NCAA President to Discuss Athletics and Academics at NC State’s Millennium Seminar

Dr. Myles Brand, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), will speak at North Carolina State University’s Millennium Seminar Series with a presentation to students, faculty, staff and the public at 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 13, in Stewart Theatre. He will share his insight into the difficult tension between intercollegiate athletics and academic life, and his organization’s efforts to rebalance these often-conflicting interests.

Since assuming the presidency of the NCAA in 2002, Brand has exerted pressure on colleges and universities to reform policies and procedures to encourage academic achievement by student-athletes. He has also decried the “arms race” among upper echelon schools as one of the chief challenges to the success of the NCAA. Brand’s 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.”

From 1994 through 2002, Brand was president of Indiana University, an eight-campus institution of higher education with nearly 100,000 students, 17,000 employees and a budget of $3.4 billion. Brand also served as president at the University of Oregon from 1989 to 1994.

Brand’s other administrative posts include serving as provost and vice-president for academic affairs at Ohio State University from 1986-89; coordinating dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arizona from1985-86; and dean of the faculty of social and behavioral sciences at the University of Arizona from 1983-86. He began his career in the department of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh in 1967.

Brand earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1964, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Rochester in 1967.

For more information, visit the Web at www.ncsu.edu/millenniumseminars.

Note to media: A satellite pool feed of the seminar will be available through UNC-TV. Satellite coordinates will be provided in a media advisory to be distributed a few days prior to the seminar.