Undergraduates to Think Like Anthropologists, Economists, Geographers, Political Scientists, Psychologists and Sociologists

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What a great tag line for a book: “the definitive Freakonomics for sports.” A blurb describes it quite accurately as “a fun and insightful account of what happens when economic thinking intersects with the world of sports.” Some of Oyer’s insight won’t surprise you.