UF Report on SEC Faculty Governance Conference, May 2003

• SEC faculty leaders urge reform of intercollegiate athletics, News from Vanderbilt, May 2, 2003 (report on the conference)
• Resolutions adopted at the May 2 Meeting
• Agenda (pdf)
  • Conference Participants (pdf)
  • Breakout Sessions (pdf)
• SEC Governance and Athletics University Information Sheets (all in pdf)
  • University of Alabama
  • University of Arkansas
  • Auburn University
  • University of Florida
  • University of Georgia
  • University of Kentucky
  • Louisiana State University
  • University of Mississippi
  • University of South Carolina
  • University of Tennessee
  • Vanderbilt University
• SEC Scholarships 2001-2002 and SEC Staff in Student-Athlete Support 2001
• Background materials on governance
  • Source for Challenges for Governance: a National Report and the survey on which it was based at the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis
  • Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities, adopted by the Council of the AAUP in October 1966, endorsed by the Fifty-Third Annual Meeting in April 1967, revised by the Council of the AAUP in April 1990.
• Background materials related to athletics
  • Charter for the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA), supplied by Bob Eno at the May 1-2, 2003 conference
  • Initial COAI Discussion Draft 03/15/03, distributed by Bob Eno
  • NCAA Academic Standards 2002-2003
  • NCAA Academic Reform - Executive Summary, 04/11/03
  • NCAA Division I Management Council Working Group Incentives/Disincentives Memorandum, 03/11/03, Todd Turner
  • Penn State University Guidelines
    1. Institutional Governance and Intercollegiate Athletics, draft, George Bugyi, Executive Secretary, University Faculty Senate, PSU, and Scott Kretchmar, Faculty Athletics Representative, as presented at May 1-2, 2003 conference.
    2. NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR), draft, Scott Kretchmar, Faculty Athletics Representative, as presented at May 1-2, 2003 conference.
  • The Faculty Role in the Reform of Intercollegiate Athletics, approved for publication by the AAUP's Committee on Teaching, Research, and Publication in October 2002.
  • Statement on Intecollegiate Athletics, adopted by the Council of the AAUP in June 1991.
  • NCAA Faculty Athletics Representatives Handbook, June 1991, posted by the Faculty Athletics Representatives Association, and FAR Handbook in pdf as posted by NCAA
  • Statement of Big Ten Faculty Governance Leaders on NCAA Reforms (November 22, 2002, on University of Iowa Faculty Senate site)
• News Releases provided as background information
  • News Release on Intercollegiate Athletics Reform by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB)
  • Myles Brand: Speech to the National Press Club, March 4, 2003
  • Incentives/disincentives package taking shape, Gary T. Brown, NCAA News -- February 3, 2003
  • Sports as the University's `Front Porch'? The Public is Skeptical, Welch Suggs, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2, 2003