Big South Conference Spring Meetings Recap

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06-02-2009 07:54 PM

Big South Conference Spring Meetings Recap

<strong>New Executive Officers Elected, New League Initatives Approved

The annual Big South Conference Council of Chief Executive Officers meeting was held on Friday, May 29 on the campus of Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C., in conjunction with the League’s annual Spring Meetings and 25th Anniversary Banquet. High Point University President Dr. Nido R. Qubein has been elected President of the Conference, Radford University President Penelope W. Kyle has been elected Vice-President, and UNC Asheville Chancellor Dr. Anne Ponder has been elected Secretary of the League.Read more ... (http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/index.php/2009/06/02/big-south-conference-spring-meetings-rec?blog=2#more5028)

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Cost-cutting measures from the article...

1) Committee meetings conducted via video and phone conference rather than in-person to reduce members’ travel costs
2) Major Conference meetings held in a centralized location to take advantage of economically friendly campus resources
3) Elimination of printed media guides;
4) Conference scheduling in all sports that minimizes costs.