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Sport Management Master’s Program 1 SPORT MANAGEMENT MASTER’S PROGRAM SELF-STUDY Prepared for the College of Arts & Sciences, University of San Francisco November 1, 2014 Sport Management Master’s Program 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 MISSION AND HISTORY ..................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 MISSION ............................................................................................................................................ 3 1.2 HISTORY ........................................................................................................................................... 3 1.3 GOALS 4 2.0 CURRICULUM .................................................................................................................................... 6 2.1 GENERAL OVERVIEW ....................................................................................................................... 6 2.2 ADMISSION AND TRANSFER POLICIES ............................................................................................ 17 2.3 ADVISING ....................................................................................................................................... 18 2.3 OVERALL ACADEMIC QUALITY ...................................................................................................... 19 3.0 ASSESSMENT ................................................................................................................................... 19 4.0 FACULTY ......................................................................................................................................... 21 4.1 DEMOGRAPHICS ............................................................................................................................. 21 4.2 TEACHING ...................................................................................................................................... 21 4.3 RESEARCH ....................................................................................................................................... 23 4.4 SERVICE .......................................................................................................................................... 25 4.5 RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS ................................................................................. 27 4.6 RECRUITMENT AND DEVELOPMENT .............................................................................................. 28 5.0 PROGRAM GOVERNANCE ............................................................................................................... 28 6.0 STUDENTS ....................................................................................................................................... 30 7.0 STAFF 32 8.0 DIVERSITY AND INTERNATIONALIZATION ..................................................................................... 33 8.1 DIVERSITY ...................................................................................................................................... 33 8.2 INTERNATIONALIZATION ............................................................................................................... 34 9.0 TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATIONAL RESOURCES ........................................................................ 35 9.1 TECHNOLOGY................................................................................................................................. 35 9.2 LIBRARY .......................................................................................................................................... 35 10.0 FACILITIES ...................................................................................................................................... 36 11.0 CONCLUSIONS ................................................................................................................................. 36 12.0 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE FUTURE ...................................................................................... 38 13.0 DATA APPENDICES ......................................................................................................................... 42 Sport Management Master’s Program 3 1.0 MISSION AND HISTORY 1.1 MISSION Consistent with the University’s mission: The core mission of the Sport Management Master’s Program is to promote learning through excellence in teaching and scholarship and through reasoned discourse in a cohesive, ethical, and communal environment. The Program offers students the knowledge and skills to develop into successful persons and professionals. The Sport Management Master’s Program will be internationally recognized as a premier Master’s Program that provides professional preparation and educates leaders. The Program will utilize its configuration as an evening program and its locations in large urban settings to promote learning outside of the classroom through internships, jobs, field research and other practical experiences. 1.2 HISTORY The University of San Francisco’s Sport Management Master’s Program (“SM”) is the largest, or one of the largest, sport management master’s program in the world. Moreover, it is also considered one of the best. A recent ranking by SportBusiness International put USF’s program at 7th in U.S. and 12th in the world out of more than 500 programs worldwide that entered into the ranking process.1 The Master’s Program is a 23-month, 36-unit M.A. degree program with approximately 200 students in matriculation. Courses are offered in the evenings allowing students to work full time. Students are admitted in San Francisco in both the summer and spring and admitted in Southern California only in the summer. Since moving to three cohorts per year, about 98 students graduate with their Master’s degree in sport management each year (approximately 68 in SF; about 30 in Southern California). As of July 2014, USF has over 1,500 alumni (or Sports & Fitness Management as was the prior name of the degree). Many of the alumni have been successful in the industry, both nationally and internationally, in a very short time period. We have the largest number of alumni of any graduate program in Arts & Sciences, and are currently the largest masters program at USF. The Sport Management Program began with its first cohort in January 1991 under the name Sports & Fitness Management and was initially part of the Exercise & Sport Sciences Department (ESS). At first a new cohort began once each year during the spring semester. Eventually (in 1999), the program enrolled two cohorts per year, one in January and the other in August (this was moved to July in 2003). An Orange, CA (Orange County) program was established in August 1999. A new cohort of approximately 35 students begins each July in Southern California. Currently there are four cohorts in San Francisco (each six months apart in terms of their matriculation) and two cohorts in Southern California (each one year apart). The Program informally severed its ties with the ESS Department around 2000. 1 While we do not necessarily agree with the methodology used by SBI, this is the only ranking system for sport management of which we are aware. Sport Management Master’s Program 4 In 2002, the Program underwent substantial changes in its leadership team. The name was changed from Sports & Fitness Management to Sport Management to better reflect the degree, clientele, and industry standard. The program also moved from the confines of the gym to Lone Mountain and upgraded the office space to represent an adult professional degree program. The curriculum was reviewed and significantly changed, adding elective courses, an accounting and budgeting course, and a strategic management course. Previous courses in facilities management and public relations are now occasionally offered as elective courses. Part-time faculty were all reviewed with some being replaced with more qualified professionals. Marketing efforts were improved and word spread of the increased quality. Community outreach efforts began with a quarterly newsletter and direct outreach in the community. The number of applications and prospects increased considerably in both San Francisco and the Southern California campus. Perhaps most importantly, retention improved dramatically indicating greater learning and satisfaction among students. In 2010, Dr. Nola Agha joined the program as Assistant Professor teaching courses in strategic management and research methods. Dr. Agha earned her Ph.D. in Business (with a focus in sport management) from the University of Massachusetts, but is also a graduate of the SM program back in 1999. In 2013, Dr. Michael Goldman joined the program as Assistant Professor teaching courses in marketing and business development & sales. Dr. Goldman joined the Program from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He replaced Dr. Andrew Choi who had joined the Program back in 2006. More extensive bios of all adjunct faculty are contained below in Appendix II and staff and faculty résumés and cv’s are in Appendix III. In the summer of 2014, Dr. Stan Fasci retired as Director of Administration and was replaced by Andrew J. Roberts (Drew), who was promoted from the Assoc. Director position overseeing the Orange County campus (see below). Drew had previously replaced Peggy O’Leary, who had retired in 2011. Brent von Forstmeyer replaced Drew in the Orange County campus, being promoted from Program Assistant