An alliance of faculty senates working for intercollegiate sports reform  

The Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics

        The Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA) is an alliance of 56 Division 1A university faculty senates  whose aim is to promote comprehensive reform of intercollegiate sports. The need for reform of intercollegiate athletics is serious and requires immediate and focused action. The COIA has emerged as a faculty voice on a variety of issues related to the overall problems facing intercollegiate sports. These issues include but are not limited to academic integrity, athlete welfare, governance of athletics at the school and conference level, finances, and commercialization.  Some of these issues may be resolved quickly, but others may require as much as a decade. With a comprehensive plan, however, the ineffectiveness of the piecemeal approach of the past can be avoided.  It is our hope that through conversations with other groups and individuals - such as the NCAA, the Association of Governing Boards (AGB), the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the Knight Commission, the Division 1A Faculty Athletics Representatives (D1A-FARs), the Faculty Athletics Representatives Association (FARA),  the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics (N4A), the Division 1A Athletics Directors Association, university presidents, and conference commissioners - the COIA can contribute to a plan of action for the coming decade.  The COIA encourages efforts to compile and analyze relevant data, and remains open to rethinking its positions as information becomes available.   The long term goal of the COIA is to work with all groups  to develop a comprehensive plan that can be practically implemented as a series of scheduled steps.

COIA: A Personal Perspective

Robert Eno ; Co-founder and former co-chair of COIA,  Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington IN  (video: mov  avi)

Dutch Baughman, Executive Director, Division 1A Athletic Directors' Association,    920 S. Main Street, Suite 100, Grapevine TX (video: mov  avi)

Robert Clayton; Attorney, Littler Mendelson P.C., 1150 17th Street NW, Suite 900, Washington DC (video: mov  avi)

Additional perspectives