Women in Sports: Achievements, Progress, Barriers
University Professor and NYU-SCPS Director of Public Dialogues Arthur Miller (right) leads panelists (left to right) Ted Shaker, Susan Tose Spencer, and Connee Zotos in a debate about women in sports at a Tisch Center panel in March 2011.
In March 2011, the
Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management hosted a panel on the achievements and progress women have made in the sports industry and the challenges they face. Moderated by NYU University Professor and Director of Public Dialogues Arthur Miller in the Socratic dialogue style he popularized on PBS’s Fred Friendly seminar series, the panel debated many topics, including the sports in which women can excel and the likelihood of whether a talented female athlete would be recruited by an MLB, NBA, or NFL team. Among the panelists were Jodi S. Balsam, acting assistant professor of law, NYU School of Law; Karin J. Buchholz, vice president of community relations and field marketing for MSG Sports Teams (New York Knicks, New York Rangers, and New York Liberty); Sharon Chang, IMG Worldwide, Inc. vice president; Wendy Hilliard, nine-time member of the U.S. Rhythmic Gymnastics National Team; Dana Jacobson, ESPN First Take host; Pat Manocchia, La Palestra Center for Preventative Medicine founder and CEO; Cameron A. Myler, four-time Olympian with the U.S. National Luge Team; Michael K. Ozanian,
Forbes SportsMoney host; Ted Shaker, managing general partner, Mercury Media, Inc. and former CBS Sports executive producer; Susan Tose Spencer, Philadelphia Eagles former counsel, vice president, and acting general manager; and Dr. Connee Zotos, NYU-SCPS Tisch Center clinical associate professor of sports management.
Terrorism: Its Effects on the Life and Industries of New York
NYU President John Sexton introduces University Professor Arthur Miller at the NYU-SCPS panel on terrorism in October 2010
In October 2010, NYU-SCPS hosted an important mediated public discussion focusing on the complex issue of terrorism entitled “Terrorism: Its Effects on the Life and Industries of New York” at NYU’s Washington Square campus. A collaborative undertaking of the School’s
Center for Global Affairs,
NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate, and
Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management, the evening brought together experts from the worlds of real estate, hospitality, sports and entertainment, the arts, the law and civil liberties, and international security planning.
Topics debated by the distinguished panel included the definition of terrorism; the media’s coverage of terrorism; and the influence of terror on policy, public discourse, and civil liberties. Panelists included Raymond N. Bickson, Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces managing director and CEO; William J. Bratton, Kroll executive chairman and former chief of the police departments of Boston, New York, and Los Angeles; Jacques Eshel-Azuelos, Blue Sky International CEO; Mark Galeotti, Center for Global Affairs clinical professor and academic chair; Karen J. Greenberg, executive director, Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law; Kevin Hallinan, Major League Baseball’s former senior vice president of security and facility management; James F. Hoge, Jr., Human Rights Watch chairman; Laura W. Murphy, American Civil Liberties Union Washington Legislative Office director; Bill Ritter, WABC-TV Eyewitness News co-anchor; Charles B. Strozier, director of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Center on Terrorism; and James Traub, The New York Times journalist and author.
