The Drake Group

The History of The Drake Group
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The Drake Group Mission:

The mission of the The Drake Group (TDG) is to help faculty and staff defend academic integrity in the face of the burgeoning college sport industry. The Drake Group's national network of college faculty lobbies aggressively for proposals that ensure quality education for college athletes, support faculty whose job security is threatened for defending academic standards, and disseminates information on current issues and controversies in sport and higher education. The Drake Group seeks to form coalitions with organizations that share its mission and goals.

The Drake Group Vision:

The Drake Group vision is to create an atmosphere on college campuses that encourages personal and intellectual growth for all students, and demands excellence and professional integrity from faculty charged with teaching.

The 2010-2012 TDG Executive Committee

President:	Jason Lanter (lanter@kutztown.edu)
President-Elect:	Allen Sack (allenlsack@yahoo.com)
Past-President:	Kadence Otto (kotto@email.wcu.edu)
Secretary:	Joel Cormier (jac28@nyu.edu)
Treasurer:	Amanda Paule (apaule@bgsu.edu)
Student Member:	Jason Baxter (jbaxter@bgsu.edu)
Members-at-Large:	Dave Ridpath (ridpath@ohio.edu) Sally Dear-Healey (sdear@binghamton.edu) Fritz Polite (fpolite@utk.edu)

Ex-Officio Members:	Linda Bensel-Meyers (lbenselmeyers@hotmail.com) Jon Ericson (ericsonjl@msn.com)

Annual Meetings:

1999 - The call: The October 1999 conference, Des Moines, Iowa
2000 - The plan: The March 2000 meeting, Des Moines, Iowa
2000 - The organization: The October 2000 meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado
2002 - Stillwater, Oklahoma (meeting information)
2003 - Chicago, Illinois (meeting information)
2004 - San Antonio, Texas (meeting information)
2005 - St. Louis, Missouri (conference information)
2006 - Indianapolis, Indiana (conference information)
2007 - Cleveland, Ohio (conference information)
2008 - Memphis, Tennessee
2009 - Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2010 - Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2011 - Chapel Hill, North Carolina

In conjunction with the annual meetings in 2005 and 2006, TDG hosted an academic conference in the same city as the NCAA Men's Final Four Basketball Championship. In 2007, TDG hosted an academic conference in the same city as the NCAA Women's Final Four Basketball Championship.

Currently, TDG holds its annual meeting in April during the Scholarly Conference on College Sport hosted by the College Sport Research Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.