Mar 1, 2024
@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