UAB Associate Vice President and Director of Athletics Mark Ingram sits down with ADU’s Tai M. Brown at the 2025 NACDA Convention to offer insight into how he’s translated his core values into actionable vision for the Blazers. Ingram: “When I got the job, which I basically got because nobody else wanted it, and all my mentors said, ‘Don’t go there, that’s a career-ending job, don’t do it.’ But that was the opportunity – to go fix that and change [it]. It was the right time. Identifying what are those things that need to be done was incredibly easy.”
Ingram and Brown connect Ingram’s passion for service with his three values for the department – winning championships, graduating with honors and making a difference – and how the Blazers have tapped into those values to attract resources for facilities enhancements in an effort to propel key programs forward.
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