Identify one case of improper leadership ethics in the media and critique.
In class this past Thursday, Nance Lucas had asked us to identify an individual who we thought was an ethical individual. One of the people that I wrote down was our Compliance staff within the athletic department. Our compliance staff is responsible for enforcing and monitoring the rules and regulations established by the NCAA. If you do violate a NCAA rule, the compliance staff is responsible for reporting the violation. As I was looking for my case, the first article I found relates to compliance issue in higher education. The article, “Rogue Compliance Officer” was posted on Inside Higher Ed on March 27.
The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions recently released a report on major violations at Texas A& M Corpus Christi in men's basketball, women's volleyball, and men's tennis. A women's volleyball player competed after her eligibility expired, men's basketball staff violated rules relating to contacting prospective student athletes, and an international men's tennis player received excess financial aid from the university. The two individuals involved within the case were expected to “to deport themselves in according with the general recognized high standards of honesty and sportsmanship normally associated with the conduct and administration of intercollegiate athletics.”---these individuals clearly did not believe in this statement.
It turns out that the President of the university was previously aware of the situation and instructed his athletic director to take care of the matter and report the violations. The compliance staff and the athletic director did not report the violations and the NCAA punishment resulted in forfeiting games for the men's tennis and women's volleyball in the season this occurred and for men's basketball reduction in recruiting contact. Texas A&M Corpus Christi is on violation with the NCAA till 2013.
The article concludes by saying that no specific punishments were charged to the two individuals involved. However, Paul Dee, Committee on Infractions chair and lecturer at the University of Miami, said “all details of cases of unethical conduct are housed by the NCAA and can be accessed by institutions that may be considering hiring one of them in the future, or otherwise have an interest in their past. This public reprimand by the NCAA and permanent spot on the committee’s list, he noted, could be considered their punishment.” These two individuals were fired from Texas A & M and subsequently are on a black list with the NCAA. Who would hire either of them for a future positions within compliance.
One of the definitions that we received on Thursday, defined ethics as rules or standards that govern behaviors; sentiment of the community. This is a great example of unethical behavior as the rules established by the NCAA were clearly broken resulting in probation for the entire Texas A & M Corpus Christi community.
Here is the link to the article:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/27/ncaa
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Meghan,
Thanks for the link. Think sports (like running for political office) being so competitive brings out the ethical factor into the sunshine more so than other endeavors. Sometimes, the effort to be ethical can go to extremes. For example, years ago in the seventies, an athlete in the Ivy League could not be awarded a varsity sweater because it was believed by the league that giving an athlete a letter sweater was "paying" a person to play a sport! Also, the league was not allowed to award sport scholarships. There was nice because if someone was injured, they would not lose a scholarship.
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