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NCAA News Release
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NCAA President Myles Brand To Give Keynote Address To The Fourth Annual Horizon Awards And Present The Sports Business Executive Of The Year Award
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For Immediate Release
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
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Contact(s)
Jeff Howard
Managing Director of Public and Media Relations
317/917-6117
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INDIANAPOLIS---NCAA President Myles Brand will be giving the keynote address at the Fourth Annual Horizon Awards and presenting the Sports Business Executive of the Year Award on Friday, November 5, 2004, at 8 p.m. at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel in Downtown Atlanta, Georgia.
�I am tremendously excited about this opportunity not only to discuss the influence the sports entertainment industry has on college athletics but also the current state of intercollegiate athletics and perhaps, most importantly, where we believe college sports must move in the near future,� Brand said.
In 2003, the NCAA, along with CBS and The Coca-Cola Company, won the sports business impact partnership of the year in the marketing and media partnership category.
The Horizon Awards are presented each year to companies and executives from the professional sports leagues, television networks, Fortune 500 corporations and technology companies who have significantly impacted the sports business industry via cutting-edge technology, media, marketing and advertising. The Fourth Annual Horizon Awards will be held in conjunction with the 2004 TOUR Championship in Atlanta.
About Myles Brand
Myles Brand assumed his duties as president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association January 1, 2003. He is the fourth chief executive officer of the Association. Brand was president from 1994 through 2002 of Indiana University, an eight-campus institution of higher education with nearly 100,000 students, 17,000 employees and a budget of $3.4 billion. Brand also served as president at the University of Oregon from 1989 to 1994.
Born May 17, 1942, Brand earned his BS in philosophy from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1964, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Rochester in 1967. Brand's other administrative posts include provost and vice-president for academic affairs, Ohio State University, 1986-89; coordinating dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arizona, 1985-86; dean, faculty of social and behavioral sciences, Arizona,1983-86; director, Cognitive Science Program, Arizona, 1982-85; head, department of philosophy, Arizona,1981-83; chairman, department of philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1972-80. He began his career in the department of philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1967-72.
Brand has also served as chair of the board of directors of the Association of American Universities (AAU), 1999-2000; a member of the board of directors, 1992-97, and executive committee, 1994-97, of the American Council on Education (ACE); and a member of the board of directors of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC), 1995-98. He served too as a board member of the American Philosophical Association and of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, the umbrella organization of Internet2.
His academic research investigates the nature of human action. His work focuses on intention, desire, belief and other cognitive states, as well as deliberation and practical reasoning, planning and general goal-directed activity. He has also written extensively on various topics in higher education, such as tenure and undergraduate education. Brand's nationally acclaimed January 2001 speech to the National Press Club, "Academics First: Reforming Intercollegiate Athletics," focused on how the disconnect between intercollegiate athletics and education "jeopardizes the essential mission of our universities."
At Indiana, Brand oversaw the largest single privatization effort in the institution's history - the consolidation of the IU Medical Center Hospitals and Methodist Hospital to form Clarian Health Partners. He initiated an innovative marketing plan designed to more effectively tell the story of Indiana University's first-class programs and educational opportunities. He helped Indiana University become a national leader in information technology, and he led the largest and most successful endowment campaign in the university's history. Brand was also instrumental in initiating the Central Indiana Life Sciences project, with IU in the leadership role.
Myles Brand is married to Peg Zeglin Brand, a faculty member in Philosophy and Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has one son and two granddaughters.
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