October 2011 Knight Commission Meeting Photos
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Most Ohio Schools Depend on Student Fees, Other Public Help for Division I Intercollegiate Sports
The Cleveland Plain Dealer recently reported on the financial status of college sports in the state of Ohio and found that college sports would be unsustainable in their current form at just about every public university in Ohio without money from students, taxpayers or other non-athletic school sources. With the exception of Ohio State University,…
Knight Commission to Meet with NCAA President on Oct. 24 in Washington, D.C.
Policy changes being considered by the NCAA and updated financial data will frame the reform-focused discussion among higher education leaders WHO: The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, chaired by William E. “Brit” Kirwan, Chancellor, University System of Maryland, and R. Gerald Turner, President, Southern Methodist University, will be joined by Mark Emmert, president, NCAA; Robert…
Best Practices for Academic Integrity in Athletics Often Not Used
The Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA) recently announced the results of a national survey about the extent that major colleges are implementing best practices to integrate athletics into the educational mission of universities. The best practices were developed by COIA as a result of concerns about the impact that problems in college sports are impacting…
Do College Sports Need to Be Saved?
Minnesota Public Radio published an interview about the current status of college sports with author Taylor Branch and Knight Commission executive director Amy Perko. The discussion focused on how big money is having a greater impact on big-time college sports, from schools changing conferences to a renewed call to pay student athletes. The context of…
TV Revenue Fueling Huge Explosions in Football Coaching Salaries
The Charleston Post & Courier reported on the continuing increase in the compensation of major college football coaches. From 1986 to 2010, the increase in pay for head football coaches far outpaced the increase in salaries for professors and presidents at major college football schools. Over the past 25 years, professors’ salaries at major college…
The Big-Time Phoniness of Big-Time College Sports
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an editorial about the recent scandals plaguing college sports. The editorial referenced the recommendations in the 2010 Knight Commission report, Restoring the Balance, as a basis for the paper’s own perspective. The editorial stated: “Last summer the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics — a largely powerless think-tank made up of…
Bill Friday Surveys the State of College Sports
Recently, the Independent Weekly (Raleigh-Durham, NC) interviewed William Friday, the founding co-chairman of the Knight Commission and president emeritus of the University of North Carolina System. Friday was asked for his perspective on the state of college sports today. A portion of the interview follows: INDEPENDENT WEEKLY: You helped found the Knight Commission in 1989…
Creed Black – 1925-2011
Tribute from William C. Friday, Founding Co-Chairman of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics: “Creed Black was one of those newspaper men who profoundly believed that a free and productive press was the essential and primary force to sustain our democracy. As a civic and foundation leader, he kept his experienced eye on the needy…
Morals, Values Sacrificed in University Settings
Catholicsports.net published a commentary from Billy Reed relating to concerns about how recent scandals in college sports demonstrate that morals and values are being sacrificed to support winning athletic teams. Below is an excerpt of Reed’s comments: “In firing football coach Butch Davis, North Carolina chancellor Holden Thorp said he had “lost confidence in our…