Civic Engagement and Activism: Do College Students and College Athletes Differ?

Hoffman, Jennifer Lee; Kihl, Lisa A.; Browning, Anne

doi:10.1080/2194587x.2015.1028315

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“…All participants indicated that they engaged in community service outings with either their teammates or fellow student-athletes. This result echoes similar studies on student-athlete entrance and engagement in community service and volunteerism (Hoffman et al, 2015;Jarvie & Paule-Koba, 2012;McHugo, 2005). For Grace and Henry, team service outings were a vehicle to bond with teammates.…”

Section: Findings and Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

“…In a survey of 3,680 students across 46 institutions, researchers examined social activism, defined as the intent to reduce pain and suffering in the world, and charitable involvement, i.e., behavior that reduces pain and suffering (volunteering, donating money, participating in clothing or food drives, and helping friends with personal problems). Hoffman, Kihl, and Browning (2015) theorized that student-athletes volunteer more regularly than non-student-athletes due to the NCAA's marketing campaigns focused on community service, such as their "Play it Forward" promotions (NCAA, 2014). Their prediction was correct-through the administration of the National Civic and Political Health Questionnaire (Lopez et al, 2006) to 467 college-aged students, researchers found that 79% of male studentathletes reported engaging in service within the past 12 months, whereas 62% of non-athlete males reported serving in the same time span.…”

Section: Student-athlete Community Servicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Student-Athlete Career Development through Community Service: A Retrospective Study

Martin

2018

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The purpose of this study was to examine, through a retrospective lens, the effects that collegiate community service has on the career development of student-athletes under the umbrella of functional motivation theory. To do so, researchers analyzed the career development of seven former Southeastern Conference (SEC) student-athletes who were awarded membership to the SEC Community Service team through both individual and team contributions. NCAA Division-I student-athletes face hindrances through time restraints but also have resources designed to enhance academic and vocational development, such as the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Life Skills program (formerly CHAMPS). Through phone interviews focused on reflective collegiate community service and career development, several themes emerged. For collegiate community service the most common themes were: Service Settings, Current Service, and Time Restraints. For career development, the major themes were: Working with Diverse Groups, Scholarship and Admittance into Graduate Programs, and Career Choice/Personal Values. In analysis, the majority of the discovered themes align firmly with the National Association of College and Employer’s (NACE) career readiness competencies.

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Section: Findings and Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Section: Student-athlete Community Servicementioning

confidence: 99%

Student-Athlete Career Development through Community Service: A Retrospective Study

Martin

2018

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“…There is also a growing body of scholarship from North America that examines student-athlete engagement in community service initiatives. Research by Hoffman et al (2015) reported higher rates of community service by student-athletes than non-student-athletes. Hoffman et al (2015) attribute this trend to the institutional implementation of a nationally recognised Life Skills programme that promotes personal accountability and civic responsibility as part of the holistic development of the student-athlete.…”

Section: Sport-for-developmentmentioning

confidence: 94%

“They do treat us as a bit normal now”: Students’ experiences of liminality and communitas whilst volunteering on a sports-based outreach project

Hayton

2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Student volunteering during university has been widely championed for its purported benefits to both students and society alike. Internationally, universities have increasingly coupled student volunteering opportunities or embedded forms of service learning with sport-for-development programmes (SFD) as a means of contributing to strategic institutional objectives. However, there is a paucity of academic research that documents the social processes experienced by students as they converge with hard-to-reach client groups when volunteering on university-led SFD platforms. Therefore, and utilising data captured from semi-structured interviews (n=40), this article explores the lived experiences of undergraduate students who volunteered on a sports-based community outreach project: the Sport Universities North East England (SUNEE) project. Largely run by student volunteers, the SUNEE project delivers a raft of sports-based and personal development programmes to hard-to-reach groups. This article utilises Victor Turner's concepts of liminality and communitas to illustrate the processes of initiation and integration that confer both membership upon student volunteers and their legitimacy as leaders, when working with the hard-to-reach clientele on the project.

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“…The existing literature on student‐athletes performing community service, while valuable, is somewhat limited. Student‐athletes volunteer for community service at levels similar to other college students (Hoffman, Kihl, and Browning, ). Student‐athletes also participate in similar types of community service as other students such as working with youth and nationally known community service organizations (Andrassy et al., ).…”

Section: Research Contextmentioning

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Student‐Athletes Performing Community Service: Examination of Community Service Motivation and Athletic Department Involvement

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Bergman

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Social Science Quarterly

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Objective For this study, we seek to examine how student‐athletes’ community service is influenced by (a) their university's athletic department and (b) student‐athlete demographics. This was examined from the theoretical lens of student involvement theory (SIT). Methods Data were collected from active student‐athletes at National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, II, and III institutions via an electronic survey, which collected information on community service frequency, motivations to volunteer, and athletic department involvement. Results Student‐athletes were found to perform more community service during their upperclassmen years, if they had performed community service as punishment previously in college, and if they independently chose their community service activity instead of the athletic department. Conclusions These findings highlight both confirmation and rejection of SIT. First, results confirm SIT's belief that students will pursue more academically related activities if they choose the activity (i.e., choosing community service venue). Contrarily, findings related to punishment reject the tenets of SIT, highlighting that athletic departments forcing of student‐athletes to participate in an activity may be beneficial for their academic development.

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Civic Engagement and Activism: Do College Students and College Athletes Differ?

Cited by 16 publications

References 21 publications

Student-Athlete Career Development through Community Service: A Retrospective Study

Student-Athlete Career Development through Community Service: A Retrospective Study

“They do treat us as a bit normal now”: Students’ experiences of liminality and communitas whilst volunteering on a sports-based outreach project

Student‐Athletes Performing Community Service: Examination of Community Service Motivation and Athletic Department Involvement

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