Business professor to serve as next faculty athletics representative

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has selected Scott M. Fuess Jr., professor of economics, to serve as its next faculty athletics representative.

The position serves as a liaison between the Office of the Chancellor and Athletics Department, focusing on the welfare of student-athletes, NCAA compliance, developing and responding to NCAA legislative proposals and representing the university at NCAA and Big Ten Conference meetings.

Fuess, the Steinhart Distinguished Professor of Business and chair of the Economics Department, has worked at UNL since 1986.

In August 2018, Fuess was named director of the university's cross-disciplinary master’s degree program that offers a specialization in…