The Faculty

Cedric Dempsey, Former NCAA Executive Director

Cedric Dempsey succeeded Dick Schultz as NCAA executive director (title later changed to president) in 1993 and served until the end of 2002; former athletic director at Pacific (1967-79), San Diego St. (1979), Houston (1979-82) and Arizona (1983-93).

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Robert Corran, Ph.D, Director of Athletics, University of Vermont

Dr. Robert Corran was named Director of Athletics at the University of Vermont on May 7, 2003. Wherever Corran has been, success has followed. In his first season at UVM, Corran implemented a comprehensive plan to boost coaches’ salaries and increase the amount of athletic scholarships from 82 to 124 by 2009; expanded student-athlete services including a major renovation of the Student-Athlete Academic Center, created the Victory Club, a department-wide fundraising vehicle; and updated the school’s athletic logo and mascot. He also engineered Vermont’s move to Hockey East and restructured the department through a comprehensive planning process involving coaches, staff and student-athletes. The restructuring included men’s golf, swimming, and tennis programs being eliminated and men’s track and field being reinstated as a varsity sport.

In 2004-05, Vermont saw its overall winning percentage of the varsity teams increase by over 100 points. Five teams were among the NCAA’s most improved teams in the country and the Catamounts won the America East Academic Cup with a 3.14 grade-point average, the highest in the 10-year history of the award. Athletic fundraising also increased to support a number of projects including renovations to Patrick Gymnasium and Gutterson Fieldhouse and the installation of UVM’s first artificial turf field for the field hockey and lacrosse programs. A number of new assistant coaching positions were created in several sports as part of the overall strategy to increase the program’s competitive success.

A former three-sport athlete at Ithaca College, Corran earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education from Ithaca in 1971, a Master of Science degree in education administration from Springfield College in 1978 and a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1979.