Caroline Faure, EdD
Professor
Office: Reed Gym 202
Focus Areas: Sport Safety; Sport Management
Dr. Caroline “Smitty” Faure, EdD; ATC-L is a Professor in the Department of Human Performance and Sport Studies. Faure’s teaching philosophy highlights the importance of rigor, relevancy, and relationships in higher education. Experiential learning is a cornerstone of her classes. By integrating activities like the Bengal Triathlon, Faure strives to provide contextually rich instruction that extends beyond classroom walls.
Faure’s research focus has concentrated on facilitating appropriate concussion management practices in youth and high school sport programs. A separate line of research has focused on various areas of logistical management of sport. She has authored or co-authored more than 100 manuscripts and publications across numerous platforms, including scholarly journals, commercial publications, and mass media.
Faure has been the recipient of numerous awards throughout her career. She won the Kole-McGuffey Award for Outstanding Graduate Research at ISU in 2007, was honored as Idaho’s Collegiate Educator of the Year by numerous external organizations, and for her work delivering statewide sports concussion education, she received ISU’s Outstanding and Distinguished Service Awards in 2010 and 2011, respectively.