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Here is the Press Release from the meetings
http://www.bigskyconf.com/article.asp?articleid=58932
Expansion was the topic of discussion in a meeting of the Big Sky Conference Presidents Council held Monday in Salt Lake City. The council covered a range of issues including developing a set of expansion criteria and formalizing the expansion process. The Presidents Council discussed adding between one and three schools or remaining at the current eight-team makeup.
The Presidents Council moved to proceed with the expansion process by first accepting official letters of interest from those institutions that desire membership. Institutions that become possible expansion candidates will then be evaluated using a set of criteria approved by the Presidents Council. Some of the established criteria will include academic quality, athletic competitiveness, commitment to gender equity, commitment to student-athlete success and geography with regards to cost of travel and travel time.
Following the evaluation period a committee will be put together to visit the campuses of expansion candidates in the spring of 2005. The traveling committee will be comprised of at least one president, one athletic director and one faculty athletic representative from the Big Sky along with Big Sky Commissioner Doug Fullerton. A final decision regarding expansion is expected to come in late spring of 2005.
The meeting was chaired by Weber State University President Dr. F. Ann Millner, the Chair of the Presidents Council, with all seven other Big Sky Presidents in attendance. Due to a flight cancelation, Montana State University President Dr. Geoffrey Gamble participated via speakerphone.
The Big Sky Conference is currently made up of eight institutions over seven states - Eastern Washington University, Idaho State University, the University of Montana, Montana State University, Northern Arizona University, Portland State University, Sacramento State and Weber State University. In 2004-05 the Big Sky will be entering the fourth year of its current membership.
http://www.bigskyconf.com/article.asp?articleid=58932
Expansion was the topic of discussion in a meeting of the Big Sky Conference Presidents Council held Monday in Salt Lake City. The council covered a range of issues including developing a set of expansion criteria and formalizing the expansion process. The Presidents Council discussed adding between one and three schools or remaining at the current eight-team makeup.
The Presidents Council moved to proceed with the expansion process by first accepting official letters of interest from those institutions that desire membership. Institutions that become possible expansion candidates will then be evaluated using a set of criteria approved by the Presidents Council. Some of the established criteria will include academic quality, athletic competitiveness, commitment to gender equity, commitment to student-athlete success and geography with regards to cost of travel and travel time.
Following the evaluation period a committee will be put together to visit the campuses of expansion candidates in the spring of 2005. The traveling committee will be comprised of at least one president, one athletic director and one faculty athletic representative from the Big Sky along with Big Sky Commissioner Doug Fullerton. A final decision regarding expansion is expected to come in late spring of 2005.
The meeting was chaired by Weber State University President Dr. F. Ann Millner, the Chair of the Presidents Council, with all seven other Big Sky Presidents in attendance. Due to a flight cancelation, Montana State University President Dr. Geoffrey Gamble participated via speakerphone.
The Big Sky Conference is currently made up of eight institutions over seven states - Eastern Washington University, Idaho State University, the University of Montana, Montana State University, Northern Arizona University, Portland State University, Sacramento State and Weber State University. In 2004-05 the Big Sky will be entering the fourth year of its current membership.
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