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Athletics Donors' Preferences For An Athletics Director's Leadership Characteristics And Behaviors, Brian D. Wickstrom
Athletics Donors' Preferences For An Athletics Director's Leadership Characteristics And Behaviors, Brian D. Wickstrom
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NCAA Division-IA intercollegiate athletics has become a big business with equally big expenses. Today’s intercollegiate athletics departments are feeling the state budget cuts, the strain to maximize donor support in order to balance the budget, and the challenge of chasing the ongoing goal of providing the best student athlete experience possible to young men and women across the country. It is absolutely critical today for intercollegiate athletics departments to run successful fundraising campaigns. Leadership has been shown to be one of the most significant factors in the successful development efforts of an intercollegiate athletics department. Research has shown that when …