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Dr. Myles Brand
President
National Collegiate Athletic Association |
Myles Brand assumed his duties as president of the National Collegiate
Athletic Association January 1, 2003. He is the fourth chief executive
officer of the Association.
During his first two-and-a-half years, Brand presided over passage
of the most comprehensive academic reform package for intercollegiate
athletics in recent history - a package that refocuses the attention
of student-athletes, coaches and administrators on the education of
student-athletes. Brand has also changed the national dialog on college
sports to emphasize the educational value of athletics participation
and the integration of intercollegiate athletics with the academic
mission of higher education. His tenure has helped reestablish the
indispensable role of university presidents in the governance of college
sports.
Brand was himself president of two major universities. From 1994 through
2002, he 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.
USA Today said of Brand: “He’ll forever be known as the
guy who fired Bob Knight. Brand has often been outspoken. He has successfully
thrown his weight behind movements that produced recruiting reforms
and unprecedented penalties for teams’ academic deficiencies
and has launched an ambitious campaign to get schools to rethink the
way they throw money at sports.”
Born May 17, 1942, Brand earned his BS in philosophy from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute in 1964, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the
University of Rochester in 1967. Brand's other administrative posts
include provost and vice-president for academic affairs, Ohio State
University, 1986-89; coordinating dean, College of Arts and Sciences,
University of Arizona, 1985-86; dean, faculty of social and behavioral
sciences, Arizona,1983-86; director, Cognitive Science Program, Arizona,
1982-85; head, department of philosophy, Arizona,1981-83; chairman,
department of philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1972-80.
He began his career in the department of philosophy, University of
Pittsburgh, 1967-72.
Brand has also served on the Executive Committee of the Board of directors,
Association of American Universities (AAU), and as board chair, 1999-2000;
a member of the board of directors, 1992-97, and executive committee,
1994-97, of the American Council on Education (ACE); and a member
of the board of directors of the National Association of State Universities
and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC), 1995-98. He served too as a board
member of the American Philosophical Association and of the University
Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, the umbrella organization
of Internet2.
His academic research investigates the nature of human action. His
work focuses on intention, desire, belief and other cognitive states,
as well as deliberation and practical reasoning, planning and general
goal-directed activity. He has also written extensively on various
topics in higher education, such as tenure and undergraduate education. |
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