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TU HOSTS COALITION ON INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS THIS WEEKEND
1/20/2012 12:00:00 AM | Tulsa Hurricane
Jan. 20, 2012
Tulsa, Oklahoma - The University of Tulsa will host the national meeting of the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics this weekend. COIA is an alliance of faculty senates from NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools.
A welcome reception gets the three-day event underway on Friday night. A full day of speakers and discussion takes place on Saturday, while the event closes on Sunday morning with one final session.
Topics of discussion will include: future of the collegiate model, amateurism and pay for play; subsidies and financial sustainability of athletics; lessons learned from Penn State; challenges of smaller universities and conferences; academic misconduct in intercollegiate athletics, and the status of the NCAA reform agenda.
COIA's mission is to provide a national faculty voice on intercollegiate sports issues. Areas of concern include academic integrity and quality, student-athlete welfare, campus governance of intercollegiate athletics, commercialization and fiscal responsibility. The Coalition is committed to the development of effective strategies and proposals for significant, long-term reform in college athletics.
Fifty-eight of the 115 FBS schools that have faculty senates are members of COIA.
Speakers include: Steadman Upham, University of Tulsa President and member of the NCAA Division I Board; George Dohrman, Sports Illustrated writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for uncovering academic fraud in college sports; John Walda, President and CEO of the National Association of College and University Business Officers; Brad Wolverton, senior editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education; Eddie Pells, national sports writer for The Associated Press; Gerald Gurney, immediate Past President of N4A and Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oklahoma; Britton Banowsky, C-USA commissioner and chair of the NCAA infractions committee; Amy Perko, executive director of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics; Jennifer Strawley, NCAA Director of Academic and Membership Affairs; Diane Dickman, NCAA Managing Director of Academic and Membership Affairs; Allen Sack, a professor of management at the University of New Haven and president of the Drake Group; and, University of Tulsa Head Football Coach Bill Blankenship.
