Preparing the Next Generation of Doctoral Students in Sport Management: Ten Considerations

Jim Weese

2nd International Symposium for Collaboration in Research, Teaching and Exchange • Victoria University

• German Sport University • The University of Western Ontario

• April 8th, 2011

Greetings and Thanksfrom the

Faculty of Health Sciences

April 8, 2011

We welcome you in 2013

Preparing the Next Generation of Doctoral Students in Sport Management:

Ten Considerations

Jim Weese

30+ Year Reflection – graduate student, advisor, administrator

• Excellent programs and advisors • Hotly contested topic at the 2010 Academic of

Management Conference (Montreal)

“teaching the wrong stuff to the wrong people in the wrong place and at the wrong time”.

Henry Mintzberg (2004). A hard look at the soft

practice of managing and management development.

Exponential Growth of the Area as an Academic area

20 University programs in the United States in 1980; >200 in 2003; 335 in 2010 (grad growth as well)

Producing Enough Doctoral Graduates?

• University positions (Mahoney et al., 2004) 5:1

• Not all targeting university positions

• How prepared?

Ten Considerations to Heighten Effectiveness and Impact

• #1. Insist on Employment Experience before Admission

• #2. Explore Synergistic Opportunities in Program Design and Delivery (may be a necessity)

Ten Considerations to Heighten Effectiveness and Impact

• #3. Encourage Collaboration and a Learning Culture vs. Independence and a Performance Culture

• #4. Break Away from the Trap of Preparing Graduates in our Mold

Ten Considerations to Heighten Effectiveness

and Impact • #5. Also Prepare Graduates for Teaching and Service Roles in

Higher Education

•#6. Heighten Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning

Ten Considerations to Heighten Effectiveness and Impact

• #7. Insert More International

Experiences•

#8. Increase Support for Students (allow students to be

students)

Ten Considerations to Heighten Effectiveness and Impact

• #9. Rationalize Required

Courses, Rules and Routes

#10. Also prepare Graduates for Careers outside Academia

Conclusion

• Exciting and vibrant field• Great programs and a fabulous platform to build upon• We owe it to our field and future to

be more progressive

Jim WeeseJim WeeseApril 8, 2011April 8, 2011