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Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics Reacts to NCAA Task Force Report Published Today

Contact: Stacey Finkel, Widmeyer Communications 202.667.0901 Welch Suggs, Knight Commission 404.771.7753 October 30, 2006 The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics commends the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the 50 current and former presidents and higher education leaders who served on the NCAA Presidential Task Force on the Future of Division I Intercollegiate Athletics. The report…

Knight Commission responds to NCAA task force report

The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics commends the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the 50 current and former presidents and higher education leaders who served on the NCAA Presidential Task Force on the Future of Division I Intercollegiate Athletics. The report published today by the task force builds on the principles emphasized by the Knight…

Knight Commission Announces Addition

WASHINGTON—Following a working meeting here, the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics announced that John J. DeGioia has joined the Commission. President of Georgetown for the past five years, DeGioia has been an administrator and professor at the Washington, D.C., institution since his graduation in 1979. At its meeting, the Knight Commission reviewed a final draft…

Knight Commission Announces New Co-Chairmen

Longtime members assume leadership WASHINGTON — The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics named R. Gerald Turner and Clifton R. Wharton Jr. co-chairmen yesterday. Wharton was a member of the Commission at its founding in 1989 and Turner joined in 1991.  Both have been leaders in the effort to ensure that college athletics programs are conducted…

Keep ‘Pro’ out of College Sports

“Keep ‘pro’ out of college sports,” Indianapolis Star, Apr. 2, 2006. March Madness is about to reach its finale. Without a doubt, the tournament in America’s favorite amateur sports event. CBS pays the NCAA roughly half a billion dollars a year for the right to broadcast the tournament, and it knows what it needs for…

Knight Commission Poll Finds Americans Deeply Concerned About College Sports

The focus of the summit was academic reform through the eyes of students and athletes. What standards should a college adopt to determine when commercialism in funding research or athletics is too much? Is it only dollars that matters in the search for knowledge? Intercollegiate athletics as a subset of academe also has values. The summit also investigated behavioral issues relating to students and athletes.

Poll: Americans are concerned about college sports

Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics Public Opinion Poll Executive Summary January 2006 Americans are passionate about college sports. They believe athletes ought to be “normal” college students, facing the same standards in admissions and challenges in the classroom, according to a poll conducted last month for the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. Enthusiasm about college…

Quoting the Summit’s participants

Kareem McKenzie, Pennsylvania State U. graduate and current player, New York Giants (On the message he tries to give to high school players, particularly regarding steroid use) “It takes hard work. There are shortcuts. Don’t be stupid and don’t put yourself in a situation where you can harm yourself.” “None of that stuff matters now—how…

Participants in the Knight Commission’s Summit on the Collegiate Athlete Experience

Knight Commission Summit participants Joanne Belknap, Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, University of Colorado Jemalle Cornelius, current student and football player, University of Florida Peter Roby, Director, Center for the Study of Sport in Society, Northeastern University Don McPherson, Executive Director, Sports Leadership Institute, Adelphi University Mike Aguirre, former Arizona State U. student and…