A Profile of Intercollegiate Athletics Conference Commissioners and Conferences

Authors

  • Jerome Quarterman

Abstract

This study examined selected personal, educational, and professional  demographic characteristics of intercollegiate athletics commissioners in conferences of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA). Of ninety-two commissioners, seventy-five (81.3%) returned the questionnaires
in completed and usable forms. Mean age of the respondents was 50.6 years and they ranged between ages 31 and 71. All of the respondents held
a bachelors degree. More than one-third (36%) of such degrees were in the fields of health, physical education and recreation. The most frequently highest degrees were the masters, (48.0%), followed by doctorates (20.0%), and bachelors (18.6%). The respondents averaged over 20 years in  administrative positions however, more than half of them (53.3%D) had over 15 or more years of administrative experiences. They also earned salaries which averaged $99,506 and ranged between $53,000 and 200,000 per year White American males (89.3%o) were the largest group of respondents. The remaining respondents were women and minorities who accounted for one-tenth (10.6%o) of the respondents. Further administrators who desires to become an intercollegiate conference commissioner will now be able to secure this information prior to entering the sports business world. They will be able to identify some of the significant undertakings that they will face as well as strategies for a potential career as an intercollegiate athletics  administrator.

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Published

1999-04-27

Issue

Vol. 56 No. 2 (1999)

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