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BOSTON, Mass. – Richard E. Lapchick, founding director of Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society, was named director emeritus of the Center effective August 8, 2001.

Lapchick, who has directed the Center for more than 17 years, helped create landmark programs for young people that promote team building, human and civil rights, and racial equality.

Lapchick was the American leader of the international campaign to boycott South African in sport for more than 20 years and is the author of ten books.

Often called the "racial conscience of sport," he is a regular columnist for The Sports Business Journal and The Sporting News, and has written more than 350 articles, given more than 2500 public speeches and is known for his expertise around the world.

He has received seven honorary degrees, most recently from St. John's University where he earned his B.A. in 1967. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Denver in international race relations in 1973. Lapchick has received numerous humanitarian awards throughout his distinguished career, including the Ralph Bunche International Peace Award and induction into the Hall of Fame of the Commonwealth Nations, alongside Arthur Ashe and Nelson Mandela.

While assuming his new role at Northeastern University, Lapchick, who has lived in Florida since 1997 where he ran the Center from an office at Disney's Wide World of Sport, has accepted a position at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

At UCF, he will serve as the DeVos Eminent Scholar Chair and the director of the sports business management program in UCF's College of Business. The curriculum of the new master's program will use the values of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society as its driving source.

Prior to his tenure at Northeastern, Lapchick was an associate professor of political science at Virginia Wesleyan College and a senior liaison officer at the United Nations between 1978 and 1984.

QUOTES FROM RICHARD LAPCHICK:

"My passion for working with the Center, my love for Northeastern University and my devotion to the staff of the Center make me extremely grateful that I will become Director Emeritus of Sport in Society."

"As I change roles, I am fully confident that Allyce Najimy, our new Senior Associate Director, will guide us with her strength, creativity and determination in the years ahead in conjunction with whoever is chosen as our new Director."

"I leave confident that the vision for the Center that we all helped create will remain intact. That vision includes: building current programs, spreading the curriculum of Project TEAMWORK and MVP across the nation, increasing research projects on social issues in collaborative efforts with prominent scholars, and increasing advocacy and work on issues of equity."

"My goal for the DeVos Program at UCF is that 10 years from now all sports business management programs across the country will recognize that the DeVos Program is not only the premiere graduate program addressing issues of sport business but also issues of sport in society."

"My hope is that UCF will adopt similar curriculum and values to those of Sport in Society so that all people desiring to work in the business of sport will understand not only how to be profitable but also how sports can help build community and improve the lives in our communities."

"As we begin a new era for Sport in Society, I thank all of those who have been with us from the very first days when Richard Astro, George Matthews, Jack Curry, and Scott Black got together to say that we can do something important. For those who have joined us along the way, it has been a great journey that has only just begun for Sport in Society."

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