Month: March 2015



Collective Uplift: How Research Could Reshape the Educational Experiences of Black Male Student-Athletes

March 13, 2015

This past fall, Neag Assistant Professor Joseph Cooper began reaching out to black male student-athletes at UConn, gathering them for a new grassroots effort called Collective Uplift, which seeks to empower, educate, and inspire ethnic minorities at UConn to maximize their full potential as holistic individuals, not exclusively in the realm of athletics, but also beyond.