PHILADELPHIA – Leaders from the American Athletic Conference and its 12 member institutions participated in the Conference’s Academic Consortium Symposium on March 23-24. The Symposium, held at Philadelphia’s Hilton Penn’s Landing Hotel, brought together conference athletic and academic leaders as well as student-athletes. The two-day event focused on student well-being, and featured panel discussions involving mental health, rest and recovery, traumatic brain injury, body image, and nutrition, among other subjects.
Temple University hosted the symposium, with School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management Associate Professor Dr. Jeremy Jordan, Director of Temple’s Sport Industry Research Center and Temple faculty athletics representative (FAR), helping to organize the event’s programming.