1. Myles Neal Brand was a philosopher and university administrator who served as the 14th president of the University of Oregon, the 16th president of Indiana University, and the fourth president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States.
In one of his major papers, Intentional Actions and Plans, Myles Brand defended the notion of intentional action as "action performed in following a plan", approximating an initial formal definition for the concept as follows:.
However, Myles Brand is dissatisfied as he believes the definition "serves to delineate the reach of intentional action, but not its extent".
Myles Brand's family moved to Jericho, New York but he was bused to Carle Place High School as Jericho did not have a high school of its own.
Myles Brand played lacrosse and basketball as a college freshman.
Myles Brand earned his Bachelor of Science degree in philosophy from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1964, and his Ph.
Myles Brand died eight months later, at age 67, on September 16,2009.
Myles Brand was president of Indiana University from 1994 through 2002; the school is a nine-campus institution of higher education with nearly 100,000 students, 17,000 employees and a budget of $3.4 billion.
Myles Brand oversaw the consolidation of the IU Medical Center Hospitals and Methodist Hospital to form Clarian Health Partners in 1997.
Myles Brand may be best known for terminating men's head basketball coach Bob Knight in 2000.
Myles Brand underscored the need for the academic community to acknowledge and address the disparities that exist between intercollegiate athletics and the true mission of higher education.
In 2003, roughly two years after he fired Bob Knight, Myles Brand left Indiana University to become president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, located in Indianapolis.
Myles Brand was the first college president to head the NCAA.
Myles Brand took the helm of the NCAA during a time when it was criticized for not valuing academics and education.
Myles Brand vowed to improve the overall experience for student-athletes, helping them attain both an education and increasing postgraduate opportunities.
Myles Brand had warned that the "arms race" among upper-echelon schools is the biggest dilemma confronting the NCAA's future success.
Myles Brand established a system for tracking each team's graduation rates, and brought attention to the fact that men's basketball teams had lower-than-average graduation rates.