Episodes

  • Title IX as a Point of Convergence: Media, Law, Commerce, and College Sport
    Mar 14 2025

    In this episode, we talk about the critical role storytelling plays in creating narratives that affect decisions that impact women college athletes, how the public views and engages with women college athletes, and how women college athletes tell their own stories.

    Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky

    Guest: Shannon Scovel is an assistant professor of journalism and media at the University of Tennessee with a research focus on sports media and athlete branding

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    40 mins
  • The Role College Athletics Plays in Enrollment at Small Private Institutions and Gender Equity Implications
    Feb 28 2025

    For those familiar with the history of college sport and higher education, athletics has played a key role in admission and enrollment efforts in colleges and universities since the late 1800s to the present. In the very early days when land grant institutions like LSU and private colleges like Stanford or Notre Dame were getting established, men’s sports programs became vehicles to attract new applicants and to create name brand recognition. In describing the relationship of athletics to a college campus, Scott Barnes, then athletic director at Utah State University in 2009 offered the metaphor that “Athletics are the front porch of the university. It’s not the most important room in the house, but it is the most visible”. For small private institutions in the 21st century, athletics has increasingly become a critical consideration in enrollment planning. From a strategic perspective, some schools have added men’s sports to respond to declining interest from male applicants. Other schools have added both men’s and women’s teams as part of what is a sports enrollment strategy to build enrollment. And still others gambled on sports enrollment as a survival strategy and lost. To help us gain a better understanding of how “sports enrollment” fits within a larger enrollment strategy for small private colleges, we are joined today by Dr. Steve Dittmore. Steve is dean of the College of Education and Human Services with the University of North Florida.

    Dr. Dittmore is a seasoned administrator who is a nationally recognized thought leader on issues related to intercollegiate athletic administration. His primary academic research areas include the role of athletics within higher education, Olympic and college sport policy and governance, government regulation of sport broadcasting and baseball history. He has been the assistant editor and content creator for AthleticDirectorU college athletics news platform and holds prior sport industry practitioner experience with a variety of high-profile organizations. He has authored numerous books and research articles on the industry, including a forthcoming biography Jim Gilliam: The Forgotten Dodger and his substack newsletter, Glory Days.

    Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky

    Guest: Dr. Steven Dittmore, Dean, College of Education and Human Services, University of North Florida

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    57 mins
  • The Political Forces Propelling Flag Football as a Preferred Women's College Sport
    May 31 2024

    In this episode we have the wonderful opportunity to visit with Coach Becky Carlson, the head coach of women’s rugby at Quinnipiac University about an article she recently published on LinkedIn entitled “Flag Football: The Double Standard, the Money, and the Death of Non-Revenue Sports”. Coach Carlson has been the head coach of women’s rugby at Quinnipiac since its inception in 2011, building the program from the ground up and creating a Division I women’s rugby program that in short order won three back to back NIRA championships and has won 70% of its games in the last 13 years.

    Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky

    Guest: Becky Carlson (Head Coach of Women’s Rugby at Quinnipiac University)

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    58 mins
  • Title IX From an Athletic Director's View
    May 10 2024

    In this episode we’ll speak with Renee Carlineo (IC ‘07), who is director of intercollegiate athletics and recreation at Buffalo State University about her professional journey to the AD’s chair, how her early work as a strength and conditioning coach and lacrosse coach and back in sport psychology has advised her approach to leadership and management. We’ll also get into some details on how to develop an approach to Title IX compliance and promoting gender equity within an athletic department.

    Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky

    Guest: Renee Carlineo (IC ‘07; Director of Athletics at Buffalo State University)

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Challenging Sex-Segregation in Sport and Exploring the Possibilities of Combined Men's and Women's Competition
    May 3 2024

    In this episode we have the wonderful opportunity to speak with Dr. Stephen Gambescia who is a Professor, Health Services Administration & Director, Doctor of Health Science College of Nursing and Health Professions at Drexel University. He recently published an article in the Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal entitled A Research Agenda for Combined Men and Women Sports Competition.

    Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky

    Guest: Dr. Stephen Gambescia (Professor, Health Services Administration & Director, Doctor of Health Science College of Nursing and Health Professions at Drexel University)

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    53 mins
  • A Conversation with Boxer and Poet, Raisa Tolchinsky
    Apr 26 2024

    In this episode we learn about the powerful and affecting journey of Raisa Tolchinsky, a boxer and poet who delivers in her collection of poems, Glass Jaw, the complexities so many women boxers and women athletes encounter in a space where liberation and empowerment is often abused.

    Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky

    Guest: Raisa Tolchinsky (Boxer and Poet, Author of Glass Jaw)

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    36 mins
  • Women in Sport Leadership Encountering the Glass Ceiling and the Glass Cliff
    Apr 19 2024

    In this episode we discuss the perceptions of women working in leadership roles in the sports industry, the experiences they have with the glass ceiling and glass cliff and the perceptions aspiring women professionals have of their prospects for becoming leaders in sport.

    Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky

    Guest: Meg Hancock (Professor at University of Louisville)

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Women College Athletes and Mental Health
    Apr 12 2024

    In this episode we discuss ongoing concern about women college athletes and mental health.

    Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky

    Guest: Rick Eckstein (Professor of Sociology at Villanova University and Author of How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls’ Sports: The Pay-to-Play Pipeline)

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    59 mins