Pitt–Bradford’s Tony Gaskew appointed to NCAA committee

Gaskew in front of a brick wall

Tony Gaskew, professor of criminal justice at the Pitt–Bradford, has been appointed to a three-year term on the NCAA Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee, effective September 2019.

The 18-member committee is responsible for reviewing issues and promoting NCAA programs and policies related to student athletes, coaches and administrators who are ethnic minorities, LGBTQ or who have disabilities. It was established in 1991 to foster racial equality and diversity in collegiate athletics.

Gaskew also is director of the criminal justice program and founding director of the Prison Education Program at Pitt–Bradford. He is the senior faculty advisor to the Pitt–Bradford Office of the President in the area of athletics.

He is a graduate of the NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative Fellows Institute, and since 2016, Gaskew has served as the campus’ faculty athletics representative to the NCAA. As such, he oversees its institutional responsibilities in the NCAA’s three broad areas of academic integrity — academic reform initiatives, institutional control and student-athlete well-being.