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Outside the lines and beyond the classroom
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African American football student-athletes' experiences with race in academia
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Conroy
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Carissa Marie
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1987-
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Carissa Marie Conroy
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Rubin
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Thomas
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Thomas Stephens
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Rutgers University
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Intercollegiate athletics are a multi-million-dollar business on which many universities strive to become dependent for economic profits and marketing leverage. The increased commercialization and revenues of collegiate sports have drawn attention to the overall college experiences of student-athletes, specifically those in revenue generating sports typically football and men's basketball. Yet, the primary roles of the athletic and academic curricula should be to maximize student achievement, as well as prepare student-athletes for life after college. Like all of their peers, African American football student-athletes find themselves in highly competitive academic and athletic environments. However, they continuously encounter experiences in which their race is made salient, actions that thereby intensify their daily stresses. Student-athlete affairs personnel monitor the academic issues and stressors influencing student-athlete decisions. University student-athlete support services are then responsible for monitoring the effects of such decisions, while also being expected to understand that African American student-athletes encounter various challenges that are engrained within the history of sports in the United States, such as the deeply embedded racial tensions and concomitant negative effects of said tensions in American society. This case study explores how systemic racial inequalities impact the academic experiences of African American college football student athletes at a top Division I football program by utilizing a critical race organizational framework. No comprehensive documentation has been designed to specifically address the services that are required to assist in the academic successes of African American football student-athletes. Therefore, I will conduct one-on-one interviews with four athletic academic advisors who work with football student-athletes, as well as four focus groups each consisting of three African American football student-athletes in order to evaluate their experiences. I will then conduct follow-up one-on-one interviews with each focus group participant to give focus to their academic experiences prior to enrolling in college. The goal of this study is to provide university personnel with insights into the current academic experiences of African American football student-athletes at a Division I football program in relation to perceived racial inequalities. The findings will offer implications for policies and procedures impacting the well-being and success of African American college student-athletes, while also encouraging sport practitioners to consider how their beliefs, practices, and the current structure of sport culture may influence the athletic and academic experiences of African American student-athletes.
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Education, Culture and Society
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Race discrimination
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African American college athletes
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
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by Carissa Marie Conroy
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