Small College

Purpose: The objective of this project was to investigate dietary behaviors and perceived food availability for small college student athletes.
Methods: Two-hundred seventy-two student athletes from a Midwestern urban city participated in this study. Students-athletes received an electronic consent form and a dietary survey containing question about demographics, food frequency, perceived nutrition environment and food security.
Results: The project indicated that athletes reported eating limited fruit and vegetables. Athletes also reported that fruit was available to them mostly as either  “always” (41.9%) or “often” (25%) and responded that vegetables were available “always” (45.2%) or “often” (27.2%).  Chi-Square indicated that there were significant differences between male and female athletes when reporting specific items.
Conclusion: There is a need for continued nutritional tracking to understand dietary habits of small-college athletes, and whether they have the available food needed for athletic and academic success.  In addition, effective nutrition interventions are needed to improve dietary intake: not only for performance, but also for health. 
Application in Sport: Understanding nutritional behaviors, motivators, and knowledge are essential for coaches and administrators. Tracking of dietary behaviors should allow key personnel to develop interventions for a team or identify problematic issues such as eating disorders, and injury recovery.

Business ethics is certainly not a new topic, but highly publicized corporate scandals have renewed the call for ethical decision-making in the business world. Colleges and universities are being challenged to better prepare future business leaders for ethical decision-making. The purpose of this paper is to share how the Economics and Business Department faculty from a small, liberal arts institution explored one model for integrating ethics education into the department curriculum. A team of department members explored ethics programs at other institutions and researched models for integrating ethics into the curriculum. Using ideas from their research the faculty team created an ethics colloquium that could be effectively piloted within the current department structure and curriculum. This paper describes the structure of the colloquium, student reflections on the benefits and suggested improvements for the course, and lessons learned by the faculty team that facilitated the course.