Sports
Southern California
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Mission Statement
Established in 1915, the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Division III since 1972, identifies its mission as follows:
The member institutions of the SCIAC are committed to the
fostering of the ideals of amateur sports within an environment of
high academic standards. The members of the conference value
the ways in which athletic competition and the development of
physical skills and ideals of sportsmanship can be seen as
supporting the intellectual and social growth of their
students. It encourages a vision of intercollegiate
competition that emphasizes and takes advantage of the close
proximity of its institutions, their similarity in missions, and
their shared perspectives on education. Conference members
place their emphasis on fully integrating their student-athletes
into their student bodies and into all aspects of student life, on
the participants in athletics rather than spectators, on the
development of sportsmanship, on equity for genders in opportunity
and support, on equity for programs in opportunity and support, on
the support for ethnic and gender diversity, and on regional,
in-season, and conference competition. Conference members
believe that their ends in this area can be attained without
excessive commitment of resources and support each other in that
goal. Conference members have a long history of national
prominence in athletics and national championship competition, and
always aspire to compete at the highest levels. However,
conference emphasis will always be on the competitive experience
most broadly understood as being of benefit to the widest number of
its students, not just those who can compete at the national and
international level. As members of the NCAA, Division III,
the conference and its institutions strive to be leaders within
that organization and the wider collegiate community in asserting,
maintaining, and establishing those principles and all they imply.