National Meeting – 2021

Posted by on January 14, 2021 Comments Off on National Meeting – 2021

Click on the Zoom link below to register for the COIA 2021 National Meeting! Space is limited so sign up today!

Zoom link:
https://uasystem.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcod–trTosEtbh_1Dz6FtECvDx8pD4z0Y1

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Welcome

Posted by on June 8, 2016 Comments Off on Welcome

The Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA; the Coalition) is an alliance of faculty senates from NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools. 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. COIA works with university faculties, administrations, trustee boards, and national associations concerned with higher education, to implement these strategies and proposals.


Currently, FBS schools that have faculty senates are eligible to be members of COIA. During the past several years, COIA has produced a number of white papers and other documents that lay out recommendations for reform. These recommendations offer best practices that can be used by schools to examine their own policies and practices with regard to intercollegiate athletics. Many of these recommendations have also been discussed with the NCAA as possible action items.

The faculty governance body of any NCAA FBS school can be a member of COIA (see How to Join COIA). We are an ad hoc group and operate without staff or budget. Our direction is determined by our member senates, and we warmly welcome any NCAA Division IA senate that votes to join the COIA on the basis of a general agreement with the principles laid out in our policy papers and reports.

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Student-Athletes as Students First

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The Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA) is an alliance of faculty senates and councils from public and private universities from NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools. Our mission is to provide a national faculty voice on intercollegiate sports issues. As faculty, we are committed to promoting academic excellence, integrity, and health and safety of all of our student-athletes across our great universities. Our core values are centered on Student-Athletes as Students First, and we support the NCAA programs that promote our core values. But, we are strongly opposed to compensation for student-athletes, and we think that entertaining ideas such as payment for their name, image, and likeness (NIL) will serve to greatly erode the concept of amateur athletics at the college level. Such compensation will create unfair advantages among schools that cannot be mitigated, and will lead to improper recruiting and transfer inducements that cannot be prevented. It is also likely that student-athletes will be unfairly burdened with complex and difficult choices related to prioritizing financial gain over commitment to academic achievement. We believe that exploring compromises that would support NIL payments will eventually lead to direct payments to players for their athletic performance. We urge the NCAA to support Student-Athletes as Students First and not adopt a system for compensating student athletes for their name, image and likeness.

2020 COIA Meeting Feb 14-16

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Agenda: http://www.thecoia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Agenda-for-Feb-14-16-2020-COIA-meeting.pdf

Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics

Annual Meeting 2020, Louisiana State University

February 14-16, 2020

Meeting Registration: lsufoundation.org/coia

Attendees should fly into Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (BTR).  https://www.flybtr.com/

The airport is 10 miles (about a 15 min drive without traffic) to the Cook Hotel which is situated on the LSU campus.

Hotel Information

The Cook Hotel and Conference Center at LSU, 3848 West Lakeshore Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808

The cutoff date for booking rooms for the reserved block is Jan. 14, 2020. 

Group Stay Rates: February 14, 2020 to February 16, 2020

  • Standard King: $125/night
  • Standard Double: $125/night
  • King Suite: $145/night

To reserve, call: 225-383-COOK (2665) and use group name (Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics) for rates.  Online codes 200214COAL. 

Hotel designated check-in time is 3:00pm, and check-out time is 11am. Early arrivals and late departures can only be honored based on availability.

Guest Amenities:

  • Complimentary hot breakfast buffet available 6:00 – 9:30 AM daily
  • 24-Hour Front Desk concierge service including free fax services, wake-up calls, and arranging taxi services
  • Complimentary High-Speed Wired and Wireless Internet Access
  • 200+ all-digital HDTV Channels including movies, sports and entertainment, and children’s programming
  • LSU Alumni Gift Shop open 6 days a week with official LSU merchandise, boutique fashions, accessories, and gifts for Men, Women, & Children
  • 24-hour sundries shop offering travel necessities, snacks, beer & wine, and take-away sandwiches, wraps and frozen meals
  • Complimentary newspapers
  • Original artwork highlights local and internationally known artists
  • Dry cleaning service (partner service)
  • Complimentary self-parking
  • Daily housekeeping w/light touch service upon request
  • Accessibility rooms (roll-in showers, visual strobes for hearing impaired, etc.)
  • Exhilarating campus and lake views
  • Entirely non-smoking

What’s New in COIA?

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Welcome Texas State University!

At their April, 2017 meeting, the Texas State University Faculty Senate has, by majority vote, agreed to join the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics.  TXST Faculty Senate President Michel Conroy will also serve as the school’s COIA representative.

COIA 2016 Annual Meeting Notes

Notes from the 2016 Annual Meeting have been compiled and can be downloaded HERE.

COIA 2015 Annual Report from the Steering Committee

The 2015 Annual report has been released and can be downloaded HERE.

COIA statement on the NCAA reorganization plan

COIA has released a statement on the NCAA’s reorganization plan. HERE.

Excerpts from the 1929 Carnegie Foundation Report

Following the controversial NCAA restructuring approved August 7, 2014, we thought it would be interesting to look at an extremely detailed, analytical report on the state of intercollegiate athletics in 1929.  Looking at the document, it would indeed seem that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

COIA Steering Committee member Gary Engstrand (University of Minnesota) put together the following excerpts from that report for us.  His introduction follows:

“American College Athletics by Howard Savage, Bulletin Number Twenty-Three of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, was published in 1929 following an extensive study of college athletic programs across the United States.  Five Foundation staff members visited 130 institutions in the late 1920s; the final report was over 300 pages plus appendices.  The excerpts provided here (with the permission of the Carnegie Foundation) are intended to highlight the similarities between the situation in college athletics in the 1920s and college athletics today, nearly 100 years later.” DOWNLOAD THE EXCERPTS HERE.

Letter for Presidents

COIA releases Letter for Presidents HERE.

COIA Welcomes New Members

Rice University and the University of Akron are the newest members of COIA. An updated membership listing is available as a downloadable spreadsheet HERE.

COIA Concerns

A .pdf version of the recent letter sent to NCAA Executive Committee President Lu K. Anna Simon, NCAA D1 Board President Nathan Hatch, and NCAA President Mark Emmert voicing our concerns about the latest NCAA reorganization proposal can be found HERE.

COIA statement on the NCAA Division I Restructuring Override Vote

COIA has released a statement on the override vote request: HERE.

COIA’s suggested NCAA Mission statement: HERE.

COIA Concussion Survey

The report on the recent COIA Concussion Survey, done in cooperation with Brian Hainline, the NCAA’s Chief Medical Officer has been released and is available HERE.

Principles and Proposals Concerning NCAA Division 1 Restructuring

COIA Position Paper – October 2013

INCREASING FACULTY ENGAGEMENT IN A DEREGULATED ATHLETICS CONTEXT

2013 COIA Best Practices Report

The 2013 National COIA Meeting was devoted to preparing a constructive set of best practices, or a “tool-kit,” specifically designed to increase faculty engagement in the governance of intercollegiate athletics in the context of the new NCAA reform initiatives.  As the only national organization representing elected faculty governance bodies, COIA is uniquely positioned to both develop such a tool kit and then help roll it out at our universities for implementation.  The NCAA leadership has actively participated in this project.  Please click here to read the full draft statement.

Also see:
Preparing for NCAA Partial Deregulation of Intercollegiate Athletics Ensuring a Faculty Role in a New Regulatory Structure.  Overview of Plenary and Break-Out Group Sessions. COIA National Meeting, February 2-3, 2013.

New COIA Members: Nevada-Las Vegas and U Mass-Amherst

COIA is pleased to announce that, by votes of their respective faculty governance bodies, the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst have become the 60th and 61st members of our coalition. A special thanks to Nancy Lough (Professor of Educational Psychology & Higher Education at UNLV and new COIA rep) and Ernest May (Professor of Music and Secretary of the U Mass-Amherst Faculty Senate) for their leadership in making this happen. COIA welcomes its newest members.

COIA/John Curley Center for Sports Journalism articles published in Journal of Intercollegiate Sport

Most universities with big-time sports programs have not used all the tools at their disposal to protect academic integrity and improve transparency and accountability of intercollegiate athletics on their campuses, according to a national survey conducted by the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA) and researchers at Penn State. Read more about the COIA/Curley Center survey and case studies of six high-scoring institutions…

Or download the full articles in the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport at the links below:

Integration of Athletics and Academics: Survey of Practices at FBS Schools
By John S. Nichols, Thomas F. Corrigan, & Marie Hardin

Case Studies in Athletic-Academic Integration: A Closer Look at Schools that Implement COIA’s Best Practices
By Thomas F. Corrigan, Marie Hardin, & John S. Nichols

The full issue of Journal of Intercollegiate Sport is available here