Assignment # 8

Instructions

For your Signature Assignment, you will perform fieldwork that involves researching issues facing academic advising and the current strategies that are being utilized by advisors in the NCAA institutions to work with student-athletes. As noted early on in the course, you should have already set up an appointment to meet with an athletic administrator who deals with the student-athlete advisory operations for academic and career development, by phone, email, or, preferably, in person.

You will specifically need to interview an athletic department’s Student-Advisory Officer or any other position that is responsible for the advisory operations at an institution.

Your interview should address the following three areas:

Does your institution have an advisement program that addresses the student-athletes’ academic and career development needs? If not, do you plan to have one in the future? If so, discuss the important pieces of information that are involved in the program.
Discuss the process of your program.
Describe the methods used to notify student-athletes of the eligibility requirements, personal development assistance, and other athlete services available within the department. (If a student-athlete’s handbook is available, request if a copy for examination is permissible)

You will need to create an additional five (5) questions that will be used to interview the desired individual in your geographic area, and identify those questions in your paper.

Tips for creating your interview questions:

Create a variety of alternative questions for your interviewee if your first set of questions are unable to be answered.
Be sure your questions are open-ended; avoid questions that can be answered with one word.
Provide support why the question you developed are critical in the field of intercollegiate athletics with clear justification and accurate rationale.

Then, you will list the questions and answer (transcript) for your interview. After you have written the transcript of your interview, you will conclude your paper with examples of the literature you have read about throughout the course and how it is relevant to this interview and why.

If the person you interview provides attachments or links for their compliance material, please include it in your document or in the references section of your paper. Be sure you are clearly stating all findings from the interview while providing your views of the athletic department’s policies and procedures relevant to compliance.

Illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of the department’s services program from the interview while explaining the instituted programs’ effectiveness for a student-athlete’s academic progress. Present instituted measures from research in order to evaluate the assessment of the student-athlete’s academic progress and retention. In your presentation, identify the measures that the interviewed program may institute for continued success of their academic services program.

Length: 12–15 pages not including title and reference pages.

References: Minimum 7 scholarly resources.

Please make sure that five of the eight required resources are from journals, periodicals, or books concerning advising the student-athlete for areas that must be developed within this program such as learning disabilities and eating disorders.

Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Review APA Form and Style.

Here is an example of week 8 assignment just wanted my old assignment fixed to match an interview for a student advisor.. thank you

Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy. Review NCU’s Academic Integrity Tutorial to refresh your knowledge of how to achieve academic integrity.

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Follow these procedures: If requested by your instructor, please include an assignment cover sheet. This will become the first page of your assignment. In addition, your assignment header should include your last name, first initial, course code, dash, and assignment number. This should be left justified, with the page number right justified. For example. Save a copy of your assignments: You may need to re-submit an assignment at your instructor’s request. Make sure you save your files in accessible location. Academic integrity: All work submitted in each course must be your own original work. This includes all assignments, exams, term papers, and other projects required by your instructor. Knowingly submitting another person’s work as your own, without properly citing the source of the work, is considered plagiarism. This will result in an unsatisfactory grade for the work submitted or for the entire course. It may also result in academic dismissal from the University. In 2003 there were 15.3 million students attending college, nearly ten years later in 2012 there were a reported 17.7 million students. The growth alone suggest that education is becoming a more viable option to high-school students. Of the 17.7 million students many of them are student-athletes. Intercollegiate athletics has had a constant increase of student-athletes. Recently the increase has quickly accelerated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) reporting over 19,000 teams competing in the 2013-2014 school year (Johnson, 2014). The NCAA is an organization made up of over 1,123 colleges and universities, 98 voting athletic conferences, and 39 associated organizations (ncaa.org). This organization is dedicated to the well-being and lifelong accomplishments of college student-athletes. With over 400,000 college student-athletes participating in Division I, II, and III sports (Lombardi, Conley-Downs, Downs, Conley, 2012) the NCAA has had significant growth in men and women athletes and sports. The NCAA is made up of college presidents, athletic directors, compliance officers, and many other staff members. The NCAA is the governing body which maintains a system of checks and balances for schools to abide by. The NCAA is divided into three divisions; Division……….

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