The USA Today reported on the NCAA’s intent to investigate “the way in which Division I is organized for the purposes of making decisions.” According to the paper, NCAA President Mark Emmert will appoint a working group to look at the makeup of the board of directors and ensure that Division I non-football schools and…
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican published an article about a new rule being considered by the NCAA that would impact the budget of college athletics departments. The new rule would allow student-athletes to receive an additional $2,000 expense stipend up to the full cost-of-attendance. The rule, adopted by the NCAA Board in October, was suspended when…
The Associated Press reported on an address by the U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at the 2012 NCAA convention. Duncan urged the nation’s major institutions to put some of the revenue earned from football and men’s basketball championships into an education fund. Duncan praised recent policies adopted by the association membership, including tougher academic…
January 13, 2012 Knight Commission Executive Director Amy Perko visits KU The University Community Forum presents “A Dialogue on Intercollegiate Athletics in Higher Education” with Knight Commission Executive Director Amy Perko on Tuesday, Jan. 24. Perko, a former University of Kansas associate athletics director, was named Knight Commission executive director in 2005. The Knight Commission…
An article by Boston Globe columnist Derrick Jackson questioned the decisions made in higher education institutions with respect to their athletic departments. Jackson pointed to recent child sexual abuse allegations, NCAA rules-breaking of cash payments to college football players and recruiting violations, and other major scandals while the vast amounts of money generated by major…
The Fayetteville Observer recently published an article featuring the career of Amy Perko, executive director of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. Perko will be receiving a Silver Anniversary Award from the NCAA in January. As part of the article, the Observer included discussion about the past, current, and future role of the Knight Commission. …
R. Gerald Turner, Knight Commission Co-Chairman and President, Southern Methodist University – October 27, 2011 “We commend the NCAA for taking meaningful steps toward college sports reform today,” said Knight Commission co-chairman R. Gerald Turner, president of Southern Methodist University. “We are pleased to see proposals the Commission has championed for many years be embraced…
WASHINGTON—The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics announced the results of a competitive grants program, “Shaping policy and practice in intercollegiate athletics for the benefit of students and institutions.” The Commission received 38 applications from researchers and organizations throughout the country and selected six for funding. Details on the selected projects are below. Researchers will present…
The Washington Post reported on a discussion by NCAA President Mark Emmert before the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. The Post stated Emmert “will push for enacting the new standards, which were tentatively agreed upon in August, as early as next season’s NCAA basketball tournaments and that they be extended to bowl game participation. Had…
Amid a growing sense of crisis in college sports, the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics heard evidence that the challenges colleges face are beyond the scope of current reform efforts. The Commission applauded the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s recent progress, and urged the speedy enactment of many of its proposed reforms. At the same time, the Commission said these steps alone would not ensure the integrity of sports in higher education, and emphasized the underlying drivers of conference realignment and other accelerating trends. Specifically, the Commission noted the influx in coming years of almost $14 billion in renegotiated television contracts, primarily for regular-season football, to the five richest conferences. The Commission will pursue transparency and accountability measures to ensure that these funds are used to further institutions’ educational missions and not simply to increase athletic expenditures. The Commission also will assess the complicated relationships among the NCAA, the Bowl Championship Series, Division I conferences, and their member institutions. In particular, the Commission will examine the impact of changing conferences primarily to increase revenue for football, and the impact such changes have on other sports. The Commission also announced six grants totaling $100,000 to independent scholars to study policy issues in intercollegiate athletics, with results of their studies to be released in October 2012.