The basic disregard for the simplest ethical and social values is seen among collegiate student-athletes on an almost daily basis. Such negative national attention continues to erode the limited credibility of competitive athletics as a legitimate part of higher education. The NCAA has responded to the needs of collegiate student-athletes (and to a large extent the mounting criticism) with the development of the CHAMPS/Life Skills Program. The CHAMPS/Life Skills Program is without question an impressive, yet equally enormous, educational undertaking by the NCAA. Its stated goals and objectives are admirable (and perhaps achievable). However, no valid and reliable measure of the program's objectives currently exists, nor has there been any serious moral inquiry into the program's development. The current study was undertaken with these concerns in mind. Specifically, the purposes of this descriptive study were to develop a valid and reliable instrument to measure cognitive moral judgements; and to compare the cognitive moral judgements of general students and student-athletes at selected NCAA Division I institutions on issues of social responsibility, commonly addressed by CHAMPS/Life Skills Programs. Four hundred and fifteen subjects were utilized in data analysis. The convenience sample consisted of 202 general students and 213 student-athletes; 159 males and 256 females. A 5 x 2 x 3 x 3 Factorial Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) using the general linear model (GLM) was utilized to analyze the data. The basic differences (p < .05) noted between groups included: (1) females had significantly higher cognitive moral judgement scores than did males; (2) team sport athletes had significantly lower cognitive moral judgement scores than did non-athletes or individual sport athletes; and (3) revenue producing sport athletes had significantly lower cognitive moral judgement scores than did non-athletes or non-revenue producing sport athletes. These results support previous research concluding that competitive athletics, as currently practiced in America, negatively affects the moral reasoning/moral development of participants. Disturbingly, however, the present study finds that the lowered reasoning scores are not limited to the competitive context, but also appear on a measure of social responsibility.