Elizabeth B. Conant

Regis College is pleased to announce that 11 faculty members across all four schools have been granted promotions or sabbatical leave.

Elizabeth Conant, an associate professor in Regis College’s sports management program, explains the significance of the NCAA’s new policy to allow student-athletes to profit off their name, image, and likeness, and what it all means for college sports.

Brockton-born exercise science major Fabyanno Furbino was having second thoughts. “He mentioned to me that he had recently been thinking about a career in nursing,” recalls his advisor, Health and Fitness Studies Associate Professor Elizabeth Conant. Fabyanno was in her first year seminar course and she recalled thinking “he was a great leader and had a very promising future…but he was disappointed because he thought it was too late. I told him ‘No way!,’ and that, for a strong student like him, applying for acceptance into the program would be tough, but definitely still possible. He was thrilled.”