Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 13, 2004|Volume 32, Number 18

Yale's NCAA self-study is
available to community online

For the past year, Yale has been reviewing its athletics program as part of the accreditation process for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

The self-study is now complete, and a report is available for review by the Yale community and the general public at www.yale.edu/ncaa-certification/.

The NCAA is a voluntary association of about 1,200 colleges and universities and athletic conferences devoted to the sound administration of intercollegiate athletics. The members appoint volunteer representatives who serve on committees that introduce and vote on rules called bylaws. The members also establish programs to govern, promote and further the purposes and goals of intercollegiate athletics.

In the past 12 months, 53 faculty, administrators, student-athletes, coaches and Yale alumni have worked on the self-study report, which was voted as a requirement of all Division I institutions by the division's membership at the 1993 annual convention. Yale completed and was awarded its first certification in 1996. In this second cycle, Yale agreed to be among the first universities to complete its self-study report online.

Members of the four subcommittees and steering committee focused on the four different areas required by the self-study: Governance and Rules Compliance (chaired by Emily Bakemeier, assistant provost); Academic Integrity (chaired by Joseph Gordon, deputy dean of Yale College); Fiscal Integrity (chaired by Lloyd Suttle, deputy provost for undergraduate and graduate programs); and Equity, Welfare and Sportsmanship (chaired by Judith Krauss, professor of nursing, master of Silliman College and chair of the Faculty Committee on Athletics).

The chair of the steering committee was Stanton Wheeler, the Ford Foundation Professor Emeritus of Law and the Social Sciences, who was aided in his work by Penelope Laurans, associate dean of Yale College and special assistant to the president. All of the subcommittees consulted widely with other members of the community in investigating the athletics programs and their relation to the general mission of the University.

Just as the University was completing its self-study, the NCAA membership at its January convention voted to eliminate from the self-study those specific written elements having to do with an institution's mission and goals, as well as those concerning the study of fiscal equity and sportsmanship. The fiscal equity and sportsmanship sections of the Yale 2004 report, although completed, will not therefore be a part of the final document.

The subcommittees welcome comments and suggestions concerning the report; comments should be forwarded to stanton.wheeler@yale.edu.

At the end of April, an external peer review team composed of faculty and administrators from other colleges will come to Yale on a three-day evaluation visit to view Yale's facilities and to follow up on aspects of the report with members of the community. The team will then offer its evaluation to the NCAA Committee on Athletics Certification which will determine Yale's certification status and make a public announcement concerning it in the summer of 2004.

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