Membership E-Newsletter: October CoSIDA Board of Directors & Leadership Initiatives

Membership E-Newsletter: October CoSIDA Board of Directors & Leadership Initiatives


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To: CoSIDA Membership
Fr: Larry Dougherty, 2010-11 CoSIDA President; John Humenik, Executive Director; and Barb Kowal, Director of External Affairs
Re: Recap of CoSIDA Board of Directors and Divisional Leadership Initiatives for month of October

As we are all in the tail end of our fall seasons and transitioning to the winter one, we wanted to take this time to share some exciting CoSIDA news that has happened over the past month.


Membership Renewal: CoSIDA sets record

On the Oct. 14th CoSIDA Board of Directors conference call Secretary/Digest Editor Jeff Hodges reported that CoSIDA's membership for the 2010-11 year stood at a record 2,643. The previous record was 2,563 for the 2008-09 year and the membership for last year, 2009-10, was 2,497. For 2010-11 the CoSIDA membership, from a divisional standpoint, appears as follows: Division I (1379), Division II (371), Division III (451), NAIA (181), two-year institutions (31), Canadian (17), Affiliated (215).


Board Decision: Membership Dues for 2011-12

On Oct. 14th in a unanimous vote during their monthly conference call, the CoSIDA Board of Directors increased yearly membership dues, effective with the 2011-12 academic year, from $75 to $95. For associate members, dues will go from $80 to $105; student dues ($25.00) will remain the same. Even with the increase, CoSIDA's annual association membership dues remains one of only two in collegiate athletics - along with CEFMA (Collegiate Events and Facility Managers Association which was formed just two years ago) - to be below $100. All the other management groups in collegiate athletics have annual membership dues that range from $100 to $395. Two-thirds of the organizations have annual dues that stand at $150 or higher.


Directory Updates

With the membership renewal process significantly completed, Secretary Digest Editor Jeff Hodges (North Alabama) is updating and formatting the CoSIDA e-directory, taking the membership and school profiles which the Board requested be updated as part of the membership renewal process. This CoSIDA 2010-11 Directory will be available online and in a PDF format which can be downloaded. Jeff is hopeful to complete this process by early November. We will alert the membership when this is completed, and would then encourage each school to alert their media representatives of the e-directory status and/or distribute the PDF.


Committee Based

· Writing Contest
Contest Chair Wade Steinlage (William Penn) and Vice Chair Mark Adkins of Wartburg College are working with their assigned Board of Directors liaison, John Paquette (Big East Conference) to adjust deadlines for submission for this CoSIDA contest. The judging has been stretching into the summer due to late spring deadlines so they will likely come forward with a recommendation to advance the final deadline for submissions to late March. Any story that a SID would want to submit that was written after this deadline would then be eligible for submission the following March. They are also planning to finalize timelines/deadlines and get those to Barb Kowal so she can pass along to membership. This group is also looking for folks who want to judge and they are also approaching some retirees who might have the interest to read, evaluate and judge submissions for different award categories.

· Special Awards
Tam Flarup (Wisconsin), Chair of the Special Awards Committee, has finalized a checklist and timeline for the various CoSIDA awards to be presented in June 2011 during the Marco Island Convention. Membership information and nomination award criteria are found here: http://cosida.com/Awards/index.aspx . Nominations for Special Awards are open year-round. Please note that the Special Awards deadline for nominations is TUESDAY, JAN. 11 - a date significantly earlier than in previous years. This was done to provide more time to handle administrative and management aspects of the Special Awards programs. We encourage all CoSIDA members to nominate colleagues they believe deserve consideration for any of our Special Awards.


· Academic All-America
Capital One, via ESPN, has approached CoSIDA about possibly becoming the "entitlement rights holder" for the Academic All-America® programs beginning in 2011. Capital One, ESPN and Capital One's marketing agency - Fishbait - held several conference calls with Executive Director John Humenik in late September/ early October and Capital One then provided its initial proposal to take over the entitlement rights. Upon review by CoSIDA's officers and AAA leadership Humenik and CoSIDA President Larry Dougherty informed Capital One on October 4th that there were several elements to the proposal that were not acceptable in its current form and they requested that Capital One provide a second revised proposal. On Oct. 13, Capital One informed Humenik that they would submit a second proposal in early November for CoSIDA's consideration.

The 2010 fall Academic All-America® teams will be announced on the following dates:
Men's Soccer (University & College Division Teams) - Wed., Nov. 17
Women's Soccer (University & College Division Teams) - Thur., Nov. 18
Women's Volleyball (University & College Division Teams) - Mon., Nov. 22
Football (University and College Division Teams) - Tue., Nov. 23

Note: The AAA program is now called "ESPN Academic All-America"; no longer is it the "ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America" program.

· With the planned expansion of four AAA programs (DI, DII, DIII, and a fourth to be named to include NAIA, Canadian, and two-year schools) now a full go for the 2011-12 academic year, the AAA Committee leadership and CoSIDA divisional leadership from DI, DII, DIII and NAIA will hold joint talks and discussions about implementing the program for the next academic year. Much of the discussion will center on putting districts/regions together for each award division, districts that are unique and appropriate to that division instead of having one district footprint that is the same for all programs - which is what the AAA program now has.

· Mark Beckenbach (Ohio Wesleyan) is the CoSIDA AAA Committee's Associate Chair (Internal Ops) and point person with staff at SIDEARM (CoSIDA's website provider) as it relates to starting the enhancements and expansion to our online nomination and selection process. He will work with CoSIDA's divisional leadership groups in this regard.

· The Board and Academic All-America® Committee leadership remind CoSIDA members that CoSIDA's "Academic All-America®"mark is federally registered. As such, CoSIDA members must help the Board and AAA Committee monitor the wrongful use of this registered trademark. If you see any other organizations, including coaching associations, using this registered trademark, immediately contact AAA Chair Dick Lipe (Bentley University) at rlipe@bentley.edu and CoSIDA Executive Director John Humenik (jhumenik@bellsouth.net). We will have our legal counsel, Collegiate Images, follow up with a letter regarding infringement of our federally registered mark and they will be asked to "cease and desist" from future use of that mark. Many times during the year we find that our own membership is using "Academic All-America" in releases that they prepare for student-athletes receiving academic achievement awards from other organizations - when in fact those organizations refer to their awards as "All-Academic," "Scholar-Athlete," "Academic All-Star," etc. We ask that CoSIDA members be cognizant of only using "Academic All-America®" in relation to CoSIDA's program. There are NO exceptions.



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