Recently having successfully completed his defense of his doctoral dissertation at the University of Arizona, new assistant athletics director for external relations William Broussard presented in two paper sessions at the 2007 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in Chicago April 8-10.
AERA is "a national research society (that) strives to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good" (from the AERA Home Page). The conference hosts approximately 10,000 higher ED faculty, administrators, and graduate students presenting papers on various higher education topics including higher education policies and practices as well as pedagogical approaches for working with students from diverse learning and cultural backgrounds.
Broussard presented April 8 on a panel entitled "Research on the 'Front Porch' - Research and Inquiry on American Intercollegiate Athletics" with representatives from the University of Washington and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He presented a talk entitled "A Rhetoric of Resistance - The Lack of Sport Culture Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition."
On April 9, Broussard presented during a panel sponsored by the AERA Special Interest Group on Education and Sport. He presented a paper entitled "Redressing the Education of Student-Athletes: The University Writing Program as a Locus of Student-Athlete Advocacy." The paper was about the role that university writing program professionals have played in NCAA reform in the past two decades. The panel had approximately 75 attendees and other presenters from University of Central Florida, Loyola Marymount, Asuza Pacific, University of Miami, and Indiana University.
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