Dr. Travis Boyce, Chair of the Department of African American Studies & SJSU’s NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR), was recently elected by his FAR peers to represent the Mountain West Conference on the NCAA 1A FAR Board. The 1A FAR Board is an organization of faculty athletics representatives at NCAA Division I institutions in the Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division 1A). 1A FAR regularly supports programming at the annual meeting of the Faculty Athletics Representatives Association (FARA), and also supports the annual 1A FAR Academic Excellence Awards.