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Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder interviews Jennifer Jacobs on diversity in athletic administration

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Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder - logoThe Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder recently interviewed Jennifer Jacobs, assistant athletic director at Augsburg College, for an article聽on the challenges present as colleges seek to increase the diversity of their coaching and administrative staff.

In the article, Jacobs discusses some of the steps higher education administration can take to create a pipeline for people of diverse backgrounds to enter leadership roles. She notes that it is important for institutions to encourage women to seize new opportunities and to promote聽candid conversations on difficult topics like race.

“[Schools] need to find and foster the female student athletes that would want to get into coaching, administration 鈥� you name it, all the way up to the presidential level,鈥� Jacobs聽said.

搁别补诲听聽on the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder site.

Jennifer Jacobs and Rob Harper ’16 interviewed on diversity in college athletics

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Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder - logoThe Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder recently included comments聽from Jennifer Jacobs, assistant athletic director at Augsburg College, and student athlete Rob Harper ’16 in an article on the struggle to increase the diversity of coaching and administrative staff at NCAA schools. The article is a response to pro-diversity resolutions passed at the league’s annual conference last month.

In the article, Jacobs acknowledged聽that the drive for inclusion and diversity must start at the top. “Athletic directors and assistant athletic directors can鈥檛 feel empowered unless it comes from the presidents,” she said.

Jacobs added that “…people in general will hire people that look like them. The only way to counteract that is [that] you have to be intentional in your hiring practice.”

Harper, a sociology major and member of the Student Athlete Advisory Council, discussed his experience attending the conference and interest in observing the league’s voting process.

Read on the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder site.