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Student Athletes

Student athletes face a number of challenges, both in and out of the classroom. The resources listed here provide information about this sub-culture and how to best work with these students in a classroom setting.

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• Accommodating Student Athletes In the Classroom
  by Shalyn Claggett, Lecturer, Vanderbilt English Department
  Specific suggestions from the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University.

• IU Student-Athletes Face their Biggest Foe: Time
  This article was written by Ryan Piurek and focuses on the time demands experienced by student athletes. It is from Vol. 3, No. 2: Fall/Winter 2007 of the Teaching & Learning Magazine from Indiana University
  

• HOOS on the Team? Maximizing the Academic Performance of Student-Athletes
  Written by Jacquie Bussie, a TRC Graduate Student Associate and graduate student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, this article outlines some approaches that instructors can use to connect to the issues faced by student athletes.