The president of the N.C.A.A., Mark Emmert, received a contract extension on Tuesday, a striking vote of confidence in a longtime executive as the governing body of college sports is under intense scrutiny and facing widespread demands for changes.
The association’s Board of Governors, whose membership largely includes university presidents and chancellors, voted during a private meeting on Tuesday to lengthen Emmert’s deal, which will now run through the end of 2025. Although the N.C.A.A. said in a statement that the vote was unanimous, it announced little about the terms of Emmert’s revised contract.
But the vote will come as a surprise in many quarters of the college sports industry.