Best Practices for Administrators with Athletics Oversight

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Best Practices for Administrators with Athletics
Oversight

• Jackie Slaats
• Director of Athletics and Senior Woman Advisor
  to the President at Lake Forest College
• Scott Gines
• Vice President of Institutional Advancement at
  Texas AM University-Kingsville
• Morrie Scherrens
• Senior Vice President at George Mason University

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Best Practices for Administrators with Athletics
Oversight

• Frank Arredondo Moderator
• Assistant Director NCAAAcademic and Membership
  Affairs
• Dan Calandro Moderator
• Associate Director NCAA Academic and Membership
  Affairs

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Strategic Plan

• Linkage to University Master Plan
• Governance process
• Reporting relationships.
• Approval/modification.
• Inherent flexibility.

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Strategic Plan(continued)

• Comprehensiveness of plan
• Student-athlete (SA) /scholarships.
• Personnel/facilities.
• Sport sponsorship.
• Internal/external environment.

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Finances

• Become familiar with athletics revenues
  expenses.
• Comparisons Institutional, Conference Peers,
  Gender Ratios.

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Finances(continued)

• Self generated (Ticket sales, Advertising, etc.)
• Student fees.
• Trend analysis.

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Personnel

• Matching interests with objectives.
• Market competitiveness (multiyear).
• Competitive/academic success.
• Cause/convenience.
• Performance evaluations/exit interviews.

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Admissions

• Importance of "institutional fit ."
• Understanding of the admissions/"special
  admissions" process.
• Communication and relationship between athletics
  and admission/financial aid office.

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Student-athlete well-being andcampus relations

• Integration of student-athletes into general
  student body. If, when, and how?
• Relationship between key partners - Academics and
  Student Affairs.
• Effectiveness of Student-Athlete Advisory
  Committee (SAAC) and SA involvement in both
  campus and NCAA leadership.

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Student-athlete well-being andcampus relations
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• Practice and competition schedules conducive to
  SA experience.
• Effectiveness of related support services -
  athletics training, residence life, dining, etc.
• Facilities - assessment and accessibility.
• Crisis management.

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Student-athlete well-being andcampus relations
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• Communication with SAs
• Sports with part-time head coaches.
• End of season coach evaluations.
• Team meetings.
• SA exit interviews.
• Senior SA exit interviews.

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Academic Support

• Problem or dilemma.
• Determining (good fit) support programs.
• Measurements, systems, and accountability.

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Conference Alignment

• Vision - geographical, financial, competitive.
• Weaving mission with members and available
  markets.
• Build conference equity.

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Community Engagement

• Leveraging "front porch" with the "city square."
• Respect and low-hanging fruit.
• Build it while driving it - "get to" ask by
  "giving them" what they need.

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