UNLV President Carol C. Harter has been appointed to an NCAA committee charged with overseeing the association's upcoming football study.
The NCAA Division I Board of Directors made the appointment at its meeting in Florida earlier this month. Harter was one of eight university presidents appointed to voting positions on the Division I Committee to Oversee the NCAA Football Study; another six individuals were appointed to non-voting positions.
Harter, who has long been involved with the NCAA in a variety of capacities, is a member of the Division I Board of Directors, serving as the representative of the Mountain West Conference.
The new committee will conduct an analysis of college football issues that impact the association. The group is expected to present its final report to the Board of Directors in October 2002. It is anticipated that any legislative changes resulting from the study would be implemented by Aug. 1, 2003.
"I am pleased to have been appointed to this committee that will be taking a hard look at many serious issues involving football at the Division I level," Harter said. "The work this committee does will have substantial influence on the future of the sport at the college level."
Among the topics that will be studied are:
- Division I classification structure and Division I governance structure.
- The NCAA's role in certifying football bowl games.
- Pressures affecting football programs.
- Research on the status of college football.
- Student-athlete welfare.
- Marketing and promotion of college football.
- Diversity issues.
- Division II football alliances.
- Long-term viability of college football.
Charles Wethington, president of the University of Kentucky and an immediate former member of the board and chair of the NCAA's Executive Committee, was selected to chair the committee. In addition to Wethington and Harter, the voting members of the board will be the following university presidents: Leroy Davis, South Carolina State University; Robert E. Hemenway, University of Kansas; William E. Kirwan, Ohio State University; the Rev. Edward A. Malloy, University of Notre Dame; V. Lane Rawlins, Washington State University; and Joseph A. Steger, University of Cincinnati.
