Arne Duncan, who resigned as President Obama’s secretary of education about a month ago, has accepted a job on the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, the commission announced.
Mr Duncan and Treasury Sec Tim Geithner team up for financial education, 2009. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
He served as the captain of the men’s basketball team when he attended Harvard University, but his basketball career continued long after that. From 1987 to 1991, he played professionally in Australia, where he also tutored children who were wards of the state, the Knight Commission noted.
In the education field, he served about seven years as US secretary of education from January 2009 to December 2015. Prior to that, he was CEO of the Chicago Public Schools for eight years and ran the nonprofit Ariel Education Initiative, which provided college scholarships for some inner-city children.
He said this in a news release:
I’m delighted to join the Knight Commission, which has done so much to foster and protect athletics and academics. But we have a lot more to do to protect the integrity of college sports and strike a better balance between athletics and education. The Knight Commission must continue to help lead that urgent work.
The commission also welcomed new members Paul Tagliabue, a former commissioner of the NFL, and Anna Spangler Nelson, a member of the governing board at the University of North Carolina, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.
