Concerning integrity, Hyman said, “That is not very complicated: you do it the right way or you don’t do it the right way. That is playing within the rules, that is playing within the competitive rules, that is playing within the institutional rules, that is playing within the conference rules, that is playing within the NCAA rules.”

Hyman’s other components of a successful athletics program include making sure student athletes have an enriching educational experience and play to their potential. “I am asking them to do the best they can possibly do,” Hyman said. “If that happens, then we are going to be successful more times than not. I have told the coaches that I’ll take a loss if this allows our student athletes to make sure they have a good experience.”

Education and fulfilling students’ academic goals also are important, “because, really, their physical talents will only carry them for a certain amount of time; their mental capacity will carry them for the rest of their lives,” Hyman said.

Creating teammates from team members and getting positive visibility also are goals. “You get positive visibility; you don’t create positive visibility,” Hyman said. “I ask all of our programs to be invested in the life of the community. I want to teach values to young people—to whom much is given much is required. A lot of them are very blessed to have some God-given ability; so, we want to teach them to give back into the community.

“We are in a business of mentoring, we are in the business of role modeling, and we are in the business of nurturing. We want to help develop these young people when they become contributors to society.”

Hyman discussed several initiatives the Athletics Department is planning this year, including:
• comparing and contrasting USC’s academic student development center with other SEC schools
• completing a long-range master plan for facilities
• upgrading computers and information technology
• evaluating the donor ticketing system
• adding a women’s sport
• reviewing Athletics Department policies.

In other matters discussed at Faculty Senate, President Sorensen announced that alumnus Robert C. McNair has agreed to increase the award for McNair Scholars to $14,500 per student. The McNair scholarship is the University’s most prestigious award for out-of-state students. Sorensen also reported that the number of visitors to the University’s Open House programs has increased sharply over the past year.

Provost Becker updated dean searches, announcing that candidates for the dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology might be on campus for interviews as early as December. The search committee for the dean of the School of Law has been finalized. Becker and former law school dean John E. Montgomery are co-chairs. A complete list of committee members is online on the provost’s Web page.

Becker also addressed the 2005–06 budget of the College of Arts and Sciences. The budget is balanced, he said, and has grown by $20 million compared to the total budgets of the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Science and Mathematics five years ago. He noted that although the budget has increased, expenses have grown faster than revenues in the past two years.

Senators also approved a resolution supporting preventive care benefits as a part of the state’s insurance program.

The final Faculty Senate meeting of the fall semester will be at 3 p.m. Dec. 7 in the School of Law Auditorium. Live streaming video of the meeting will be available on the Web. Go to www.sc.edu/faculty/meetings.shtml to log on. Archived streaming video of the Nov. 2 meeting also is available on the site.

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