Center For Sports Governance
September 03, 2015 | Sports Governance
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Center for Sports Governance
The Mission
The mission of the University of Colorado-Boulder Department of Athletics Sports Governance Center is to conduct leading research, education and outreach related to the governance of sport. The Center is multi-disciplinary, problem-oriented and seeks to perform work with real world impacts. One important function of the Center is to contribution to a much greater degree of integration between the Department of Athletics and research/education which takes place across campus. Learn more ...
University of Colorado Press Release
CU-Boulder Department of Athletics explores creation of Sports Governance Center
The University of Colorado Department of Athletics is embarking on an ambitious new initiative between academics and athletics - the proposed creation of a Sports Governance Center (SGC), which would be among the first of its kind in the nation. If approved, the SGC would be an innovative academic unit within Athletics, with a mission that would focus on teaching, research and service. The goal is to conduct leading research, education and outreach related to the governance of sport, including college athletics and professional sports. A proposal for the center will be submitted in the spring to the Graduate School for approval, said CU Professor Roger Pielke Jr., who is spearheading the effort along with Athletic Director Rick George. Public lectures and events related to the center are being planned in the fall and a 2000-level, three-credit course called Governance of Sport is in the works for spring. Pielke taught a similar course in the spring 2014.
The vision for the center focuses on the implementation of rules and the exercise of power as related to the governing of sports. The subject matter would run the gamut from concussion studies, to doping in sports, to the ongoing FIFA scandal and the role of the NCAA and big time athletes at the modern American university. Read more ...