Members—

Charges—

Standing Charges

1. Start each year with a joint meeting of the Kansas Athletics Inc. (KAI) staff and the Athletic Committee.
   1. KAI would outline the things that are on their agenda that the committee could work on to help KAI and student athletes. The Senate Athletic Committee could do the same.
   2. From this meeting, the agenda for the rest of the year could be built.
2. Review KU and KAI efforts to promote and maintain academic excellence for the student athletes.
   1. Identify potential academic barriers and recommend mechanisms to overcome such barriers including collaboration with the student athlete academic support services.
   2. Review current-year data on missed class days due to competition and travel.
   3. Review the following KAI academic reports: Spring and Fall Student-Athlete Grade Summary, NCAA Academic Progress Rate Institutional Report, Graduation Rates and the KAI report on academic majors for student-athletes and non-athletes.
   4. Review the effects of university changes regarding core requirements, majors, minors, certificates, and other curricular issues.
3. Review KU and KAI efforts to provide a premier student athlete experience.
   1. Review programs designed to ensure the personal development and personal welfare of student athletes, including nutrition and physical health, mental health, and safety.
   2. Review reports from KAI exit-interviews and KAI survey questions regarding participation in the broader campus community.
   3. Review Student Athlete Advisory Committee programs and recommend opportunities to improve student athlete involvement in extracurricular campus and community activities.
4. Help ensure KU maintains athletic compliance with University, Big XII and NCAA rules, and Federal law.
   1. Review educational programs and communication strategies to ensure the KU community better understands the combined responsibility for compliance.
   2. Review and summarize KAI reports identifying athletic compliance parameters, including, but not limited to, recruiting practices and university admissions.
   3. Review KU and KAI policies and procedures on drug testing, diversity and sexual harassment, including Title IX compliance, and alcohol use in matters of sexual assault reporting.
5. Help ensure KU meets its strategic goals pertaining to athletics.
   1. Recommend educational programs and communication strategies to enhance the balance between academics and athletics, as well as to promote a broad understanding of the goals and priorities of each.
   2. Recommend mechanisms for improved communication between KAI coaches and staff and KU faculty, staff, and students.
   3. Maintain regular communications with the NCAA/Big XII Faculty Representative, the Athletics Advisory Committee (AAC), KAI, and University Governance to ensure the needs of each are being served.

Specific Charges

1. Monitor the continued impact of Name-Image-Likeness and the ways in which the university should be involved, specifically as it applies to time constraints placed on student-athletes.
2. Address mental health and well-being of student-athletes.
3. Monitor the athletic time commitments and impact on student-athletes, specifically in relation to their educational expectations.
4. Consider the future of college athletics, specifically the impact that being left out of a “super” conference or league would have on the university prestige and enrollment.
5. Continued monitoring of the academic success of student-athletes, specifically as the transfer portal continues to facilitate movement between schools.
6. Consider the impact of significant athletic successes (e.g., 2022 Men’s Basketball National Championship, 2023 Women’s Basketball WNIT Championship) on the university (enrollment, fundraising, etc.) and ways the university did use/could use it to benefit the university community.
7. Monitor any legislative action taken by the Kansas Legislature to discriminate against transgender athletes in college athletics. Consider any necessary supportive measures.
8. Explore ways the university could be integrated into the facility improvements on campus, specifically the proposed renovations of the football stadium.

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