News Release
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March 11, 2005
Kustra Appointed To NCAA Task
Force On The Future Of Intercollegiate Athletics
Boise State President Bob Kustra has been appointed to
the Presidential Task Force on the Future of Intercollegiate Athletics by
NCAA President Myles Brand. The task force will explore the alignment of
academics and athletics in such areas as fiscal responsibility,
commercialism, organizational structure and student-athlete well-being.
Brand announced the task force’s creation but not the makeup of college and
university presidents and chancellors in January and appointed University of
Arizona President Peter Likins as the chair. The task force is similar in
its role to a presidential group that studied and made recommendations
leading to the academic reform package.
“I feel Boise State is the model of a university that has achieved athletic
success while not compromising its academic mission,” Kustra said. “I look
forward to providing a perspective that can balance the interests of
athletics and academics in American colleges and universities.”
The task force is expected to complete its work in 18 to 24 months with the
first meeting scheduled after spring commencements on June 10-11 in Tucson,
Ariz. The task force has four working groups: 1) implications of academic
values and standards; 2) fiscal responsibility; 3) presidential leadership
of internal and external constituencies; and 4) student-athlete well-being.
“This is the next step in a systematic process of integration athletics into
the academic mission of colleges and universities,” said Brand in his task
force announcement. “I am delighted that a group of senior leaders from a
broad spectrum of institutions have recognized the value of athletics to
higher education and the need to address a variety of challenges for the
future.”
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Media Contact: Frank Zang, University Communications, (208) 426-5391,
frankzang@boisestate.edu
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Last reviewed on Thursday, December 22, 2005