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NCAA President Myles Brand
to Speak About Morality at Oglethorpe Commencement
Atlanta – Myles Brand, president of NCAA,
will speak at Oglethorpe University’s 2003 commencement ceremony on
Saturday, May 10, 2003, on the Academic Quadrangle. The ceremony
will begin at 9:30 a.m.
Brand will deliver the commencement address, "Making
a Moral Difference," and will be presented with an honorary Doctor
of Letters degree. Previous recipients at Oglethorpe commencements
have included Bernard Baruch, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert Lehman,
Tom J. Watson, T. Woodrow Wilson, and more recently Daniel Boorstin,
Andrew Young, Anne Rivers Siddons, Billy Payne, Karl Haas, Yoel
Levi, Max Cleland and Zell Miller.
The first university president to be named president
of the NCAA, Myles Brand began his presidency of the National
Collegiate Athletic Association on January 1, 2003, after serving as
president of Indiana University for eight years. While at Indiana he
became a prominent figure in the press when he terminated the
contract of Bobby Knight as the basketball coach. He also oversaw
the largest single privatization effort in Indiana history, the
consolidation of the IU Medical Center Hospitals and Methodist
Hospital to form Clarian Health.
Brand holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of
Rochester and has held teaching and leadership positions at
University of Pittsburgh, University of Illinois-Chicago, University
of Arizona, and Ohio State University. Brand also served as
president of University of Oregon from 1989 to 1994.
Oglethorpe University promises a classic education
in a contemporary city. Oglethorpe students learn to make a life,
make a living and make a difference. Our graduates become community
leaders who are distinctive in their ability to think, communicate
and contribute. Oglethorpe University is located in the heart of
Brookhaven, just north of Buckhead. The university is a highly
selective, independent, co-educational institution that enrolls
approximately 1,200 students each year. Oglethorpe's students
represent the best of their graduating classes, with an average GPA
above 3.6, and average SAT above 1,200. Following graduation,
students often go on to the best graduate schools in the nation.
Recent placements include Cambridge University, Columbia University,
University of North Carolina, Duke University, Harvard University,
Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University and Yale University.
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