San Diego Hall of Champions Sports Museum

The NCAA’s core purpose is to govern competition in a fair, safe, equitable and sportsmanlike manner, and to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student-athlete is paramount.
To initiate, stimulate and improve intercollegiate athletics programs for student athletes and to promote and develop educational leadership, physical fitness, athletics excellence and athletics participation as a recreational pursuit.
To uphold the principle of institutional control of, and responsibility for, all intercollegiate sports in conformity with the constitution and bylaws of the Association.
To encourage its members to adopt eligibility rules to comply with satisfactory standards of scholarship, sportsmanship and amateurism.
To formulate, copyright and publish rules of play governing intercollegiate athletics.
To preserve intercollegiate athletics records.
To supervise the conduct of, and to establish eligibility standards for, regional and national athletics events under the auspices of the Association.
To cooperate with other amateur organizations in promoting and conducting national and international athletics events.
To legislate, through bylaws or by resolutions, any subject of general concern to the members related to the administration of intercollegiate athletics.

Purposes of the NCAA