Faculty Perceptions of Intercollegiate Athletics Survey
Faculty Perceptions of Intercollegiate Athletics Survey
A National Study of Faculty at NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision Institutions
Prepared for the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
By Dr. Janet H. Lawrence, Lori A. Hendricks, Molly C. Ott
The University of Michigan Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education
October 15, 2007
In its 1991 and 2001 reports, the Knight Commission called on faculty to join other members of the academic community and act together to restore the balance of athletics and academics on campus. In 2006, members of faculty reform groups approached the Knight Commission to propose a summit on the role of faculty in maintaining a healthy relationship between academics and athletics on campus. The commission agreed to host such a summit. To lay the groundwork for discussions at the summit, the Knight Commission authorized a national survey of faculty members at NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision universities.
The main goal of the Faculty Perceptions of Intercollegiate Athletics Survey (Faculty Survey) is to examine professors’ beliefs about and satisfaction with intercollegiate athletics. The investigation also identifies faculty members’ primary concerns about intercollegiate athletics and gathers preliminary data on whether they would join campus-based initiatives aimed at ameliorating these concerns. Further, the survey assesses whether professors think such activities would lead to meaningful change on their campus.
The first part of this Report provides background information on the development and administration of the Faculty Survey. The second part explains the data analyses and highlights key findings.
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