The Arizona Board of Regents will conduct a review of the state’s intercollegiate athletics programs to examine how universities, students, and the state benefit from public spending on college sports, the board’s president wrote in The Arizona Daily Star. “The time is ripe for such a review,” wrote Ernest Calderón. “Our assessment will not be conducted as an inquisition, nor will it produce a Pollyana’s view of big-time college athletic programs. It will simply serve to guide our universities toward activities that … either satisfy or set benchmarks for measurable accountability.”
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One Response to Arizona Regents Zero In on Athletics
amcneece - September 14, 2009 at 5:53 pm
It’s about time that at least one state took the lead in holding athletic programs accountable for their spending. At the University where I spent the last 30 years of my career, the accounting standards for athletic programs were different (and more forgiving) than the standards for academic programs- according to my wife, who worked in the accounting department. The Provost and President were always quick to comment about how much athletics benefited the University’s academic programs, but I don’t remember any data ever being presented to back up that claim.