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A panel of distinguished national leaders in higher education and athletics has completed a report with recommendations about the role of athletics in campus life commissioned by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The panel’s suggestions have broad implications for the national higher education community. The report, released today (Sept. 3), is posted at http://rawlingspanel.web.unc.edu/files/2013/09/Rawlings-Panel_Intercollegiate-Athletics-at-UNC-Chapel-Hill.pdf. 

A panel of distinguished national leaders in higher education and athletics has completed a report with recommendations about the role of athletics in campus life commissioned by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The panel’s suggestions have broad implications for the national higher education community. The report, released today (Sept. 3), is posted at http://rawlingspanel.web.unc.edu/files/2013/09/Rawlings-Panel_Intercollegiate-Athletics-at-UNC-Chapel-Hill.pdf. 

The panel, chaired by Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities (AAU), was asked to make recommendations for UNC-Chapel Hill and to provide ideas for other universities in addressing a challenging issue for all of higher education. Then Chancellor Holden Thorp appointed the panel earlier this year in response to a 2012 faculty report. The panel convened a roundtable discussion on campus in April. 
As president of the AAU, Rawlings leads a nonprofit organization of 62 leading research universities in the United States and Canada including UNC. A former university president and student-athlete, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Joining Rawlings on the panel were:
  • James Delany, longtime commissioner of the Big Ten Conference and a former NCAA enforcement officer. He holds bachelor’s and law degrees from Carolina, where he was a tri-captain on the men’s basketball team.
  • Amy Perko, executive director of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, and previously an NCAA employee and athletics administrator at the University of Kansas. She earned academic honors as a Wake Forest student-athlete.
  • Bob Malekoff, associate professor and sport studies chair at Guilford College and a former athletics director and coach. He has written about athletics and sports management.
  • Patricia Timmons-Goodson, former associate justice of the N.C. Supreme Court who holds two UNC-Chapel Hill degrees and served on the N.C. Court of Appeals. She serves on Guilford College’s Board of Trustees.
Note:  News Services will issue a related news release reporting the University’s response to the report with statements from Chancellor Folt and Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham. Refer to rawlingspanel.web.unc.edu.
News Services contacts:  Karen Moon, (919) 962-8585, karen_moon@unc.edu, Robbi Pickeral, (919) 962-8589, robbi.pickeral@unc.edu 
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