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The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) is an NCAA Division III athletic conference, consisting of eleven highly selective liberal arts colleges and universities located in New England and New York. Often referred to as the "Little Ivies", most of the schools have competed against one another since the 19th century. The idea for such an athletic conference originated with an agreement among Amherst College, Bowdoin College, Wesleyan University and Williams College drafted in 1955.〔http://www.nescac.com/about/about〕 In 1971 Bates College, Colby College, Hamilton College, Middlebury College, Trinity College, Tufts University and Union College joined on and NESCAC was officially formed. Today's sustaining members include all the original members but Union, which withdrew in 1977〔(http://www.union.edu/Presidents/bonner.php ), retrieved October 1, 2008. "()n March 1977, a letter from the president of Williams College brought to light evidence that, a year earlier, Harkness had violated the NESCAC recruiting rules and then lied about the matter when confronted by President Bonner. Bonner immediately suspended Harkness, and offered his own resignation to the Board of Trustees at its April meeting. The trustees reinstated Harkness, refused to accept the president’s resignation—reappointing him for one year—and voted to terminate Union’s membership in NESCAC."〕 and was replaced by Connecticut College in 1982. ==Mission== NESCAC schools share a similar philosophy for intercollegiate athletics. The Conference was created out of a concern for the direction of intercollegiate athletic programs and remains committed to keeping a proper perspective on the role of sport in higher education. Member institutions believe athletic teams should be representative of school's entire student bodies and hew to NCAA Division III admissions and financial policies prohibiting athletic scholarships while awarding financial aid solely on the basis of need.〔 Due to the prestigious reputations of its member schools, the NESCAC is able to attract many of the most athletically and intellectually gifted student-athletes in the country. NESCAC members stress that intercollegiate athletic programs should operate in harmony with the educational mission of each institution. Schools are committed to maintaining common boundaries to keep athletics strong yet in proportion to their overall academic mission. Presidents of each NESCAC institution control intercollegiate athletic policy. Conference tenets are usually more restrictive than those of the NCAA Division III regarding season length, number of contests and post-season competition. The schools are all well-regarded academically. The numbers in the table below represent the rank of the institution in the U.S. News & World Report list of "National Liberal Arts Colleges". It should be noted, however, that Tufts' rank represents its standing among the USNWR "National Universities" list. *This number represents the standing of Tufts among 'national universities' as defined by USNWR. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New England Small College Athletic Conference」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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