Tim Day - Faculty Athletics Representative - Staff Directory

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Tim Day

Title:
Faculty Athletics Representative
Email:
Phone:
515-294-7100

Tim Day, who has served as ISU’s Faculty Athletics Representative to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Big 12 Conference since 2010, has been a Department of Biomedical Sciences faculty member within Iowa State’s College of Veterinary Medicine since 2000. He was promoted to the rank of Professor in 2010 and University Professor in 2019.

Day, only the eighth individual to serve as Iowa State’s FAR, has been active in the campus community since his arrival in Ames more than 20 years ago. He has had more than 50 committee/council appointments during his Iowa State career, including service as President of ISU’s Faculty Senate during the 2017-18 academic year. Day has served as the Big 12’s representative to the NCAA Council, was a member of the Big 12 Commissioner’s search committee and served as President of the Faculty Athletics Representatives Association (FARA), the collective voice of all faculty athletics representatives within the three NCAA divisions, during the 2021-22 academic year.

A 1988 graduate of Kansas State University with a bachelor of science degree in Biology, Day went on to earn three degrees from Michigan State University—a bachelor of science in Education and a master of science in Zoology, both in 1990, and a PhD in Pharmacology & Toxicology and Neuroscience in 1993.

Iowa State’s Faculty Athletics Representatives
S.W. Beyer, 1908-1930
H.D. Bergman, 1931-1959
Maurice Soults, 1960-1970
John P. Mahlstede, 1971-1987
Norman Broyles, 1987-1997
Barb Licklider, 1987-2002
Paula Morrow, 2002-2010
Tim Day, 2010-present