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By Matthew Winston
mwinston@uga.edu
President Michael F. Adams has been named to the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, a Miami-based foundation whose 1991 report on college athletics led to significant changes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Adams joins a number of college presidents, corporate CEOs and former athletic stars on the 28-member panel. He is one of eight new members, including Stanley Ikenberry, president of the American Council on Education (ACE), and Cedrick W. Dempsey, president of the NCAA. Twenty members of the original commission will return to the committee, including Donald Keough, past president of Coca-Cola; Charles Young, interim president of the University of Florida; LeRoy Walker, former chancellor of North Carolina Central University and former president of the U.S. Olympic Committee; and Richard Kazmaier, president of Kazmaier Associates and former Heisman Trophy winner from Princeton University.
Adams is considered a national leader in higher education. He is currently chairman of the board of directors of ACE and recently concluded terms as chair of the Southern University Conference and the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and School.
Continuing a lifelong interest in athletics, Adams, who lettered in track and field in college, served as founder and first president of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. He also served as vice chairman of the NCAA Presidents Commission. He continues his active participation in athletic affairs as a member of the Board of Presidents of the Southeastern Conference. In 1996 the Knight Foundation awarded Adams the National Presidential Leadership award.
The commission will reconvene Aug. 28 in Washington, D.C., a decade after they issued their last report, which proposed such measures as increasing presidential control of the NCAA, strengthening the academic integrity of athletic programs, improving the financial integrity of intercollegiate athletics and extending the NCAA certification process to all colleges. The commission plans to meet again in October and November of this year and issue a new report in early 2001.
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