INDIANAPOLIS --- Presidential leadership from nearly 130 college campuses across the country will meet in San Diego for the second Division II Presidents and Chancellors Summit. The event will be held at the Marriott Hotel and Marina in San Diego on June 22 and 23.

NCAA President Myles Brand will open the business session to discuss trends in intercollegiate athletics and the strategic direction of Division II. The summit will be dedicated to outlining the future challenges and opportunities for the Division, as well as celebrating recent successes. The campus leaders in attendance will be one of the first to view the research model designed to quantify the financial benefits of the Division II partial-grant model for athletics aid. Other topics of discussion include the division’s partnership with CSTV, Division II community engagement initiatives, and an update on the Division II Academic Success Rate.

The summit will feature 18 speakers and presenters, including Brand; Charles Ambrose, Pfeiffer, President of Pfeiffer University and chair of the Division II Presidents Council; CSTV Executive Vice President Tim Pernetti; and sports-marketing consultant Rich Luker. In addition, fourteen Division II presidents and chancellors are scheduled to speak or appear on discussion panels during the summit.

The first Presidents and Chancellors Summit was held two years ago and marked a significant turning point for the future direction of Division II. A clear path for the future of Division II emerged from this first summit, which led to several important milestones for the membership.

These milestones include the development of a strategic-positioning platform that identifies Division II’s unique attributes and characteristics, which serves as a guidepost for decision making within the division. This platform serves as the foundation for the visual identity campaign, toolkit and community engagement initiative for the division to give Division II a unique identity within the NCAA parent brand.  

The new Division II visual identity was created to further reflect the characteristics of the division, which is centered on the “I Chose Division II” moniker and the six primary attributes of Division II – Learning, Service, Passion, Sportsmanship, Resourcefulness and Balance. A hexagon serves as the graphical theme and a quick visual representation of the relationship between all of these characteristics.

Community engagement is another Division II initiative aimed at bringing the division’s strategic positioning platform to life at the local level. Through this strategy, athletics can serve as the “front porch” in building relationships between community and institution.

NCAA Division II is one of the three membership divisions at the National Collegiate Athletic Association, a volunteer organization comprising more than 1,200 institutions, conferences and affiliated organizations. Division II is a group of institutions and conferences that serve more than 75,000 student-athletes nationwide, including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The emphasis for the student-athlete experience in Division II is a comprehensive program of learning and development.

The Division II approach provides growth opportunities through academic achievement, learning in high-level athletic competition and the development of societal attitudes in service to the community. The balance and integration of these different areas of learning provide Division II student-athletes with a path to graduation while cultivating a variety of skills and knowledge for life ahead.

For additional information on Division II efforts, visit www.ncaa.org.