Markman, Ellen M.

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Abstract: Ellen M. Markman, psychology professor and Stanford University’s first female faculty athletics representative (FAR), describes how she was recruited for the position despite being fairly agnostic towards athletics--growing up before Title IX when neither she nor her female friends participated in organized sports. Notwithstanding this lack of expertise, she explains that she was enthusiastic about the challenge and eager to help maintain the integrity of Stanford’s athletic program and support the welfare of its student athletes. She serves in the position from 2005 to 2010. Markman discusses how she prepared for the job, from meeting with past FARs to relying on her husband to narrate football games until she could follow them herself. She goes over the specific duties of the job which included signing off quarterly on every student athlete’s grades and voting on updates to the extensive National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rulebook. In addition, Markman comments on the differences between Stanford’s and other universities’ treatment of student athletes, tells of the difficulties for coaches, students, and fans to abide by all of the NCAA regulations, and weighs in on the issue of paying student-athletes.

Type of resource	mixed material
Date created	November 2, 2017

Author	Markman, Ellen M.
Contributing author	Marine-Street, Natalie J.
Publisher	Stanford Historical Society

Subject	Ellen Markman
Subject	Stanford Historical Society
Subject	oral histories
Subject	interviews
Subject	higher education
Subject	professors
Subject	athletics
Subject	athletics > administration
Subject	athletics > compliance

Related item	Title Finding Aid
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/rc900vm9105

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Preferred Citation: Markman, Ellen M. (2017).
Interview for the Stanford Athletics Oral History Project. Stanford Historical Society Oral
History Program Interviews (SC0932). Department of Special Collections & University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Available at:
https://purl.stanford.edu/rc900vm9105.

Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program interviews, 1999-2022

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