May 25, 2010 8:51:18 AM

The Black Coaches & Administrators will recognize the late NCAA President Myles Brand at the organization's annual convention and will have one of its signature awards renamed in his honor. 

The ceremony will be June 4 at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Clearwater, Florida. Peg Brand, an associate professor in the departments of philosophy and women's studies at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, will accept the award. 

BCA officials will honor Brand, who died September 16, with the 2010 BCA Administrator of the Year award for his support for diversity and inclusion within the NCAA and his relationship with the BCA during his tenure as NCAA president. After this year, the BCA will rename the tribute the "BCA Myles Brand Administrator of the Year Award."

 What Myles stood for and believed in with regard to diversity and inclusion is the blueprint for administrators to follow," BCA Executive Director Floyd Keith said. "He was involved with BCA from the very beginning of his tenure as NCAA president."

NCAA Interim President Jim Isch recognized Brand's role in elevating diversity within the Association.

"Myles was certainly a proponent of diversity and he often voiced his opinion in private and public settings regarding the need for more diverse representation in the coaching and administrative ranks of intercollegiate athletics," Isch said. "Like the BCA, Myles knew that if diversity issues were never addressed, then diversity issues would never be resolved.  

"Naming Myles Brand the BCA Administrator of the Year and renaming the award in his honor is such a fitting tribute to a man who many times stood alongside the BCA in its ongoing advance of diversity in athletics."  

Charlotte Westerhaus, NCAA vice president of diversity and inclusion, called the BCA's recognition of Brand "a fitting recognition for his stellar leadership and staunch advocacy for enhancing the career opportunities for coaches and administrators within the BCA and intercollegiate athletics."