Could the Collective Association Provide an Alternative to Employment Status for Student-Athletes? Five Tips for Universities

By Michael E. Bonner and Brett P. Owens, of Fisher Phillips An alternate solution to the ever-increasing push to make collegiate student-athletes employees may finally be on the horizon. The lack of uniformity in state name, image, and likeness (NIL) laws has created an uneven playing field – and caused some of the largest donor-led collectives to form the Collective Association, which could be the first step in creating a uniform set of rules governing student-athlete compensation for univ