College Sports Information Directors of America

September 22, 2005

I. President Joe Hernandez (Ball State) gave an update on the status of 
the Academic All-America on-line process. He said a blast email would 
be sent to the membership on October 3 outlining the process. He said 
Mark Beckenbach (Ohio Wesleyan) was working up a simple handbook for 
members and would be forwarding it to Hernandez to review. 

II. Hernandez said the officers needed to exchange their notebooks and 
CDs detailing their duties from the previous year.



III. Hernandez reminded the officers to send thank you letters to the 
workshop sponsors.



IV. Hernandez said a few more surveys on the 2005 workshop had been 
received and his office was tallying the information. He said he would 
have the results next week.



V. Third Vice President John Bianco (Texas) said he had been going 
through the information on the awards program.



VI. Director of Marketing Ed Carpenter (Boston Univ.) said he would be 
following up on a potential sponsor lead for the Academic All-America 
Hall of Fame program.



VII. Director of On-Line Services Maxey Parrish (Waco, Texas) gave a 
brief update on the CoSIDA website. VIII. Secretary Jeff Hodges (North 
Alabama) said the October Digest was going in the mail and that the 
CoSIDA Directories were due back from the printer by October 1. He also 
discussed the on-line directory updates.



IX. Under Old Business, Hernandez said Wayne Block was working on the 
committee restructuring information.



X. There was a brief discussion of the continued violation by some 
organizations of CoSIDA’s trademark of Academic All-America. Carpenter 
asked that information be posted on the CoSIDA website and printed in 
the directory reminding SIDs that only CoSIDA teams can use the term 
Academic All-America for its teams and to not publicize other teams as 
such.



XI. Hernandez gave an update on the Hurricane Katrina Fund. He said 
that eight board members have contributed $1200. He said another 
fifty-two members have contributed $4,625, including $500 from ICS and
$500 from Warren Associates. He said that means the organization must 
put in $18,000 for the board, and $9,250 to match the members for a 
total of $27,250 - or more than half way to the goal of $50,000.
The call was adjourned.

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