Taking Action In Times Of Critical Change

Summary

• - Opening remarks (Frazier)
• - 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)
• - 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)
• - What have you seen on campus that has not worked?
• - What is the coach's responsibility in having these conversations with their student-athletes? Why only now are we seeing coaches respond? (Tucker)
• - How does an older, white male from a privileged background, reach a level of authenticity with a sincere desire to push for change?
• - 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?
• - 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?
• - 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?