You will create a robust social media policy for a college athletic department. You have just
been hired as the new Sports Information Director of a Division I university. The university has
experienced several social media faux pas involving student-athletes and one administrator in the
last year.
INSTRUCTIONS
The Athletic Director who hired you wants you to develop a comprehensive social media policy
for student-athletes and athletic administration. This social media policy should be thorough
enough to not leave loopholes. In developing these policies, you need to consider and address the
following:
• Policies for Student-Athletes
• Policies for Athletic Administration
• Account Restrictions
• Account Verification Protocols
• Monitoring Logistics
• Appropriate and Inappropriate Post Material
• Recommendations for Content
• Recommendations for Privacy Settings
• Coaches’ Roles and Responsibilities
• Action Steps for Policy Violations
The above is simply a list of areas that need to be addressed, but certainly there are a myriad of
content areas that exist. You should create a policy that contains no or as few loopholes as
possible.
You are not permitted to simply copy parts or a full social media policy from another team. This
needs to be original work. While you can draw ideas from existing social media policies, your
finished product needs to be written in your own words and contain original work.
The policy should be clearly written, well organized, and easy to understand. Poorly written
policies can lead to subjective interpretation which can lead to either intentional or unintentional
violations of the rules.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.