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What student services do campus athletes need?
College student-athletes are a unique population. While they have the same stressors as their peers, they also face increased visibility, demands on their time, rules and expectations.
Campus athletics departments are based on a business model. When student-athletes get into trouble, they report directly to the athletic administrators, whose goal is to keep them eligible to compete. This insulated environment can lead to abuses like those at the University of Colorado and elsewhere.
At the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) conference held in Tampa in March, Dr. Adrienne Leslie-Toogood discussed the need for student services professionals to pay more attention to the needs of student-athletes. She also reported on a research study of former student-athletes.
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A former Canadian collegiate student-athlete, she's an assistant professor in the department of counseling and educational psychology, coordinator of the curriculum for student services in intercollegiate athletics and a psychologist at Kansas State University. She also chairs the NCAA's equity committee.
Identifying, avoiding land mines
Leslie-Toogood and Ragean Hill, an academic counselor and coordinator of multicultural programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, conducted 90-minute interviews with 21 former student-athletes. They sought to identify the unique stressors that student-athletes face as well as the resources they use to overcome them.
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