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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

Next public meeting: October 27, 2008
National Press Club
Washington, DC

NEWS ABOUT THE MEETING:
June 17, 2008

Summit on the Collegiate Athlete Experience
Jan. 2006

Faculty Summit on Intercollegiate Athletics
Oct. 2007

Prior Knight Commission press releases

PUBLISHED OP-EDS

Miami Herald
Feb. 4, 2007

Indianapolis Star
Apr. 2, 2006

COMMISSIONED RESEARCH AND POLLS

Public Opinion Poll
Dec. 2005

Public Opinion Poll
Jan. 2006

Executive Summary of Faculty Perceptions of Intercollegiate Athletics

Faculty Perceptions of Intercollegiate Athletics (Full Report)
A national survey of more than 2,000 faculty members, released October 9, 2007

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

Summit: A Summit on the Collegiate Athlete Experience

January 30, 2006
Dorothy Betts Marvin Theater
The Marvin Center
The George Washington University
800 21st Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20052

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1) Welcome by Alberto Ibarguen and GWU President Stephen Trachtenberg
Transcript: HTML. PDF. Video: Windows Media File. Quick Time.

2) Values and Choices: Issues for Athletes, including substance abuse, performance-enhancing substances, and violent behavior. Opening Remarks by Knight Commission Vice Chair Dr. Clifton R. Wharton
Transcript: HTML. PDF. Video: Windows Media File. Quick Time.

3) Presentation by Frank Uryasz, President, The National Center for Drug Free Sport
Transcript: HTML. PDF. Video: Windows Media File. Quick Time.

4) Opening Remarks by Kareem McKenzie, former football athlete, Pennsylvania State University and current player for the NY Giants
Transcript: HTML. PDF. Video: Windows Media File. Quick Time.

5) Discussion among Knight Commission and panelists about drug-testing and performance-enhancing substances with Frank Uryasz and Kareem McKenzie
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6) Presentation by Joanne Belknap, Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, University of Colorado
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7) Opening Remarks Don McPherson, Executive Director, Sports Leadership Institute, Adelphi University
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8) Opening Remarks by Jemalle Cornelius, current football athlete, University of Florida
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9) Discussion among Knight Commission and panelists about behavioral issues
Transcript: HTML. PDF. Video: Windows Media File. Quick Time.

10) Recruiting: Ethics and athlete welfare during the recruiting process. Remarks by Gerald Turner
Transcript: HTML. PDF. Video: Windows Media File. Quick Time.

11) Opening remarks by Myron Rolle, graduate of The Hun School, Princeton, NJ and prospective football athlete enrolled at Florida State University
Transcript: HTML. PDF. Video: Windows Media File. Quick Time.

12) Opening remarks by Ruth Riley, former basketball athlete, University of Notre Dame, and current player for the WNBA’s Detroit Shock
Transcript: HTML. PDF. Video: Windows Media File. Quick Time.

13) Opening remarks by Scottie Reynolds, prospective basketball athlete, Herndon High School
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14) Opening remarks by Joe Wootten, head boys’ basketball coach, Bishop O’Connell High School, Arlington, VA
Transcript: HTML. PDF. Video: Windows Media File. Quick Time.

15) Opening remarks by Dan Wetzel, sports journalist, Yahoo.com, and author, Glory Road
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16) Opening remarks by Peter Roby, director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society
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17) Discussion among Knight Commission members and panelists regarding recruiting
Transcript: HTML. PDF. Video: Windows Media File. Quick Time.

18) "Life On and Off the Field", moderated by Len Elmore
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