Your Faculty Athletics Representative:
- Serves as a member of the athletics board
- Informs the faculty on important matters related to athletics as they affect faculty and student-athletes on the national, conference, and institutional levels
- Reports to faculty governance the admission and academic progress of student-athletes

- Encourages faculty participation in setting the institution's position on proposed NCAA legislation
- Solicits from faculty and staff student-athletes nominees for NCAA scholarship and awards
FAR Responsibilities Include:
- Ensuring the academic integrity of the athletics program
The FAR should ascertain the academic integrity of the intercollegiate athletics program by reviewing and reporting on the academic preparation and performance of student-athletes.
- Ensuring institutional control of the athletics program
- The FAR should maintain oversight of compliance-related activities performed with the athletics department and coordination of the compliance-related activities of the campus units located outside of the athletics department.
- The FAR should be directly involved in decisions that affect the fiscal viability of athletics programs.
- Ensuring a quality student-athlete experience.
- The FAR should be involved in the monitoring and maintenance of the personal well being of student-athletes.
- The FAR should serve as an independent source of support and advice to student-athletes and his or all constituencies in the institution should recognize her activities.
Strategic Plan for the FAR
- Support student-athlete's well being, achievement of academic success to the promotion of exemplary conduct.
- Complete an annual survey that measures how well student-athletes feel they are being supported by faculty, students, and staff.
- Collaborate with the coaching staff to increase the overall GPA of their student-athletes by a designated percentage based on their current student-athlete's overall GPA performanc
Contact

Dr. Dwight W. HeasterÂ
Faculty Athlete Representative, Athletics Department
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Business Department
239 Louis Bennett HallÂ
304-462-6256Â
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