The Failure of College Sport as an Equal Opportunity Employer

Author(s)

Richard Lapchick, University of Central Florida

Description

The University of Central Florida (UCF) Forum is a weekly series of opinion columns presented by the UCF News & Information. The columns are the opinions of the writers, who serve on the UCF Forum panel of faculty members, staffers and students for a year. A new column is posted each Wednesday at UCF Today and then broadcast between 7:50 and 8 a.m. Sunday on WUCF-FM (89.9).

Publication Date

8-20-2014

Keywords

College sport; Sports; Equal opportunity; Diversity; Ethics; Racial and Gender; Racial-hiring; Gender-hiring; Discrimination; Female coach; White maleness; Sport and society

Introduction

As someone who has worked for institutions of higher education for more than four decades, it is especially embarrassing for me that colleges have the worst record in sports for hiring women and people of color.

Subjects

Sports; Discrimination in employment; Ethics; Discrimination

Creator (Linked Data)

Lapchick, Richard Edward(VIAF); Lapchick, Richard Edward(LC)

Collection

UCF Forum

Publisher

University of Central Florida

Source

https://today.ucf.edu/failure-college-sport-equal-opportunity-employer/ (UCF Today: UCF Forum)

STARS Citation

Lapchick, Richard (2014). The failure of college sport as an equal opportunity employer. UCF Today, 2014-08-20. Retrieved from https://today.ucf.edu/failure-college-sport-equal-opportunity-employer/

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