Title

In Demand? Examining Sport Management Faculty Openings And Hires

Keywords

Academic positions; Announcements; Faculty jobs; Hires

Abstract

Over the past 25-30 years, sport management has been among the fastest growing academic disciplines in higher education within the United States. However, the few universities producing sport management doctoral graduates have seemingly been unable to meet the demands for qualified individuals to teach at the university level. This study analyzed each of the 124 professorial advertisements for sport management/administration placed by U.S. universities over a one-year period, encompassing the 2005-06 academic year. The majority of the openings were in the Southeast, Northeast, and Midwest, with few listings in the Southwest or West. Nearly half of all listings were at institutions offering sport management only at the undergraduate level. A phone survey revealed only 69% of advertised positions were filled, with 53% of schools with failed searches citing a lack of desired applicants. A majority of schools that did not hire planned to re-post their positions the following academic year. © 2011 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

12-1-2011

Publication Title

Coaching and Management Techniques in Athletics

Number of Pages

125-134

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84896565322 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84896565322

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