The Bloomington campus Athletics Committee gave its annual report to the Bloomington Faculty Council on Tuesday. In the report they discussed some of their major activities.
“This year the presentation is slightly different from the past,” chair of athletics committee David Daleke said. “They asked us to give a list of our activities and some of the highlights of what has happened in the past year.”
Among other items the group and its subdivisions made revisions to some of its policies, such as its social media policy and sexual misconduct section. They talked about issues, such as misconduct proposals, in intercollegiate athletics. The committee also reviewed and approved next year’s football and men’s basketball ticket prices and helped with the hiring of head water polo coach Ryan Castle.
They also reviewed academic matters regarding sponsored athletes. Questions had been asked about athletes and their involvement in school.
“There were specific questions that had to do with how student athletes integrate with campus,” Daleke said.
As part of its effort to answer these questions, the committee also gave statistics on the number of student athletes and what majors they studied. Twenty-five percent of IU athletes studied exercise science, and 23 percent study liberal studies. Finance majors make up 21 percent of the student athletes, while marketing majors make up 16 percent. Fifteen percent of IU athletes study accounting.
Another item on the BFC agenda was a proposal to change a BFC bylaw. The council had its first reading of the proposed change in September. The bylaw affects representatives for different school policy committees and specifically involves the regulations regarding the representatives from the College of Arts and Sciences.
The amendment will identify clearly the liaisons between Bloomington Faculty Council and existing school policies, director of graduate studies Colin Johnson said.
However, only one of the representatives of the College of Arts and Sciences was at the meeting.
Associate professor of political science Jon Simons moved to postpone the discussion until the November meeting. His motion was seconded, but another council member said they worried the change might not be able to be brought up as soon as Simons was proposing.
After talking about this for a few minutes, the council voted to postpone the proposal discussion until the November meeting.
