SUMMARY
OF ACTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS
NCAA DIVISION III MANAGEMENT COUNCIL
MEETING
January 10-11, 2003
NCAA DIVISION III PRESIDENTS COUNCIL
MEETING
January 12, 2003
NCAA DIVISION III POST-CONVENTION
MANAGEMENT COUNCIL MEETING
January 14, 2003 (Attachment
A)
2003 CONVENTION VOTING RESULTS (Attachment B)
[NOTE:
SUPPLEMENT NUMBERS REFER TO THE MANAGEMENT COUNCIL SUPPLEMENT, UNLESS
OTHERWISE NOTED.]
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SUPPLEMENT
NO. 1 |
Altstadt
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ISSUE:
Division
III Initiative Grant Program Summary (2002-04). |
R. Collins
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Management
Council Action: |
Ford
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Reviewed
the 2002-03 and 2003-04 initiative summaries, including reallocations. |
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Presidents
Council Action: |
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Endorsed the initiative grant program summary. |
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SUPPLEMENT
NO. 2 |
Ferris
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ISSUE: Institutional Self-Study Guide (ISSG)
Change. |
McGlynn
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Management
Council Action: |
Nilsson
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Referred the recommendation that the Division III Membership Committee strengthen the
gender-equity component in the ISSG to the Membership Committee,
noting that the committee should consider the addition of a question related
to whether an institutional plan is already in place. |
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ISSUE:
Coaching Academy Concept. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Accepted the information that the committee supports the
concept of developing a coaching academy, in partnership with other
interested parties, for the purpose of helping to train, mentor, develop and
retain female coaches. The
Council also noted the importance of working with coaches? associations, the
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, junior college athletics
associations and high school associations. |
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Presidents
Council Action: |
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Endorsed the Management Council?s action. |
Sweet
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ISSUE:
Secretary of Education?s Commission on Opportunity in Athletics. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Accepted the information that the committee had a discussion with Ted Leland, co-chair of the
Secretary of Education?s Commission on Opportunity in Athletics, regarding
the work of the commission. The CWA
developed the following statement regarding Title IX: ?The CWA strongly supports equal access
and opportunity for men and women in intercollegiate athletics.? The committee strongly supports Title IX
as written. The committee suggests
the following five actions are needed to strengthen Title IX: 1. More education at all levels about the law; 2. Consistent interpretation of the law by the Office of
Civil Rights? (OCR) regional offices; 3. Stronger enforcement of the law; 4. Greater understanding of the flexibility of prong three of
the three-part test; and 5. Greater awareness and understanding that each prong of the
three-part test stands alone as a viable compliance tool. Also accepted the information that the
committee endorses the document, ?Title IX Athletics Policies Issues and Data
for Education Decision Makers,? produced by the National Coalition for Women
and Girls in Education. |
Sweet
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ISSUE: Title
IX ? Interest Assessment Component. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Accepted
the information that the committee had a discussion with Athena
Yiamouyiannis, executive director of the National Association for Girls and
Women in Sport, regarding the ongoing work of the Secretary of Education?s
Commission on Opportunity in Athletics, to discuss prong three of Title IX,
accommodating the interests and abilities of female athletes. The Council
noted that education and information regarding prong three is needed,
including better access to and understanding of interest assessment tools. |
Boggan
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ISSUE:
NCAA
National Office Gender-Equity Plan. |
Sweet
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Management Council Action: |
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Accepted the information that the
committee received a draft of the NCAA national office gender-equity plan,
which is anticipated to be final by January 2003. The committee endorsed the plan and requested continued reports
be provided to the committee as the plan is implemented. |
Boggan
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ISSUE:
Research on
Role of Senior Woman Administrators. |
Sweet
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Management Council Action: |
Ferris
McGlynn Nilsson |
Accepted the information that the committee reviewed information regarding a study
planned by a university professor on the role of senior woman
administrators. The committee
expressed interest in this research and will request the author of the study
provide the committee with the results. |
Fagan
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ISSUE:
Mixed-Sport
Sponsorships/Championships. |
Krah
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Management Council Action: |
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Accepted the information that the committee discussed
issues surrounding mixed-sports sponsorship and consideration of
participation opportunities for females, particularly the application of
current legislation and championships policies to the sports of rifle and Nordic
skiing. The staff provided additional
information and the committee recommends no changes. |
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ISSUE:
Review of
2002-03 Sport Sponsorship. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Accepted the information that the committee reviewed the
2002-03 sports sponsorship numbers, including the number of institutions
sponsoring each emerging sport for women. |
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ISSUE:
Woman of
the Year (WOTY) Dinner and Title IX Seminar. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Accepted the information
that the committee received an update on the WOTY dinner and the Title IX
seminar. The Title IX seminar will be
conducted April 28 and 29, 2003, in La Jolla, California. The WOTY dinner was conducted November 2. |
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ISSUE: Definition
of Sport. |
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Management
Council Action: |
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Accepted the information
that the committee compared the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil
Rights? and the CWA?s definitions of sport.
It noted that there are some distinct differences between the two
definitions. The committee asked its
outreach subcommittee to consider whether the number of scheduled
competitions currently set at five is appropriate. It was suggested the subcommittee consider broadening the
language to note that five competitions is the absolute minimum and that more
contests may be required depending on the activity and the minimum number of
contests required in each sport by sports sponsorship requirements. The committee will review the
subcommittee?s recommendation in January. |
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AW ? WALTER BYERS SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE |
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The Management Council received an oral report. |
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SUPPLEMENT
NO. 3 AW ? COMMITTEE ON SPORTSMANSHIP AND ETHICAL CONDUCT |
Berst
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ISSUE: Amendment
to the NCAA Sportsmanship Award. |
Brown, J.
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Management
Council Action: |
DeBauche
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Approved the recommendation to amend the criteria
and selection process for the NCAA Sportsmanship Award as follows: (a) eliminate the noteworthy feat as a
nomination criterion and indicate that teams and administrators are no longer
eligible to receive the award; (b) designate conference offices or commissioners as
nominators for the award; (c) request each conference to nominate one male
and female student-athlete from among its membership; (d) request that
independent institutions nominate one male and female student-athlete
directly to the national office [Note:
A subcommittee of former committee members will select one male and
female student-athlete for each division from the pool of nominees from
independent institutions. The
selected candidates from the independent schools will vie for the award with
those nominated by the conferences.]; and (e) the committee shall select a
male and female student-athlete from each division as award winners (six
total). |
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Presidents
Council Action: |
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Endorsed the Management Council?s action. |
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ISSUE: Discussion
of Sportsmanship on Campus. |
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Management
Council Action: |
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The Council recommended that the committee develop a plan or process to
assist athletics administrators in being proactive in promoting sportsmanship
for athletics departments in response to the research about integrating
sessions on sportsmanship, ethical conduct and gambling to mandatory
on-campus meetings with coaches and student-athletes. |
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Presidents
Council Action: |
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Endorsed the Management Council?s action. |
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ISSUE: Gambling Update.
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Management Council Action: |
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Accepted the information that a report was received
on the progress of federal legislation that would curb gambling on
intercollegiate athletics, a summation of penalties and reinstatement
decisions for violations of the gambling legislation (Bylaw 10.3). |
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ISSUE: Public Service Announcements on Sportsmanship. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Accepted the information that the committee reviewed
two public service announcements on sportsmanship that were created by the
University of Missouri, Columbia. The
committee believed these public service announcements could serve as models
for the Association. |
Klossner
Wilfert |
ISSUE: Endorsement of Supplement Manufacturers by Association Coaches
and Playboy All-American Team.
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Cromer
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Management Council Action: |
Dickman
Stallman
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Accepted
the information that the committee forwarded a memorandum to the NCAA
Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports Committee and the NCAA
Committee on Women?s Athletics encouraging them to support the committee?s
concerns about two situations that send negative messages to
student-athletes. One involves a Division
I head football coach who has endorsed a supplement manufacturer (Met-Rx)
that produces banned and non-banned products. The other is the committee?s concern that NCAA institutions
allow their student-athletes to attend preseason Playboy All-American team
festivities at the Playboy mansion (football, men?s basketball). The committee cites Playboy?s demeaning
portrayal of women as a student-athlete welfare concern. |
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ISSUE: National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics
Director's Award Cup. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Accepted
the information that the committee determined that developing objective criteria
to measure or score sportsmanship for an institution would be difficult and
elected not to make any recommendations.
The committee directed the staff to continue to gather information on
methods to add academic performance as a category for the award. |
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ISSUE: Committee Poster. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Accepted
the information that the committee agreed on the layout for a new
sportsmanship poster that will picture two small children watching a collage
of college athletes in action with the caption, ?Be a hero. Little eyes are watching.? The Council noted that
the collage also should include coaches. |
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AW ? RESEARCH COMMITTEE |
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The Management Council received an oral report. |
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AW ? POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP |
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The Management Council received an oral report. |
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SUPPLEMENT
NO. 4 AW ? OLYMPIC SPORTS LIAISON COMMITTEE |
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ISSUE: Discussion of NCAA Sport Sponsorship. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Accepted
the information that the committee continued its discus-sion about the
decline of Olympic sports sponsorship within the NCAA. The committee discussed the NCAA Executive
Committee?s position that Title IX was not to blame for the decrease in men?s
Olympic sports; received an update on the U.S. Secretary of Education?s
Commission on Opportunity in Athletics process; and received a report from
the NCAA research staff regarding participation rates. The committee recognizes that changing the
enforcement of Title IX will not solve the problem of dropping sports and
that other avenues need to be investi-gated.
The committee met with representatives of several National Governing
Bodies (NGBs) who expressed their concerns about the impact that the
continued dropping of sports will have on their ability to be successful
internationally, and they believe the enforcement of Title IX is a main
contributor. The NGBs and the U.S.
Olympic Committee (USOC) would like to establish a partnership with the NCAA
to: (1) Celebrate the positives of
Title IX; (2) Address the unin-tended
consequences of Title IX; (3) Educate
institutions and the general public; and (4) Continue work on the federal
efforts. The committee decided that
it would continue to review this issue and work in conjunction with the
Committee on Women?s Athletics and the NGBs to develop initiatives that would
address the elimination of Olympic sports programs. The committee also discussed the possi-bility of re-implementing
the USOC conference-grant program or some other type of incentive for
sponsoring declining Olympic sports. |
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ISSUE: Meeting with National Governing Bodies. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Accepted
the information that the committee met with representatives from USA Wrestling;
Track & Field; Gymnastics; Field Hockey; Shooting; Basketball; Bowling;
Archery; Team Handball; Rowing; and Water Polo. The committee listened to issues presented and provided the
NGBs with relevant information regarding the NCAA and requested more specific
more specific written information from USA Gymnastics; Track & Field; and
Basketball. The Council noted women?s
wrestling will become an Olympic sport in 2004. |
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ISSUE: Emerging
Sports/Gender Equity Update. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Accepted
the information that the committee received a report related to the latest
developments for emerging sports. |
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ISSUE: Foreign
Student-Athlete Participation Rates. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Accepted
the information that the committee received a report from the NCAA research
staff related to the participation rates for student-athletes in NCAA
sports. The committee discussed its
role in monitoring the influx of international student-athletes and the
impact it has on the Olympic movement and the displacement of scholarships
for U.S. student-athletes. The
committee will continue to monitor the issue in light of the recent changes
made in Divisions II and III and their adoption of the season-of-competi-tion
legislation and the recent shift in reinstatement conditions in Division I. |
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ISSUE: Mission/Purpose
of the Committee. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Accepted
the information that the committee engaged in a discussion about developing a
mission and strategic plan to help guide its involvement with the NGBs and
the USOC. The committee will continue
its discussion and attempt to develop a philosophy at its April 2003 meeting. |
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SUPPLEMENT
NO. 5 AW ? MINORITY OPPORTUNITIES AND INTEREST COMMITTEE |
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ISSUE: Report
on the Use of American Indian Mascots in Intercollegiate Athletics ?Member
Institutions. |
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Brown, J.
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Management
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DeBauche Racy Ferris McGlynn Nilsson |
Endorsed
the committee?s recommendation related to NCAA member institutions, and forwarded
it to the Membership Committee for review and input prior to the April 2003
meeting of the Management Council. a. Require institutions currently using American Indian
mascots to complete a self-analysis checklist to determine if the depiction
of the mascot, nickname, logo, or behaviors can be viewed as offensive. Components of the Self-Analysis
Checklist will Include: (1)
Adherence to NCAA Constitution Article 2.2.2, 2.4 and 2.6. (2)
Efforts to assess behavior of the mascot, cheerleaders,
band members, and fans and the relevance of symbols. (3)
Efforts to educate athletic audiences on the specific
tribe or American Indians generally. (4)
Efforts to recruit and retain American Indian coaching and
administrative staff as well as university faculty and staff. (5)
Educational programs on Native American history and
culture for students. (6)
Efforts to educate staff, fans, and spectators on
sportsmanship related to mascots. (7)
Efforts to provide outreach to the American Indian
community. b.
Require the
self-analysis be conducted through a broad-base review including representatives
from the department of athletics, faculty and staff, community, student-athletes,
conference office and local American Indian tribes or community members. c.
Require the
self-analysis to be submitted as part of the certification process for Division
I institutions or the self-assessment process for Division II and Division
III institutions (legislative action may be required). |
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Presidents
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Endorsed
the action, noting its support of institutional self-analysis. |
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ISSUE: Report on the Use of American Indian
Mascots in Intercollegiate Athletics ? Member Conferences. |
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Brown, J. |
Management
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DeBauche Racy Ferris McGlynn Nilsson |
Endorsed
the committee?s recommendation related to NCAA conference offices, and forwarded
it to the Membership Committee for review and input prior to the April 2003
meeting of the Management Council. a. Require NCAA conferences with institutions using American Indian mascots or nicknames to review policies regarding contests. Policies to be reviewed should include championships, sport | ||||