Minutes of the Campus Athletic Committee March 23, 2007 Present: Jeffrey Maahs, CLA
Bruce Peckham, CSE
Bill Marko, Civil Service
Pam Spencer, Professional Staff
Sanjay Goel, LSBE
Matt Andrews, ECCA
Bob Nielson, Athletic Director
Allen Mensinger, Faculty Athletic Representative
Excused: Tom Isbell, SFA
JiYoon Yoon, CEHSP
The meeting was called to order at 2:00 p.m. by Jeffrey Maahs, Chair.
Introductions were made.
1. Election of Committee Chair. Jeffrey Maahs was elected Chair of the Committee. Bruce Peckham volunteered to serve as Vice Chair.
2. Ongoing Committee Activities. Suggestions for ongoing responsibilities for this committee:
a. Oversee the EADA Report. The EADA report is an equity in education report. It is submitted annually and reflects our compliance or non-compliance with Title IX. It tracks the ratio of men to women in expenditures, athletic aid, etc. to determine our compliance. This committee could review that report on an annual basis.
b. Review the annual academic reporting, i.e. GPA by team and graduation reports.
3. Early Registration. The early registration process for student-athletes was discussed. This process was reviewed by the Campus Athletic Committee in 2006. It was the opinion of the committee members at that time that the affect on non-athletes was negligible.
4. Class Days Missed. The current procedure is to have the student-athletes bring a list of the class days they will miss due to team travel on the first day of classes. At that time, the instructor is asked to indicate if it is an issue. If it is, then the athlete would have to decide whether or not to stay in that class. It is the student’s responsibility to see that all class work is made up or done in advance. One suggestion from the committee was to put information on the website under the academic center. Bob Nielson asked for feedback as to any issues of which the committee may be aware.
5. Academic Center Forms. The committee discussed various alternatives to the typed forms which are currently being distributed. E-mail was suggested as a vehicle for gathering information. The mid-term alert system was also suggested. The committee suggested contacting Linda Dineen to see if e-mail is a possibility. The timing for sending out the reports was discussed. The consensus of the committee was that sending the reports out during the 5th and 10th weeks of the semester was the best scenario.
6. Campus Visits. Matt Andrews asked if visits where students request to tour specific facilities can occur on a weekday instead of a Saturday. Bob Nielson explained that football, basketball, and hockey do official visits. Most of those athletes have practices during the week, so they cannot come on a weekday. Football is usually the sport which has visits on Saturday. The others try to have their visits on Friday-Saturday, so the tour can take place on Friday.
7. Miscellaneous. In response to an inquiry, Bob Nielson stated:
a. Next season most contests will be against NSIC opponents. Since there will be fewer contests against non-conference opponents, there will be fewer class days missed.
b. There will not be a conference tournament for football. As of now, conference tournaments will be conducted for basketball, baseball, and softball.
c. Playoffs for all sports will be done by specific region, which will include two conferences for all sports, except football which will include three conferences.
d. We are still working on a baseball/softball festival in the spring, but nothing is definite at this time.
e. Scholarships for all sports will stay the same in the NSIC, except for football. We have reduced our scholarships gradually to 24, which is the NSIC limit.
f. We are looking at scheduling exhibition games against Division I programs. Right now, they are on a rotating basis.
8. We need a student representative on the committee. Jeffrey Maahs will check on the process.
9. Copies of all reports referred to in these minutes will be mailed to committee members before the next committee meeting.
The meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Lynne Erickson
Recording Secretary