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JUNE 20, 2002
At its regular spring meeting on June 17, 2002, the Council of Ivy Group Presidents took three actions that are designed to assure close adherence to the fundamental tenets of Ivy League athletics.
“The Council’s actions will continue the Ivy League tradition of strong athletic competition which is, in the words of the original 1954 Ivy Agreement, ‘kept in harmony with the essential purposes of [each Ivy League] institution,’” said Hunter R. Rawlings III, President of Cornell University and Chair of the Council.
These values are encapsulated in the first of the ten “Principles” adopted by the Council in 1979, on the 25th anniversary of the original Ivy Presidents’ agreement: “Intercollegiate athletics ought to be maintained within a perspective that holds paramount the academic programs of the institution and the academic and personal growth of the student athlete.”
In service of this principle, the Council has since the early 1980’s regulated the numbers of recruited student-athletes in certain sports at Ivy League schools, and limited the scope of permissible athletic activities more narrowly than do NCAA Division I regulations. The Council’s current actions build on this structure in three ways.
1. Beginning in fall 2002, each school will establish for each sport, periods of at least seven weeks during the academic year when intercollegiate athletes will have no required athletic activities and in which there will be no coaching supervision of voluntary conditioning or other athletic activities. These periods will supplement current Ivy restrictions, which include a prohibition on competition during examination periods, as well as significantly fewer practice sessions in ’non-traditional’ seasons than are permitted by all other Division I institutions.
2. Effective with the class of 2007, which will be admitted in 2002-03 and will matriculate in fall 2003, the number of students recruited to play football who may matriculate at any Ivy school in any four year period will be reduced from 140 to 120, a reduction in the annual average of such students from 35 to 30. Also effective in fall 2003, the number of institutional football coaches permitted under Ivy rules will change from 6 full-time and 6 part-time to 7 full-time and 3 part-time.
3. The Council will undertake further data collection and analysis, and review of Ivy policies, in response to its concern that the admission of recruited student-athletes to Ivy League institutions remains faithful to core Ivy League principles.
“The review that we are undertaking will strengthen our commitment to the opportunity for a positive Ivy League athletic experience, within the context -- and serving the goals -- of a liberal undergraduate education,” said President Rawlings.
Rawlings also noted that the Council of Presidents had benefited in its discussions from substantial efforts made by the Ivy League Directors of Athletics over the past year to produce recommendations in these areas, as the Council had requested in fall 2001.
The Ivy League was established by the Ivy Presidents’ Agreement in 1954 and began formal competition in the 1956-57 academic year. It is comprised of Brown, Columbia and Cornell Universities, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton and Yale Universities.
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