"Business of Amateurs" - Film/Panel Discussion
Join UConn-AAUP, the Sports Management Department, the Economics Department, and the Storrs Economics Club for a film viewing of "Business of Amateurs" followed by a discussion panel. Panel discussion features scientists, former athletes, athletic officials, and academics who address the role of athletics in an academic community and the impact on player safety.
Wednesday November 2, 2016
Reception Begins at 3:30, Program begins at 4:00pm
UConn Storrs Konover Auditorium in the Dodd Center
In a provocative yet sympathetic way the film contrasts the revenues from college athletics to the costs and benefits borne or received by student-athletes. The film has the academic purpose of promoting critical discussion and advocating, where feasible, improvements for student-athletes. It balances the passions of college academics and athletics with the concerns for the safety and education of the players that make college athletics so great.
The url for the film trailer is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SGtoOFoEuM
Film will be introduced by the film Director Bob Demars,
Panel Moderator: Dr. Laura Burton, UConn Associate Professor Sport Management. Her research interests include: how the experience of sport participation influences women’s career progression in business management and sport management. She is Editor in Chief of the Journal for Intercollegiate Sport, and a former athletic trainer.
Panel Members
James W Doran Jr, MS, ATC, UConn Assistant Athletic Trainer Men’s Basketball. He is the past President of the Connecticut Athletic Trainers’ Association and currently serves as a member of the Governmental Affairs Committee. He also serves on the Executive Council as the Treasurer of the Alliance for Intercollegiate Sports Medicine.
Dr. Joanne Conover, UConn Associate Professor of Physiology and Neurobiology, http://conover.lab.uconn.edu/. Her research interests include assessing traumatic brain injury that develops following several concussive head injuries. She chairs the Goldwater Nomination Committee, is involved with SURF, University Scholar and McNair fellowship programs, and is Director of UConn's Women in Math, Science, and Engineering (WiMSE) Learning Community from 2013-2015.
Katherine Price Snedaker, LCSW, Founder and Executive Director, PINKconcussions; http://www.pinkconcussions.com/. Her research interests include how is female and male athletes' differently experience concussion. She publishes in peer reviewed journals and presents her research findings at national and state concussion conferences.
Dr. Kathleen Segerson, UConn Professor of Economics and Chair of the President's Athletic Advisory Committee. She is a UConn Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and a UConn Alumni Association Distinguished Professor of Economics. Her research focuses on the incentive effects of alternative environmental policy instruments, with particular emphasis on the application of legal rules and principles to environmental problems.
For more information, contact: Oskar Harmon, Economics at oskar.harmon@uconn.edu