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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

Sarah Lowe

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Sarah Lowe graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Florida in May 2006.  She also excelled in athletics as a member of the women’s basketball team for four years.  She earned a bachelor of arts in political science and Spanish with a minor in criminology. 

Following her graduation, Lowe received a Fulbright Scholarship to Costa Rica, where she studied the emergence of a grassroots social movement against the ratification and implementation of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR).

As a member of the women’s basketball team, Lowe served as team captain for three seasons.  She received numerous awards for her academic and athletics excellence including the university’s Outstanding Leadership Award (2006) and the Tracy Caulkins Award, the Woody Hayes 2006 National Scholar Athlete of the Year (Women), the Arthur Ashe, Jr. 2006 Female Sports Scholar of the Year, and the SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2005-2006).  She was also named to the University of Florida’s Hall of Fame in 2006.

A Rhodes Scholarship finalist in 2005 and 2007, Lowe is an NCAA post-graduate scholarship recipient.

Lowe’s community service at the University of Florida earned her an SEC Good Works Team award in 2004, 2005, and 2006. After graduation, she returned to her home state of Pennsylvania and worked with inner city girls through Katie at the Bat, a nonprofit using sports as a vehicle to empower young women. She currently serves as Development Coordinator for an emerging nonprofit, IBecome, which partners with local community leaders to equip orphaned and vulnerable children to be agents of change in their communities.

A native of Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, Lowe currently works as a corporate legal assistant at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Los Angeles.