NCAA President Brand will speak at UD Nov. 2

Myles Brand

3:22 p.m., Oct. 5, 2005--National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) President Myles Brand will speak on "College Sports as a Catalyst for Change" during a public lecture at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 2, at Clayton Hall on the Laird Campus of the University of Delaware in Newark.

UD’s Sport Management Program is sponsoring the lecture with funding provided by the Delaware Interdisciplinary Ethics Program and the Center for Teaching Effectiveness

While Brand is on campus, he will address students in the undergraduate course on "Ethics and Issues in Sport Management."

“This is a wonderful opportunity for students, as well as the University and local community,” Matthew J. Robinson, UD associate professor of sport management, said. “Myles Brand’s position gives him a unique perspective to lead a discussion and to challenge the students to think critically about the important ethical issues facing intercollegiate athletics today. The public forum will offer him the opportunity to discuss the importance of college athletics to society as a whole. This is truly a unique and important opportunity.”

Brand assumed his duties as NCAA president in 2003. He is the fourth chief executive officer of the association.

Brand was president of Indiana University from 1994-2002 and president of the University of Oregon from 1989-94. He served as chair of the board of directors of the Association of American Universities from 1999-2000, was a director and member of the executive committee of the American Council on Education and was a director of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.

Brand has written extensively on various topics in higher education, including tenure and undergraduate education. His nationally acclaimed January 2001 speech to the National Press Club, "Academics First: Reforming Intercollegiate Athletics," focused on how the disconnect between intercollegiate athletics and education "jeopardizes the essential mission of our universities."

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