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SUPPLEMENT NO. 2<br />
DI Administration Cabinet 9/08<br />
Page No. 7<br />
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Efforts need to focus on broadening the pool from which representatives<br />
are selected. There needs to be a focus on developing talent to ready<br />
representatives for leadership roles.<br />
The governance cabinets and the committee structure provides a good<br />
opportunity for young professionals to gain experience.<br />
Conferences may be able to provide assistance by including more and<br />
different representatives in their meeting structure.<br />
The <strong>NCAA</strong> Convention can serve as a forum to provide development<br />
opportunities to young professionals.<br />
Identifying minority and female professionals for additional exposure to<br />
<strong>NCAA</strong> meetings.<br />
Increased efforts to discuss employment opportunities in intercollegiate<br />
athletics with minority and female student-athletes should be pursued.<br />
Efforts should be made to learn from successful programs in higher<br />
education and elsewhere, as lack of diversity is a societal problem.<br />
Mentoring efforts, including providing access to reading materials, a<br />
dedicated web site and meetings may be beneficial.<br />
An assessment of current <strong>NCAA</strong> professional development programs for<br />
females and minorities should be conducted to assess their level of<br />
success.<br />
[Note: The <strong>NCAA</strong> Diversity and Inclusion staff will be called upon to assist<br />
with this examination. For future discussions the Council asked to see<br />
governance service histories by conference.]<br />
b. Update regarding preliminary plans to examine Division I membership standards.<br />
LDC ACTION: Learned that as a result of the two-year moratorium in 2000,<br />
Division I developed a more detailed educational assessment program and standards<br />
to more clearly distinguish football playing institutions among subdivisions, but that<br />
the migration to Division I did not slow down. Accordingly, in August 2007, the<br />
Division I Board of Directors established a four-year membership moratorium to take<br />
time to assess and study the impact of this membership migration and develop<br />
reasonable philosophical expectations and legislative requirements that should be<br />
adhered to by all institutions desiring to transition to or remain in Division I; and
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