Concussion Reporting Workshop U
Bring Concussion Reporting Workshop U to Your School
The Concussion Legacy Foundation Media Project's Concussion Reporting Workshop U is a curriculum for university journalism programs to train the next generation of sports media professionals to report on concussions accurately and with confidence.
If you are interested in bringing Concussion Reporting Workshop U to your school or would like more information, please email Education Programs Manager Brandon Boyd at bboyd@concussionfoundation.org with your name and school.
![Concussion Reporting Workshop Boston University](/sites/default/files/2021-01/Boston%20University%20Concussion%20Reporting%20Workshop.jpg)
What is the Concussion Reporting Workshop U?
![Syracuse University Concussion Reporting Workshop](/sites/default/files/2021-01/Syracuse%20Concussion%20Reporting%20Workshop.jpg)
Syracuse's Olivia Stomski teaches Workshop U to her students in winter 2019.
Workshop U is a one to three-hour, stand-alone curriculum that covers:
- Why good concussion reporting matters.
- How the media has helped change the concussion culture over the last 15 years.
- How changing the concussion culture will help protect athletes’ health.
- Our 22 core lessons on accurate and responsible concussion reporting.
- Video examples of concussion coverage for students to practice with.
Staffing and budgetary limitations prevent us from travelling to present the Workshop each time it's taught unless travel costs are covered by the school or presented virtually. Workshop U is designed so any interested professor could teach it independently in his or her class.
Collaborating Schools
Pilot schools:
- Boston University's College of Communication
- Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism
- Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Other partner schools:
- Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Auburn University's School of Communication and Journalism
- Baldwin Wallace's Sports Management Major
- Bloomsburg University's School of Media and Journalism
- Boston College's Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
- Bournemouth University
- Clemson University's College of Communication
- Full Sail University's Dan Patrick School of Sportscasting
- Indiana University's Media School
- Ithaca College's Roy H. Park School of Communications
- Marist College's Center for Sports Communication
- The Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia
- New York University's Preston Robert Tisch Institute for Global Sport
- Ohio State University's Scarlet and Gray Sports Radio
- Penn State University's John Curley Center for Sports Journalism
- Rowan University's College of Sports Communication and Media
- St. Bonaventure University's Jandoli School of Communication
- St. Mary's University Twickenham's Sports Journalism program
- The School of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee
- University of Alabama's College of Communication and Information Sciences
- University of Arkansas' School of Journalism and Strategic Media
- University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications
- University of Maryland's Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism
- University of South Florida's Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications
- University of Texas' Moody College of Communication
- University of Washington's Department of Communication
- West Virginia University's Reed College of Media
Testimonials
"The great thing is, they've established a template. So we can be consistent, we can be accurate, we can be informative, and this should be something that will be a staple of my sports reporting classes and commentary classes."
-J.A. Adande, Director of Sports Journalism, Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism
"It was an excellent presentation. The speakers were great, the pace was great, the examples were great, and I loved how interactive it was. Very informative, very interesting, very helpful."
-Susannah Sudborough, Student, Boston University College of Communication
"It was a worthy endeavor. It provided a results-oriented and positive learning experience for attendees."
-Mark Condron, Professor, Full Sail University's Dan Patrick School of Sportscasting
Assessing Student Learning Via Qstream
We partnered with Qstream, an interactive spaced-learning platform with a proven track record in improving performance in the healthcare and sales industries, to develop a set of questions to test concussion reporting knowledge. Students at collaborating schools take a CLF-provided and Qstream-developed challenge to test their knowledge on the basics of concussion, how to properly describe concussions, what should happen during in-game concussion evaluations, and what to expect after a concussion is diagnosed. Students are given the challenge before and after the Concussion Reporting Workshop to assess the growth in their concussion reporting fluency. In our first year, students at our partner schools grew their concussion reporting fluency by an average of 44% from pre to post-test.
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