CT Post mentions Sport Management alumna and WBB assistant coach Jamelle Elliott.
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Gender Barriers in Sport
WISP quotes Dr. Jennifer McGarry on career paths as a coach and athletics director given her research related to gender and sport in a ‘conversation from the world of women in sports’ podcast.
Glanville Opens Up About Race, Sports, and His New Career
Sport Management’s Doug Glanville featured in Kiplinger
Q&A: Glanville Brings Major League Experience to UConn
UConn Today talks sports and teaching with former MLB player, Doug Glanville.
UConn’s Camara Has Healthy Attitude
Current UConn Sport Management senior, Batouly Camara is featured in the Journal Inquirer for being an ‘upbeat teammate despite succession of injuries’.
Ph.D. Candidates Integrate Open Dialogue Into Sport Management Courses
Several Neag School graduate students and faculty have been named 2019-20 Initiative on Campus Dialogues Fellows. This initiative brings together UConn students, staff, and faculty, as well as nonuniversity practitioners, to focus on dialogue and implementation. Sport Management graduate students Charles Macaulay and Ajhanai Newton, with Laura Burton and Justin Evanovich, are Fellows with their project “Sports Talk: Creating Dialogical Classrooms for the Development of Future Sport Leaders;”
Gerardo Blanco is a Fellow with the project “Promoting Cosmopolitanism through Global Dialogue in the Classroom”; and Patricia O’Rourke, a graduate student in curriculum and instruction, is a Fellow on the project “Continuing Project: Democratic Public Dialogue on Equity and Integration in Education.” Read more about Neag School’s ICD Fellows for 2019-20.
Op-Ed: Baseball’s Existential Crisis
Sport Management’s Doug Glanville authors op-ed in the New York Times on cheating scandals and the effects on the game.
Sport Management Doctoral Student Recent Success
Ajhanai (AJ) Channel Inez Newton, a doctoral student in sport management, received the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport’s Gary Sailes Award in November. She also co-published “Being Black in a Sea of Color: AA Phenomenological Study Exploring Black Students’ Racial Experiences at AANAPISI and Emerging HSI” for the December issue of Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity.
UConn Plays Host to International Sport Mentoring Program
Sport management faculty host Global Sports Mentoring Program delegate from Lebanon, UConn Today.
Career Night in Sport Photos, 2019
The Neag School of Education’s Sport Management Program hosted the annual Career Night in Sport at the UConn Alumni Center on Oct. 24, 2019. The event featured remarks from Doug Glanville, former MLB player and current academic technician with the Department of Educational Leadership, along with networking and sessions on a variety topics such as Navigating the Field, From Graduation to Graduate School, Sport in Education and the Community, Women Working in Sport, and Operations and Event Management. View the photo album.