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FYI: March for Science! April 22, 2017
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If you did, thank you for “Marching for Science” on April 22, 2017.
2017 Annual Meeting Report
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The 2017 (14th) Annual Meeting of the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA) was held from Friday, February 17, through Sunday afternoon, February 19, 2017, at Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC. The meeting was graciously and well hosted by WFU Professor of Romance Languages, and long-term COIA Steering Committee member, Jane Albrecht. Our efforts were guided by consultant Jean Frankel at the meeting. We owe her a deep debt of gratitude for her productive efforts on our behalf.
The Meeting report was compiled in two separate documents, one for each day of the meeting:
The report for the Saturday, February 18, 2017, sessions is HERE.
The report for the Sunday, February 19, 2017, sessions is HERE.
MISSION and VISION STATEMENTS
At the meeting, a new mission statement was written and approved for the coalition:
“To promote academic excellence, integrity and student well-being in intercollegiate athletics.”
The meeting also produced a vision statement for the coalition moving forward:
“Faculty mobilizing faculty to enhance the student-athlete experience.”
Core Values and Beliefs
As developed by those attending the annual meeting, February, 2017:
- Student Athletes are Students First
- Academic Integrity
- Scholarship and Critical inquiry
- Diversity and Inclusiveness
- Financial Responsibility and Sustainability of Intercollegiate Athletics
- Transparency and Open Dialogue
- Protection of Student health and Safety
ELECTIONS
Following the passage of the bylaws’ revision, elections are now scheduled to fill the Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary and five remaining Steering Committee positions.
We will soon be asking for a vote on the nominations for the following EIGHT Steering Committee positions for COIA, as designated in our bylaws:
| STEERING COMMITTEE (SC) POSITION | Term Expires | |
| Chair | 2020 | |
| Vice Chair | 2020 | |
| Secretary | 2019 | |
| Committee Heads (3): | ||
| Administration & Communication | 2018 | |
| Academic Integrity | 2019 | |
| Student-Athlete Welfare | 2020 | |
| At-Large SC Member | 2018 | |
| At-Large SC Member | 2019 | |
| Immediate Past Chair* | 2020 |
* The Immediate past chair position will be filled by Outgoing Chair Mike Bowen who has agreed to serve, his term expiring 2020.
ACTION ITEMS
Besides electing our Steering Committee, here is a table of the actions decided upon at the annual meeting for over the summer and beyond:
| DATE | ACTION |
| By April 15, 2017 | Senate Presidents and COIA representatives receive for review and comment a few minor changes to the approved, amended bylaws; no substantive changes are being considered at this time. |
| By May 25, 2017 | Those interested in serving on the COIA Steering Committee, please submit a short bio (limit: one page), or, a link to your faculty web page, to Larry Gramling |
| By June 15, 2017 | Deadline for comments from the membership on the proposed minor changes to the bylaws. |
| By June 15, 2017 | Slate of nominated steering committee members released to members for a vote. |
| On July 15, 2017 | Close of vote on steering committee members. Results announced to the membership on July 17, 2017. (Still pending) |
| On July 15, 2017 | Final suggested changes to the bylaws sent to all members for a vote. (Still pending) |
| On November 15, 2017 | Close of vote on amendments to by-laws. Results released to membership |
Welcome
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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.
Sixty-two of the FBS schools that have faculty senates are 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.
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 NotesNotes from the 2016 Annual Meeting have been compiled and can be downloaded HERE. |
COIA 2015 Annual Report from the Steering CommitteeThe 2015 Annual report has been released and can be downloaded HERE. |
COIA statement on the NCAA reorganization planCOIA has released a statement on the NCAA’s reorganization plan. HERE. |
Excerpts from the 1929 Carnegie Foundation ReportFollowing 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 PresidentsCOIA releases Letter for Presidents HERE. |
COIA Welcomes New MembersRice University and the University of Akron are the newest members of COIA. An updated membership listing is available as a downloadable spreadsheet HERE. |
COIA ConcernsA .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 VoteCOIA has released a statement on the override vote request. HERE. |
COIA Concussion SurveyThe 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 |
INCREASING FACULTY ENGAGEMENT IN A DEREGULATED ATHLETICS CONTEXT2013 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. |
New COIA Members: Nevada-Las Vegas and U Mass-AmherstCOIA 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 SportMost 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 Case Studies in Athletic-Academic Integration: A Closer Look at Schools that Implement COIA’s Best Practices The full issue of Journal of Intercollegiate Sport is available here |
