Andrew Furco, OLPD Professor and UMN Associate Vice President for Public Engagement, has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 John S. Duley Lifetime Achievement Award in Experiential Education by the National Society for Experiential Education. This award recognizes the lifetime, sustained contributions and achievements of those who have devoted their professional careers to the […]

Lisa Kihl, PhD, associate professor of sport management in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Global Institute for Responsible Sport Organizations (GIRSO), is quoted in an Associated Press article, "100 Days: Tokyo Olympics marked by footnotes and asterisks."

School of Kinesiology associate professor and director of the Global Institute for Responsible Sport Organizations, Dr. Lisa A. Kihl, and her international team members, recently published a blog titled “Reducing Vulnerability to Fraud in Sport Organizations” in the Canadian Sport Information Research Centre.

Madeleine (Maddy) Orr, PhD, was recognized by Forbes in the 2021 30 under 30 in Sports list. Orr is a 2020 alumna of the School of Kinesiology PhD program, with an emphasis in sport management.

Lisa A. Kihl, PhD, associate professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Global Institute for Responsible Sport Organizations, recently published an article, “Corporate social responsibility and college sports fans’ online donations,” in the International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship. The research examines how college athletic departments’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives influence online donations from fans […]

Former School of Kinesiology doctoral student and founder of the Sport Ecology Group, Madeleine Orr, Ph.D., was recently interviewed on the podcast series “GreenSportsPod.” The podcast comes from the affiliated blog “GreenSportsBlog” and is a source for news and commentary on the intersection of green and sports.       In her episode, Orr spoke on […]

Lisa Kihl, PhD, associate professor of sport management in the School of Kinesiology was interviewed on The Intercollegiate Podcast about (NCAA) Rules and Ethics.  The Intercollegiate is a public-service journalism venture that critically confronts the subject of college sports. In this episode Daniel Libit, a journalist at The Intercollegiate, spoke with Kihl and former NCAA […]

In October 2019, Lisa A. Kihl, PhD, associate professor of sport management at the School of Kinesiology, and past president of the North American Society for Sports Management, led a panel discussion at the Play the Game 2019 conference. This panel was comprised of elite international athlete representatives. They spoke on the important topic of […]

Lisa A. Kihl, PhD, associate professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Global Institute for Responsible Sport Organizations, published an article, “Corruption’s impact on organizational outcomes,” in the Social Responsibility Journal. The publication was awarded as the 2019 Outstanding Paper by the journal. The paper outlines a study aimed to develop a model that examines the […]

School of Kinesiology associate professor Lisa A. Kihl, PhD, and lecturer Vicki Schull, PhD, have coauthored an article in the Journal of Sport Management titled “Understanding the Meaning of Representation in a Deliberative Democratic Governance System.” Their research demonstrates how athletes can have an influential voice in sport governance.

Lisa A. Kihl, PhD, associate professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Global Institute for Responsible Sport Organizations, recently presented two papers at the 2019 European Association for Sport Management Conference in Seville, Spain on Tuesday, September 3. The first paper, “A four country comparison of fraud in community sport organizations: A media content […]

Lisa A. Kihl, PhD, associate professor in the School of Kinesiology published in the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport. Her article, “Individual-Level Explanations of Corruption Within an Intercollegiate Context” generates an interdisciplinary framework of micro-level accounts of sport corruption in intercollegiate athletics. 

A Kinesiology PhD alumna published an editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer last week on pay equality for all women professional athletes. The editorial was sparked by the call for closing the pay gap between women and men women soccer players after the US Women’s National Team team won the Women’s World Cup for the fourth […]

Lisa A Kihl, PhD, associate professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Global Institute for Responsible Sport Organizations, co-authored an article, “Why Empowering Women in Sports Is a Winning Game Plan,” in Mediaplanet’s Women in Sports campaign. Women represent 45 percent of their leagues’ fanbases and have influence on 80 percent of […]

Lisa A. Kihl, PhD, associate professor of sport management in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Global Institute for Responsible Sport Organizations (GIRSO), traveled to Ghent University in Belguim May 6-10, where she served as an external member of the examination committee for doctoral student Bram Constandt. He successfully defended his thesis titled […]

On March 21, 2019 Lisa A. Kihl, PhD, associate professor of sport management at the School of Kinesiology spoke at Loughborough University London’s campus as a part of the external research series. Kihl’s talk, “Generating a meaningful athlete voice in sport governance,” was based on current research exploring the meaning of athlete representation and governance […]

Kinesiology PhD candidate Madeleine Orr, studying in the sport management emphasis, has launched a blog with fellow PhD student Walker Ross from the University of South Carolina on the topic of sport ecology for the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM). Their goal for the blog is “to advance the understanding that the relationship […]

Lisa A. Kihl, Ph.D., School of Kinesiology associate professor, and director of the Global Institute for Responsible Sport Organizations (GIRSO), was named to the 2019 Play the Game Conference Program Committee. Kihl and her program committee colleagues will be advising on themes and speakers for the 2019 Play the Game conference, taking place in Colorado […]

Lisa A. Kihl, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Global Institute for Responsible Sport Organizations (GIRSO), is presenting a sport ethics seminar to members of the Minnesota Chapter of the International Association of Special Investigation Units, on February 21, 2019. Kihl’s seminar, “Corruption in Sport: Industry Trends on the Causes, […]

School of Kinesiology sport management major, Sarah Heemstra, has been named winner of the William N. Wasson Student Leadership and Academic Award for 2018. This award, presented by NIRSA  (National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association), recognizes top undergraduate and graduate students who participate in or are employed by a collegiate Department of Recreational Sports. The award will be presented […]