The Purposes of the NCAA

The National Collegiate Athletic Association's purposes are:

To initiate, stimulate and improve intercollegiate athletics programs for student-athletes and to promote and develop educational leadership, physical fitness, athletics excellence and athletics participation as a recreational pursuit.
To uphold the principle of institutional control of, and responsibility for, all intercollegiate sports in conformity with the constitution and bylaws of the Association.
To encourage its members to adopt eligibility rules to comply with satisfactory standards of scholarship, sportsmanship and amateurism.
To formulate, copyright and publish rules of play governing intercollegiate athletics.
To preserve intercollegiate athletics records.
To supervise the conduct of, and to establish eligibility standards for, regional and national athletics events under the auspices of the Association.
To legislate, through bylaws or by resolutions of a Convention, upon any subject of general concern to the members related to the administration of intercollegiate athletics.
To study in general all phases of competitive intercollegiate athletics and establish standards whereby the colleges and universities of the United States can maintain their athletics programs on a high level.

Promote student-athletes and college sports through public awareness.
Protect student-athletes through standards of fairness and integrity.
Prepare student-athletes for lifetime leadership.
Provide student-athletes and college sports with the funding to help meet these goals.