From Elizabeth.Bradley@Colorado.EDU Sat Oct 15 11:38:24 2011 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on research.cs.colorado.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:38:23 -0600 From: Liz Bradley To: Anne.Sheehan@Colorado.EDU, Martha.Hanna@Colorado.EDU, e.scott.adler@Colorado.EDU, helen.norton@Colorado.EDU, dduncan@Colorado.EDU, Bob.Sievers@Colorado.EDU, Stephen.Jones@Colorado.EDU, isaac.reed@Colorado.EDU, lizb@research.cs.colorado.edu, David.Clough@Colorado.EDU, tsnow@casa.Colorado.edu, Michael.Bohn@Colorado.EDU, Cecelia.Barry@Colorado.EDU, Julie.Manning@Colorado.EDU, Joseph.Jupille@Colorado.EDU, niklas.maccarter@Colorado.EDU, brian.lockridge@Colorado.EDU cc: sierra.swearingen@Colorado.EDU Subject: September IAC meeting followup Reply-to: lizb@cs.colorado.edu Greetings - I began the September meeting of the BFA Intercollegiate Athletics Committee by passing around a copy of an article entitled "The Shame of College Athletics." I've also posted it on our webpage; please read it before out next meeting. I then noted that we still do not have a student-athlete rep. (hint, hint) Regarding the BFA's vote on COIA's endorsement of the Knight Commission recommendations: we were asked to review the materials and make a recommendation regarding CU's vote on this, which we have done. The BFA has now asked us for that recommendation in the form of a formal motion. There was strong sentiment that we've done our job and should tell them that. Unless anyone disagrees, I will email Jerry to that effect next week. We revisited the friday football game, preparations for which seem to be working out quite well. There will be some conflict & kerfluffle, particularly regarding parking, but the BFA's voice was heard and acted upon and the communication has generally been quite good. (In the PAC12 faculty summit today, by the way, this was viewed as "a triumph of shared governance.") The PAC12 FARs are going to talk about weekday games; Dave will brief us after that conversation occurs. I'll talk more about that PAC12 faculty summit when we meet next. I summarized the BFA executive committee's reactions to our recommendations regarding the syllabus blurb and our ideas about faculty/athletics engagement. Both were very well received. The former got shipped to another committee for implementation and deployment, so it's off our plate (and effectively so). The latter were also very well received; lots of people perked up at the thought of being guest coaches, especially. Athletics should (1) invite the BFA excomm as guest coaches (2) invite the whole BFA assembly for a tour/lunch of the new facility sometime soon (3) set up a program wherein SAs invite faculty to competitions and (4) broaden faculty participation in student-athlete awards events (e.g., all 4.0-club SAs get to invite a faculty member). ***** MIKE, CEAL: is this do-able? We then heard a report from Dave & Mike about NCAA Division I Board of Directors meetings. (This is on our agenda for our next meeting as well.) Four working groups have formed, and will report back in October. Dave expects several big changes: increased APR requirement for post-season competition, raising admission standards ("partial qualifiers" not to be allowed to play in their first year), and also an increase in scholarship amounts. We then talked about the scholarship appeals committee, which is still fraught. I will meet with Gwen Pomper and assure her that this is not random faculty, but a pool of engaged ones who know about athletics and NCAA regulations, and who are committed to being available when she needs us. (This was her stated reason for resisting the changes that she had agreed to a few years ago.) Mike then presented the new guiding principles that have been developed by the department of athletics. The committee voted unanimously to express its enthusiasm and approval for these principles, and suggested that he inform the broader CU/Boulder community about them. Our next topic was foreign trips by the MBB and WBB teams. The committee brainstormed ways in which these trips could be aligned with some of the traditional goals & purposes of academic travel-abroad programs, and how we could usefully piggyback any outreach/publicity initiatives onto those trips. Finally, Dave gave us a quick and hugely positive APR report. The numbers won't be public for several months, but we are in Very Good Shape...lots of 1000 ratings and no problem spots. As always, please let me know if I've missed or mangled anything. Our next meeting will be Oct 25th. I'll be in touch late next week with an agenda. Liz