 | 2025 Sack Symposium Program, Registration, and Sponsorship Information “The Pivot Point: College Athletics at a Crossroads” National experts discuss how the landscape of college sports continues to evolve, examining the shifting dynamics between education, athlete compensation, and the commercialization of college athletics. They will explore alternative academic pathways for college athletes, increased pressures affecting college mental health and well-being, and how the changing economic environment impacts gender and racial disparities among athletes and other stakeholders. |
 | 2025 Sack Symposium Sponsor a Student Our Donors and Sponsors Make It Possible for Students to Attend at No Cost. Conferences such as the Allen Sack National Symposium are invaluable professional development activities for students that they typically cannot afford. The Drake Group Education Fund is dedicated to removing financial barriers and making this enriching experience accessible to all students. |
 | 2025 Sack Symposium – APPLY FOR FREE STUDENT TICKET Up to one hundred sports management, sports law, and other currently enrolled students in sports-related majors from colleges and universities within 60 miles of Washington D.C. will attend at no charge thanks to sponsors and donors. We believe you are the future leaders who will ensure that college athletics is a safe and rewarding experience, free from race and sex discrimination, and delivering on the promise of receiving a meaningful education. |
 | Meet Allen L. Sack, Ph.D. On May 19, 2022, The Allen Sack National Symposium – Advancing Integrity in College Sports, was named in honor of this former athlete, nationally recognized scholar, and activist leader whose professional life was devoted to protecting college athletes from educational and economic exploitation, sex and race discrimination, and physical and mental abuse. |
 | 2024 Sack Symposium Program, Recording and Resource Materials “The College Athlete: More than a Marketplace” Speakers address college athletes’ well-being with a focus on hazing, bullying, coach misconduct, food and shelter insecurity, depression, and other mental health issues. Also examined: wagering, match fixing, and gambling addiction risks in college sports, the precarious economic future of college athletics, and whether higher education will succeed in balancing commercialism and academic integrity. |
 | 2023 Sack Symposium Program, Recording and Resource Materials “Realizing the Promise of Graduation” Speakers offer remedies to low graduation rates of male and female scholarship athletes participating in football and basketball at the highest competitive levels of the NCAA – athletes who are majority minority and whose sports annually generate $15.8 billion in annual revenues for their athletic programs. |
 | 2022 Sack Symposium Program, Recording, and Resource Materials “Addressing the Most Challenging Issues in College Sport” The inaugural 2022 Sack National Symposium educated the public about Congressional legislative initiatives that could advance improved educational outcomes and the health and safety of college athletes while retaining all of the positive individual development effects and campus/community camaraderie we all love about intercollegiate athletics. Click on title to access all recorded sessions and educational materials utilized for the symposium. |
