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Lapchick is active in work against human trafficking and has added Shut-Out Trafficking to the NCAS's effort to combat human trafficking with week-long programs on NCAS campuses. Since 2014-15 there have been week-long programs on 28 NCAS campuses connecting with more than 54,570 participants. The
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in particular. Lapchick claims he was physically attacked in his college office in February 1978 just as it looked like the Davis Cup was going to be canceled. He claims he was attacked by men who proceeded to carve N-I-G-E-R into his stomach. Lapchick worked for the United Nations from 1978 to
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in 2001. In 2009 it was named the #1 MBA program in the nation for volunteer service. In 2015, Sport Business International named DeVos as one of the top three graduate sports business programs in the United States as well as one of the top five graduate sports business management programs
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1984. Lapchick claims his New York City apartment was ransacked in 1981 while he was leading a protest of a South African rugby team scheduled to play in the United States. His activism led to a personal invitation from
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Lapchick was engaged by the NBA in 2014 to help construct the case for why continued ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers by Donald Sterling was detrimental to the NBA after his racist remarks became public.
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Lapchick helped create the National Student-Athlete Day in 1988 which to date has recognized more than 2.6 million high school students for being citizen-scholar-student-athletes.
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Lapchick received a doctorate in international history from the Graduate School of International Studies (now the Josef Korbel School of International Studies) at the
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In December 2006, Lapchick, his wife Anne, daughter Emily, and a group of DeVos students formed the Hope for Stanley Foundation (HFS), which has worked to help
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Never Before, Never Again: The Stirring Autobiography of Eddie Robinson, the Winningest Coach in the History of College Football
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program is partnered with the US Fund for UNICEF and the USOC Athletes Advisory Council and is funded by the Fetzer Institute.
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from 1970 to 1978 and a senior liaison officer at the United Nations between 1978 and 1984. He then served as director at
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internationally. During his time at DeVos, Lapchick was named as "One of the 100 Most Powerful People in Sport".
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One year after the center's inception, Lapchick wanted to take its mission national and established the
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Lapchick accepted the endowed chair of the DeVos Sport Business Management Program at the
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and led the boycott of South African participation in international sports events, the
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honored him for "lifetime achievement in working for civil rights." Lifelong friend
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It reinforced his early experiences witnessing public hostility toward his father
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Lapchick founded the Center for the Study of Sport in Society (CSSS) in 1984 at
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Richard Lapchick, Smashing Barriers, (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 2001), 103-4.
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100 Trailblazers: Great Women Athletes Who Opened Doors for Future Generations
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While at the University of Central Florida, he remains President of the
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Oppression and Resistance: The Struggle of Women in Southern Africa
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100 Pioneers: African-Americans Who Broke Color Barriers in Sport
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Lapchick was an associate professor of political science at
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presented the award to Lapchick on behalf of Rev. Jackson.
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victims in Tuscaloosa, AL, in New York with the victims of
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Sport in Society: Equal Opportunity or Business as Usual?
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100 Heroes: People in Sports Who Make This a Better World
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On the Mark: Putting the Student Back in Student-athlete
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Smashing Barriers: Race and Sport in the New Millennium
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