Brian Shannon | Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) | Texas Tech University - One Question Leadership Podcast
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English - March 01, 2024 17:04 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsSports Business Careers leadership athleticsdirector collegeathletics collegebasketball collegefootball d1t d1ticker ncaa sportsbiz sportsbusiness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
@1QLeadership Question: Can the Faculty Athletics Representative's (FAR) role overlap with their research and professorial responsibilities?
As a Faculty Athletics Representative at Texas Tech, Professor Brian Shannon is responsible for advocating for student-athlete welfare. While his primary teaching responsibility is contract law, he focuses his policy and research work on mental health law, an area he has been researching for a lifetime due to his family experience with mental illness.
Professor Shannon explains that mental illness patients often get caught in the criminal justice system without receiving treatment. He also emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between having a mental illness and dealing with mental health challenges. As mental health is a top issue faced by NCAA student-athletes, the NCAA Mental Health Best Practices are continuously updated to provide support. - One Question Leadership Podcat - Tai M. Brown