Majeski Athletic Consulting had the pleasure of facilitating a workshop for The Midwest Conference, and NCAA Division III conference with 11 institution from Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. The day and a half long workshop was designed to help institutions leverage athletics to support their missions and overall educational experience. More than 50 representatives attended the […]
2014 NASPA Conference Presentation
Presented March 18, 2014 in Baltimore, Maryland. Summary The demands placed on today’s student-athletes challenge their own engagement in traditional student life. Campuses either ignore these issues or continue to try and force the “square peg into the round hole.” The key to effectively integrating athletics with student life is to first understand the student-athlete […]
Spelman College- Missing the Boat on Athletics
In November Spelman College, an historically black college for women in Atlanta, announced it was eliminating its NCAA Division III intercollegiate athletics program. Citing a desire to serve more students with the resources now dedicated to athletics (roughly $900,000), Spelman’s president announced a plan to focus on beefing up fitness, wellness, recreation and intramural programs […]
My Key Principles for Intercollegiate Athletics
This episode of Perspective on Athletics is a bit different than usual. Rather than addressing one topic, I will offer some of my random, and not so random, thoughts on how intercollegiate athletics needs to change, or at the very least engage in discussion about serious issues that continue to plaque the environment. The tables […]
The State of College Sports Today
The December 11, 2011 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education published a powerful headline on its cover: “What The Hell Has Happened to College Sports? And What Should We Do About it?” The article and commentaries came in the wake of the Penn State issues, but really was the climax of several high profile […]