The Concussion & CTE 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.
Workshop U is a one to three-hour, stand-alone curriculum that covers:
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.
If you're interested in bringing Workshop U to your classroom, please submit the request form and our team will be in touch to discuss the details.
Join the likes of our pilot schools - Boston University, Northwestern University, and Syracuse University - and scores of other institutions that have brought accurate and responsible concussion reporting to the next generation of sports media professionals. A complete list of our collaborating schools is below.
Interested in Workshop U? Reach out today!
Pilot schools:
Other partner schools:
"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
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 Concussion & CTE Foundation-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.
