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COMMISSION REPORTS

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Keeping Faith with the Student Athlete
The Knight Commission's Groundbreaking Report

A Call to Action
A Call to Action: Reconnecting College Sports and Higher Education

COMMISSION MEETINGS

PUBLISHED OP-EDS

Miami Herald
Feb. 4, 2007

Indianapolis Star
Apr. 2, 2006

COMMISSIONED RESEARCH AND POLLS

WHITE PAPERS

Athletics Recruiting and Academic Values: Enhancing Transparency, Spreading Risk and Improving Practice
University of Georgia Institute for Higher Education

Challenging the Myth
A Review of the Links Among College Athletic Success, Student Quality and Donations by Robert H. Frank

Executive Summary Division I-A Postseason History and Status

Division I-A Postseason History and Status
by John Sandbrook

MEMBERS

Co-Chairs

William English Kirwan
chancellor, University System of Maryland

R. Gerald Turner
president, Southern Methodist University

Chairman Emeritus

Thomas K. Hearn Jr.
president emeritus, Wake Forest University

Members

Val Ackerman
president, USA Basketball

Michael F. Adams
president, University of Georgia

William W. Asbury
Vice President Emeritus for Student Affairs, Pennsylvania State University

Henry S. Bienen
president, Northwestern University

Nick Buoniconti
spokesman, Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis

Hodding Carter III
University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Carol A. Cartwright
interim president, Kent State University

Anita L. DeFrantz
president, Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles

John J. DeGioia
president, Georgetown University

Leonard J. Elmore
ESPN analyst and senior counsel, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP

Elson S. Floyd
president, University of Missouri System

Janet Hill
vice president, Alexander & Associates Inc.

Sarah Lowe
Corporate Legal Assistant at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Andrea Fischer Newman
senior vice president-government affairs, Northwest Airlines

Jerry I. Porras
professor emeritus, Stanford University

Sonja Steptoe
Client Development Manager at O’Melveny & Myers LLP

Clifton R. Wharton Jr.
former chairman and CEO, TIAA-CREF

Judy Woodruff
broadcast journalist

Charles E. Young
President Emeritus, University of Florida and Chancellor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles

Chris Zorich
Chairman of The Christopher Zorich Foundation

Member, Ex-Officio

Alberto Ibargüen
president and CEO, Knight Foundation

Founding Co-Chairs

Rev. Theodore A. Hesburgh, C.S.C.
president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, founding co-chair, 1989-2003

William C. Friday
president emeritus, University of North Carolina, founding co-chair, 1989-2005

Staff

Amy P. Perko
executive director

A Call to Action: Appendix D: Acknowledgments

A Call to Action: Reconnecting College Sports and Higher Education

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Appendix D: Acknowledgments

The Commission acknowledges the many individuals and organizations whose support of our work made this report possible.

First we wish to express our profound gratitude to the Board of Trustees of Knight Foundation for their long and steady commitment to creating a new climate for intercollegiate athletics. College sports and higher education both have benefited significantly from the Foundation's decade-long interest.

Hodding Carter III, current Knight Foundation president, has lent invaluable perspective and energy to the reconvened Commission. His predecessor, Creed Black, has been a driving force throughout the Commission's life. His vision and determination have sustained this effort.

It is an understatement to say that this report and the many hearings that preceded it would have been impossible without the tireless, dedicated and thoughtful guidance of the Commission's executive director, Maureen Devlin. She has been our shepherd, patient but persistent goad, and strong right hand.

Larry Meyer was an enormous help with all our communications needs. Susan Gomez flawlessly handled the Commission's meeting arrangements and logistics, and Nada Elia provided important research assistance and administrative support.

John Underwood and James Harvey contributed to the drafting and editing of this document. The report was designed by Jacques Auger Design Associates and printed by Haff-Daugherty Graphics.

Finally, we wish to extend our thanks to the many men and women - university presidents, faculty, conference commissioners, athletics directors, coaches, athletes, authors, professional sports executives, television officials, NCAA representatives, leaders of national higher education associations, and others - who took the time to share their thoughts with us. Their participation was the absolutely essential foundation of all our deliberations.