Members—

Charges—

Standing Charges

1. Review KU and Kansas Athletics Inc. (KAI) efforts to promote and maintain academic excellence, as they pertain to athletics. (ongoing)
   
   1. Identify potential barriers to student athlete integration into curricular and extra-curricular activities, and recommend mechanisms to overcome such barriers.
   2. Recommend campus initiatives to target academic success of student athletes, including collaboration with the on-going academic programs at the Student Athlete Support Center. .
   3. Recommend educational programs and communication strategies to increase community awareness of issues such as Academic Progress Rate (APR), progress towards degree and similar regulations as well as academic honors and awards to student-athletes.
   4. Review current-year data on missed class days due to competition and travel.
   5. Review the following KAI academic reports: Spring and Fall Student-Athlete Grade Summary, NCAA Academic Progress Rate Institutional Report, and Graduation Rates.
   6. Review the KAI report on academic majors for student-athletes and non-athletes.
2. Review KU and KAI efforts to provide a premiere student-athlete experience. (ongoing)
   
   1. Recommend mechanisms to enable broader discussions of opportunities to improve the student-athlete experience.
   2. Provide review of programs designed to ensure the academic success, personal development, and personal welfare of student athletes.
   3. Review, summarize and disseminate KAI reports identifying student wellness parameters including but not limited to drug testing practices and policies, nutrition and physical health, psychological and emotional well being, and social integration.
   4. Review data resulting from KAI exit-interview and KAI survey questions regarding participation in the broader campus community.
3. Help to ensure that KU maintains athletic compliance with University, Big XII and NCAA rules. (ongoing)
   
   1. Recommend educational programs and communication strategies to ensure the KU community better understands our combined responsibility for compliance.
   2. Review and summarize KAI reports identifying athletic compliance parameters including but not limited to ten-day absence policies, academic screening practices and recruiting practices.
4. Help to ensure that KU strategic goals pertaining to athletics are accomplished. (ongoing)
   
   1. Recommend educational programs and communication strategies to enhance the balance between academics and athletics, as well as to promulgate broad understanding of the goals and priorities of each.
   2. Review KU and KAI practices and policies pertaining to diversity in athletics, including Title IX compliance.
5. Help to facilitate systematic dialog between KU and KAI regarding items of mutual interest. (ongoing)
   
   1. Recommend mechanisms for improved communication between KAI and faculty, staff and students.
   2. Work with KAI to avoid potentially divisive issues of interest to 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.
   4. Ensure that at least one member continues to participate in the CAC, including subcommittees, such as those on athlete well being.

Specific Charges

1. Evaluate pattern of majors over time, to determine emerging trends, and whether student-athletes deviate from the distribution of non-athletes beyond minor discrepancies.  Review CIP/University division discrepancy data.
2. Collaborate with KAI on strategies to promote increased awareness of student-athlete academic honors and awards to the broader KU community.
3. Compare student-athlete integration into campus activities to non-athlete students. Include students not yet at their senior year.
4. Continue dialogue with KAI Compliance to identify strategies for dissemination information to faculty and appropriate staff regarding compline issues and regulations that are impacted by academic actions and decisions.
5. Review the KAI annual audit reports on Title IX and diversity.
6. Review the outcomes of the FY11 recommendations regarding the funding and access to athletic training for club sports (see FY11 report for information, see p. 8, report, for specific issues).
7. Identify strategies in collaboration with KAI to facilitate increased communication to the campus regarding the vision and goals of KAI, given the change in leadership.

Final Reports and Outcomes—