Myles Brand

Myles David Brand ( born May 17, 1942 in Brooklyn, † 16 September 2009 in Indianapolis ) was an American academic and sports official. He served from 1989 to 1994 as president of the University of Oregon and from 1994 to 2002 held the same position at Indiana University. Then he headed until his death, the American College Sports Association National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA). Focus of his sport and university policy work include the use of a balanced role of sport in American higher education system and the emphasis on the importance of academic education of high school athletes.

Life

Myles Brand was born in 1942 in Brooklyn and acquired in 1964 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a bachelor's degree in philosophy. Three years later he earned his doctorate at the University of Rochester. He then worked until 1972 at the University of Pittsburgh, before he moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he headed the Department of Philosophy from 1972 to 1980. After his move to the University of Arizona, he headed there from 1981 to 1983 also the Humanities Department and from 1983 to 1986 as Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. From 1986 to 1989, he served as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Ohio State University. In 1989, he became president of the University of Oregon, where he worked until 1994. In the same year he became president of Indiana University, a university with around 100,000 students at nine locations.

During his ministry at Indiana University, there was, among others, the privatization of the University Hospital and the establishment of the department of computer science. In addition, he initiated a very successful advertising campaign to increase the endowment and to enhance public and private research funding of the university. As controversial was his decision in September 2000, the popular and won three national championships to dismiss highly successful coach of the basketball team at the University of Bobby Knight after 29 years. The main reason for this decision, which led to protests in the student body, were repeated allegations of players about physical abuse by the coach. Although he lost prestige among the students and the alumni of the Indiana University because of this decision marked the thereby triggered public discussion as well as a speech in 2001 in which he titled " Academics First: Reforming Intercollegiate Athletics" to a transformation of the college sports system called, its perception as a proponent of a balanced weighting of sporting and academic goals instead of prioritizing sporting successes.

In October 2002, some two years after the dismissal of Bobby Knight, Myles Brand of the American University Sports Association National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA) was appointed from January 2003 to the President. He was the first former university president in this position and thus differed in terms of its experience fundamentally different from its predecessor, Cedric Dempsey, who had been an active athlete and coach. Also known as NCAA president, he still tried to propagate his views on the weighting of sports and academic education. So it was under his direction for the introduction of rating systems that allow under the names of Academic Progress Report and Graduation Success Rate both an individual and a university- based controls on the academic performance of high school athletes and led to various disciplinary action against colleges whose athletes had below -average grades. He also strengthened the role of university presidents over the sports directors of universities in decisions of the NCAA and sat down in addition to the use of mascots and team names related to Indian traditions a.

Myles Brand died in September 2009 in Indianapolis, from pancreatic cancer after his illness had become publicly known until January of this year. He was married twice and has one son.

Awards

The City University of Hong Kong (2002), the Florida Southern College (2003), Indiana University (2009), the University of Notre Dame ( 2009), the Babson College ( 2009) and Franklin & Marshall College ( 2009) awarded Myles Brand honorary doctorate. In addition, he was honored in 2009 by the American Association of University Professors American Council on Education for his lifetime achievements with a Distinguished Service Award.