NCAA

NCAA

Introduction

Sports have long been a vital part of the individual's development and a resource for boosting the economic and bilateral relations of a country. There are various agencies, associations and institutions which are involved in the sport management activities on local and international level. This paper will discuss the management of sports in NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association), along with the history, background and current issues related to the organization. It will discuss the ethical issues NCAA faced and the CSR initiatives taken by the association. NCAA is an association involving 1,281 conferences, institutions, individuals and organizations that systematize the championship and athletic programs being conducted under the management of various universities and colleges in the Canada and United States.

History

The information of NCAA dates back its establishment to two conferences of White House organized by President Theodore Roosevelt. They tended to support and encourage reforms for the college football performance in the early period of 20th century. After the meetings at White House, a meeting was organized by New York University's Chancellor Henry McCracken in which 13 universities and colleges were invited to initiate changes; later, 62 institutions gained the status of becoming charter members of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The Intercollegiate Athletic Association, United States was officially formed on March 31, 1906, and later, in 1910, it was given the name NCAA.

Membership

The programs for women's athletics started in NCAA in the early 1980s when 10 championships were established for Divisions II and III in 1981-82. The membership of the association is divided into three competitive and legislative divisions in 1973 that were division I, II and III. After a year, a comprehensive governance plan was adopted by the historic 75th Convention for the inclusion of services of the women's athletics programs and their representation. By the year 1982, however, the NCAA was joined by most of the AIAW members and the numerous events of national championship were offered by all the NCAA divisions. Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada joined the association in the year 2009 and was the first non-US member institution of NCAA (Limier, Joe, 2009). Today there are 1,066 schools possess the active membership of NCAA. 340 of them are in Division I; Division II possesses 290 member schools and 436 in Division III. All three divisions also contain 95 member conferences. Overall membership including conferences, schools, and related associations is 1,273.

Organizational Breakdown

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (ncaa.org) or NCAA has its headquarters in Indianapolis. Its main purpose is the organization of the athletic programs in the United States. The NCAA includes more than 1,200 colleges and universities. This organization hosted national events for collegiate athletics, including the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments and the College World Series.

Mission statement

“Our purpose is to govern competition in a fair, safe, equitable and sportsmanlike manner, and to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student-athlete is paramount.”

The mission statement of NCAA possess two notions that are its core purpose which is the ...