FoSI Commons

The University of Kentucky is known for both academic and athletic excellence, and across campus, there is a wide range of sport-related teaching, research, and partnerships. FoSI Commons brings these efforts together through an interdisciplinary community designed to strengthen collaboration, leverage existing strengths, and increase UK’s collective impact in sport education, innovation, and research.

The University of Kentucky is known for both academic and athletic excellence, and across campus, there is a wide range of sport-related teaching, research, and partnerships. FoSI Commons brings these efforts together through an interdisciplinary community designed to strengthen collaboration, leverage existing strengths, and increase UK’s collective impact in sport education, innovation, and research.

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Community & Connection

Build relationships across campus among people who teach, study, work in, or are simply curious about sport, making it easy to find peers, collaborators, and shared interests.

Research and Innovation

Support interdisciplinary sport-related scholarship by connecting researchers, sharing opportunities, and helping form teams for projects, grants, and publications.

Events & Convening

Host conversations and experiences that deepen understanding of the sport industry and its evolving landscape.

Teaching & Student Pathways

Strengthen student opportunities through shared resources and aligned pathways across programs, such as experiential learning, internships, cross-course connections, mentoring, and career exposure.

Our values guide how we work and how we show up for one another.

Connect - Build relationships across UK’s sport teaching and research community.

Collaborate - Turn shared interests into joint learning experiences, projects, and scholarship.

Catalyze - Spark momentum and shared impact through events, partnerships, and visibility.