Jun 21, 2020
AthleticDirectorU and Advent’s CEO John Roberson host a town hall with leaders from around college athletics to discuss how administrators and coaches are working to enact change on their campuses. The panel discusses promoting conversations with student-athletes, best practices for universities and departments to make a change, the responsibility of coaches to communicate with their student-athletes and much more.
3:36 - Opening remarks (Frazier)
9:34 - Over the course of your careers as leaders, what are some of
the practices you have had your programs(s) engage in to promote
conversations with student-athletes around issues of race,
diversity and minority status? From your experience are there
approaches that are largely ineffective when it comes to these
types of conversations? (Jude, Frazer, Castiglione)
30:02 - Should the athletics department be spearheading these
conversations with student-athletes, or does the institution have
an obligation to have a unified message and effort across the
entire student-body? What best practices have you seen universities
undertake as it relates to these efforts? (Howard & Gill)
43:23 - What have you seen on campus that has not worked
51:14 - What is the coach's responsibility in having these
conversations with their student-athletes? Why only now are we
seeing coaches respond? (Tucker)
1:08:03 - How does an older, white male from a privileged
background, reach a level of authenticity with a sincere desire to
push for change?
1:16:30 - Is anyone working or planning to work in congruence with
campus/city police to build trust and increase transparency between
student-athletes/overall student body?
1:30:12 - What can African-American assistant coaches say or do, to
help white head coaches to better understand how to use their voice
as a catalyst for change?
1:50:41 - How will you deal with season ticket holders, donors, and
alumni who don't agree with where you as an administrator or where
the university stands on social injustice?