Myles Brand serves as president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. He has presided over the most comprehensive academic reform package for intercollegiate athletics in recent history - a package that refocuses the attention of student-athletes, coaches and administrators on the education of student-athletes. His tenure has helped reestablished the indispensable role of university presidents in the governance of college sports. Previously, Brand was president of two major universities. From 1994 through 2002, he was president of Indiana University and also served as president at the University of Oregon from 1989 to 1994. Brand earned his B.S. in Philosophy from Rensselaer Polytech­nic Institute in 1964, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Roch­ester in 1967. Brand has served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, Association of Ameri­can Universities (AAU), and as board chair, 1999-2000; a member of the Board of Directors, 1992-97, and executive committee, 1994-97, of the American Council on Education (ACE); and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC), 1995-98. He served as a board member of the American Philosophical Association and of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, the umbrella organization of Internet2.