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All 11 of the current CoSIDA Committees submitted 2009-10 goals and objectives to the Board of Directors, and that entire list can be downloaded (PDF) below and found on CoSIDA.com's main page under "2009-10 Committee Objectives."
2009-10 Committee Stated Goals and Objectives (PDF)
2009-10 Committee Chairs/Members Listed by District (PDF)
If you are interested in serving on a committee, please contact Debbie Copp (University of Oklahoma) who is chair of the Committee on Committees dcopp@ou.edu
CoSIDA Committees (11) - Goals & Objectives
Committee on Committees, Academic All-America, Ethics (PREVIEWED EARLIER)
Allied Organizations, Goodwill, Job Seekers, Membership Services (PREVIEWED EARLIER HERE) New Media/Technology (PREVIEW BELOW)
Publications Contest (PREVIEW BELOW)Scholarship Committee (PREVIEW BELOW)Writing Contest (PREVIEW BELOW) New Media/Technology
Chair- Bob Lowe (Greensboro College)
Board Liaison- Joe Browning (UNC Wilmington), Barb Kowal (Dir. of External Affairs)
The New Media/Technology Committee offers its future purpose with respect to the new strategic plan and the “seven core strategic vision guiding focus principles.”
I. Advancing the profession
In its fundamental purpose, the New Media/Technology Committee seeks to use our technological expertise to advance the profession in this rapidly changing time. II. Advancing the professionalPerhaps even more importantly, the New Media/Technology Committee wants to offer technology solutions that optimize time for the SID. In doing so, the SID can promote his/her institution better and even result in more free time for athletics communication professional. An objective of the committee is to publish 10 articles this year. Additionally, we seek to add a new feature—“Tips from the SID” (See below)--that will also benefit SIDs. III. Advancing and strengthening the professional organization/societyThe purpose of - and recent history of the New Media/Technology Committee - has positively impacted CoSIDA and the profession as a whole. This should continue in the future. IV. Establishing a prominent national leadership position within the collegiate athletics communityNational SIDA advisory boards. These newly formed boards mandate “technology chairs” and underscore the value of the technology committee and its work. Published writings by committee members have helped college athletics as a whole and those in other professions. Technology committee member Phil Ticknor’s successful SIDBoard continues to be a cutting-edge resource for the profession. The New Media/Technology Committee chair and a vice chair continue to serve on D3SIDA and D2SIDA. V. Image building and enhancing within the college athletics community This will be a major focus of our committee this year. “Tips from the SID” is directly targeted at assisting colleagues at our institutions. VI. Image building and advancing the profession and its professionals What we currently do - write articles that appear on CoSIDA.com and the Digest, conduct sessions and table topics at our convention - certainly do this. The addition of “Tips from the SID” will enhance our already prominent role. VII. Ensure that proposed organizational objectives and tactics do/will support the strategic plans and goals The New Media/Technology Committee is fully supportive of the strategic plan and its objectives.
SPECIFIC GOALS/OBJECTIVES
-Instituting “Tips from the SID”This will be a huge undertaking that will have a positive result. We expect to generate about 100 ”Tips from the SID” this first year. - Helping to clean up the logo databaseVice chair Derek Smolik has been particularly interested in this issue. This issue will require extensive planning and coordination. - Informing the Director of External Affairs on member activities, accolades and new media news and trends. Director of External Affairs Barb Kowal has already instituted a Twitter account with links to stories that might interest athletic communication professionals. We will forward similar new media/technology writings of importance. - Assisting With 2010 Convention PlanningThe committee will assist with staffing and ideas for panels and table topics for the 2010 Convention in San Francisco. - Organizing Regularly Scheduled WebinarsLast year’s CoSIDA webinar on Twitter was well received. The committee would like to take a lead role in developing topics for possible webinars to be conducted on a regular basis for the membership.
Publications Contest
Chair- Chad Grubbs (Hardin-Simmons)
Board Liaison- Anne Abicht (St. Cloud State University)
Changes that we decided on in San Antonio included:
• Allowing PDF versions of media guides to be submitted. They have to be printed out and mailed in and must conform to all printed media guide contest restrictions as far as color is concerned. This is in direct response to many schools going away from printed guides; yet, we also don’t want judges to have to go on-line to judge contests at this point.
• We are going to test run one contest this year of judging the media guides on-line to ensure we are prepared if the printed media guide does go away to still honor the excellent work of our profession.
• We clarified the rules on where books that are men’s and women’s of a sport combined should go, and agreed they could be in one contest or the other - but the same book can’t compete for two separate contests.
• We decided to break up the poster contests with a specific contest for football, basketball and baseball to go along with the fall, winter and spring contests that we have now.
• We also adjusted the deadline of the winter contest from Feb. 15th to Jan. 15th. The rationale for the change was Feb. 15 is the absolute busiest time as far as sports crossover. Our basketball and wrestling postseasons and spring sports start all are around Feb. 15. Additionally, all of the winter contest books should be out by Jan. 15.
Stated goals for 2009-10 include:
• Chair/Vice-Chair/Coordinator Communications: This has to be done to make sure we don’t have contests not get judged. It is a personal goal to have every contest result completed prior to the CoSIDA Convention. We will not have a contest that does not get judged. How can we advance the profession if we can’t communicate amongst ourselves?
• Improve Efficiency: This was enhanced greatly with the excel form. The grade sheets with judges’ comments were sent back via e-mail this year, eliminating a mailing step. We are adding a section on the judges’ forms where they can type their own comments. This past year the coordinator had to spend time retyping the judges’ comments on to the form that went back to the entrants. This will eliminate a step for coordinators.
• Make Awards a Big Deal: Send an e-mail letter to the president and athletic director of each contest winner. Make the campus aware of the good work being done by a usually underappreciated member of the staff.
• Be Prepared to Adjust to New Legislation Regarding Media Guides: We have to be able to adjust, possibly on the fly, on new media guide legislation that may come. We are doing the testing of some books being judged online. This will let us be prepared for next year when printed media guides may be a thing of the past.
Scholarship Committee
Chair- Carol Hudson, Jr. (Old Dominion)
Board Liaison- Geoff Hassard (SUNY-Oneonta)
MISSION STATEMENT: Along with the Academic All-American program, this is CoSIDA’s most prominent.
The CoSIDA Scholarships Committee is designed to help maintain the future of the profession, helping outstanding students achieve their goal of a sports information career.
The committee recognizes potential through Graduate and Undergraduate scholarships, providing funds for students to continue their education at each level. Currently, two Graduate (each $5,000) and two Undergraduate Scholarships ($2,500 apiece) are awarded each year.
These programs also provide instant benefits for the sports information profession, as the award-winners gain experience in a sports information environment by assisting in current-day operations at the respective institutions. Many former scholarship winners currently serve on the committee, representing the success the committee has had over the years.
The Committee also provides assistance for sports information offices that do not have sufficient staffs to accommodate the increasing responsibilities often placed on them. Through the Graduate Internship Grant, CoSIDA provides funds for sports information offices to hire a graduate assistant on a one-year basis, hoping the success of the program can help the schools demonstrate the need for additional assistance in the future. The creation of these positions and internships is another way to help continue the growth of the profession.
2009-10 STATED GOALS
1. Regionalize the membership on the committee to add more balance in the membership from each region.
2. Having the applications filled out on line, and develop a way for the committee members to vote online as well. This takes mailing out of the process. It also streamlines the process.
3. On the graduate internship application, make a change on item No. 1 from “list of all paid Employees” to “list of all paid sports information employees…”
4. Increase funding to the three scholarships -possibly through corporate sponsorships.
The graduate internship from $10,000 to $12,000; the two undergraduate scholarships from $2,500 each, to $3,000 each; the two Post-Graduate Scholarship scholarships would move from $5,000 each to $7,000 each.
5. Send reminders (e-mail) to the membership on dates for applications, especially to the Division II, III, and NAIA schools.
BEYOND THIS YEAR
1. Establish a scholarship for the child of a sports information professional, considering most SID’s don’t make a great deal of money. The committee feels the increased funding of the current programs is priority one.
Writing ContestChair- Dennis Switzer (South Atlantic Conference) Board Liaison- John Paquette (Big East Conference)
I. Improved Timeline: For 2007-08 and 2008-09, the committee has not met the published timeline and failed to meet deadlines. This has resulted in the final results being published later than expected. The holdups have been primarily at the district level. Having one district coordinator return the material late holds up the national process, pushing the entire judging process behind schedule. The primary goal for 2009-10 will be to complete the district and national judging on time and have the results released no later than mid-August, 2010.
II. Improved participation from committee members: In the past, eight committee members were used to coordinate the judging for the eight districts. If there were more than eight members assigned to the committee, those people were not used effectively. As a result, those committee members lost interest and either fell off the committee or were not prepared to coordinate if selected the following year.
This year, with a committee list of 17, the plan is to incorporate everyone by splitting up the assignments. Rather than have all entries from one region sent to one coordinator, this year “Athlete Profile” entries, traditionally the largest category, will be broken off.
This may cause some confusion on the part of the entrants, who will have to mail entries to two different coordinators if entering in “Athlete Profile” and any other category, but this change should have a positive impact in other areas. Every committee member will now be responsible for coordinating judging and will feel part of the committee. Also, the districts with large number of overall entries - Districts 1, 2 and 3 - will be able to go smoother and quicker. Judges will have fewer stories to read and this should speed up the overall process.
III. Continue recognizing coordinators and judges with gifts from CoSIDA: For the past two years, the Writing Contest Committee has been able to send gifts to the coordinators and their judges. This has been done by working in conjunction with the publications contest coordinator and adding another 40 to the total order of gifts they purchase for their coordinators and judges. That expense has been approved by the Board in the past.
For this year, with the expanded judging planned for the writing contest, that number would need to increase to 68 (17 x 4). If the Board continues to approve this expenditure, we ask that our allotment be increased to 68.
IV. Increased awareness and increased entries: The total number of entries increased from 268 in 2007 to 388 in 2008. The 2009 numbers are incomplete, but with seven of the eight districts reporting, the number was 311. It is safe to estimate at least 350 total entries.
The committee has tried to be more visible with entry information in the Digest and on the website at least a month or more before the entry deadline. The winning stories have also received prominent display in both the Digest and on the website as well. I believe this has had a direct impact on the spike in entries. Hopefully, the change in splitting up the voting does not have a negative impact on the number of entries. I would like to see the total entries surpass 400 this year.