OUR MISSION

To ensure that the promise of college athletics is realized for all stakeholders

WHO WE ARE 

The Drake Group is an academic think tank working to better educate the U.S. Congress and higher education decision-makers about critical issues in intercollegiate athletics.

At the heart of our purpose is generating fact-based research and recommendations that enable policymakers to advance legislation to make college sport a better place by ensuring that there is academic and ethical integrity in the conduct of college athletics programs.

We believe that the promise of college athletics is its continuing contribution to the development of participants and the excitement and community it brings to the higher education campus, alumni, and fans.  We believe that this promise is only fulfilled if athletes who create this excitement are protected from educational and economic exploitation, discrimination on the basis of sex, race, and gender identification, and physical and mental abuse.

OUR VISION

• The primary functions of college sports are to provide extracurricular individual development opportunities for students and contribute to the building of campus community and alumni/fan relationships.
• All athletes who exhaust their collegiate athletics eligibility have a genuine opportunity to graduate with a meaningful educational degree.
• College athletes are protected from educational and economic exploitation, sex, race and other forms of discrimination, and physical and mental abuse.
• All college athletes are fully integrated into diverse and inclusive campus communities and have the time and freedom to enjoy higher education’s vibrant social and intellectual environment.
• The cost of athletic programs is appropriate for a student extracurricular activity within a tax-exempt non-profit educational institution.
• The corrosive aspects of commercialized college sports are eliminated.

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