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Administrators and coaches are not the only people who believe in the quality of the athletic experience for shaping well-rounded students. Many faculty are likewise supportive. Dean of Harvard College and Professor of Computer Science Harry Lewis has traveled across the country supporting Crimson athletes and teams. Thomas J. Anton, director of the Taubman Center of Public Policy at Brown University and Brown’s representative to the Ivy League Policy Committee, articulates his appreciation of the breadth of education available to students at Ivy schools, emphasizing athletics as a valuable part of the undergraduate experience:
We admit real students who can read and write, who take regular courses, and who graduate in four years with meaningful degrees. We give real scholarships to promote learning that cannot be taken away if a student chooses to give up his or her sport. We promote and achieve excellence in a broad array of sports, in keeping with the interest of our students and faculties, with coaches who think of themselves as educators. We graduate men and women who, in part because of their participation in intercollegiate athletics, go on to positions of national and international leadership. For Ivy institutions, in short, education drives the athletic enterprise rather than the other way around. Particularly at this juncture in our history, we should do more as a league to promote the Ivy model.
The many Ivy faculty who recognize and value the Ivy model of athletics are fundamental to the educational experience of Ivy student-athletes.
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