Karen Weaver

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Karen Weaver is a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, ranked #1 in the nation by U.S. News and World Reports.


In Fall 2021, she will lead a brand

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Karen Weaver is a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, ranked #1 in the nation by U.S. News and World Reports.


In Fall 2021, she will lead a brand new program at Penn GSE for senior campus leaders on oversight of college athletics.


She is an expert on college sports as they intersect with higher education management, media, and policy. Dr. Weaver examines college athletics from the perspectives of university presidents and trustees, athletic conference organization, higher education scholars, and sports finance.


She spent 14 years in the Big Ten Conference as a coach and administrator. She also led her team to the Division III NCAA National Championship in field hockey in 1986 (21-0), Additionally, she has been an athletics administrator in NCAA Division III.


Dr. Weaver has received numerous honors and appointments during her years in college athletics.


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Aug 10, 2021

NCAA’s Exit Interview Process Seems To Be Failing The Athletes

For the last decade, Article 6.3 of the NCAA Manual has required athletic programs to conduct some form of an “exit interview” (or an end-of-the-season interview) with athletes leaving their programs. Did Syracuse comply with this responsibility?
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Jul 30, 2021

NCAA Can No Longer ‘Tweak’ Its Governance Model. Real Change Is Needed.

Hoping to get ahead of some of the legal challenges by furiously lobbying Congress for relief from antitrust concerns, Makan Delrahim, former assistant attorney general in the Trump administration told me in a podcast, “the NCAA badly miscalculated in their efforts” to secure an exemption.
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