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Covid-19 President_Community Message From Umaine President And Athletics Director, Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Ken Ralph

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Email from Joan Ferrini-Mundy, President and Ken Ralph, Director of Athletics, University of Maine regarding the postponement of the fall 2020 sports season.

The Role Of Sports From Yarmouk University Students’ Perspective In Strengthening Patriotic, Social, And Moral Values., خالد الزيود, نزار الويسي, مريم أبو عليم

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education (مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية (للبحوث في التعليم العالي

The study aimed to identify the role of sport activities in the development of the social, moral and patriotic values from Yarmouk University student's perspective. The researchers in this study used the expressive descriptive approach and applied a survey that consisted of fifty-seven items divided into the following (3) domains: social values, ethical values, and national values. The study sample included (650) Yarmouk University male and female students who were randomly selected. Study results showed that sport activities practice have a positive effect on development ethical, social, and national values on university students. The effect was higher on male students …

Kinesthetic Language: A Dialect Of Kinesics, Terrill Suzanne Corletto

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Human communication requires the disciplines regarding physical fitness, codified language, and the performing arts to overlap, and exist symbiotically. Within the realm of artistic performance, the three disciplines working together deliver a deliberate message in a way unique to performing artists. The general tendency to compartmentalize sports, communication, and the performing arts into their pigeonhole categories of Kinesiology, Linguistics, and Theatre Arts is impractical, particularly for performing artists simply because all of the disciplines are mutually dependent in the context of all kinesthetic communications.

The purpose of this paper is to define and discuss several concepts and the ways in …

If You Can’T Beat Them, Join Them: A Quantitative Look At Conference Realignment And Fbs Institutions, Daniel H. Hrdina

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

This study took a quantitative look at the statistical effect on admissions of NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly Division IA, institutions’ moves from one athletic conference to another conference with greater athletic success. This study was unique because although previous research in the area of college athletics had identified number of applications and quality of the applicants as variables associated with athletic success, there has been minimal research on the statistical relationship of changing football conferences while using these variables. This study also provides a clear definition and ranking system for yearly conference prestige. The research question …