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June 3, 2003 ICLA Selects Award Recipients
Those being honored include Linda Gilbert of the University of Missouri with the Synergy Award: Program of the Year; Gear for Sports with the Corporate Service Award; and John Fairman of Kansas State University, as an ICLA Hall of Fame inductee. Award winners will be recognized at ICLA's Inaugural Workshop, June 13-16 at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida at the NACDA Directors' Cup Awards Luncheon on Sunday, June 15. ICLA provides educational and networking opportunities, enhancement of acceptable operating standards and ethics, and establishment of the overall prestige and understanding of the profession of collegiate licensing. ICLA is administered by NACDA, which is now in its 37th year. NACDA serves as the professional and educational association for more than 6,100 college athletics directors, associates, assistants and conference commissioners at more than 1,600 institutions throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada. Through its series of management seminars, clinics and workshops and publication of the bi-monthly magazine Athletics Administration, NACDA offers educational opportunities to its members. More than 1,200 athletics administrators annually attend the NACDA Convention. Additionally, the Association operates the NACDA Directors' Cup program, which honors the all-sports champion in each of the NCAA Divisions -- I, II, III -- and the NAIA, for a total of four trophies. A brief biographical sketch of each of the award recipients follows: Synergy Award: Program of the Year Linda Gilbert, University of Missouri Linda Gilbert has been the administrator of the licensing and trademark programs for the University of Missouri since 1988. She served three terms on the board of directors of the Association of Collegiate Licensing Administrators (ACLA); and a three-year term on the National Collegiate Licensing Association (NCLA). She was on the transition team to merge the two associations into ICLA. The first vice president of ICLA, Gilbert chaired the program committee for the 2003 ICLA Winter Symposium, ICLA Professional Certification Committee and co-chaired the 2003 ICLA Workshop. She has presented at many licensing conferences in the past 10 years; and is actively involved with licensing in the Big 12 Conference. She has also been in charge of developing and coordinating training programs for UM Business Services' employees and has conducted train-the-trainer programs for several other universities. She has also been active with the Central Area College and University Business Officers. Gilbert received her bachelor's degree in business education from Truman State University (formerly Northeast Missouri State). Corporate Service Award Gear for Sports Gear for Sports revolutionized the bookstore and licensed product business by raising the bar on design and product quality, while increasing customer service. Gear for Sports has managed hundreds of licenses without compliance issues. The company has been a leader in defending worker's rights. In 1995, before this issue reached many of the nation's campuses, Gear for Sports drafted its own code of conduct to address the concern and, two years later, established the office of Global Human Rights Compliance. As universities have taken their own steps to defend workers' rights, Gear for Sports has assisted the industry in developing its approach to this issue. Recently, the company completed a complex merger with the acquisition of the Champion brand. For the 2002-03 fiscal year, Gear for Sports is on track to report more collegiate sales for Champion than in any year in that company's history. Gear for Sports has been a long-time licensee of the NCAA, bowl games and conferences, and, in 1997 established Event One, an event concessionaire resource, which eventually received the NCAA championships concession rights. Event One also manages the event concessions business for the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12 and Southeastern conferences. ICLA Hall of Fame John Fairman, Kansas State University John Fairman has been the assistant vice president for institutional advancement, director of university relations and director of licensing since 1987. During his 16 years administering Kansas State's licensing program, revenues from royalties have increased from $7,000 in 1987 to $700,000 last year. In the initial years of collegiate licensing, Fairman implemented a program to educate and involve the campus community in the licensing and royalty generation theory. This program divided Kansas State's royalty revenue between general student and student-athlete scholarships. He also promotes licensing efforts through close partnerships with Manhattan retail businesses and licensees in the state of Kansas. He established a program for high schools that wish to use the Powercat logo as their school logo in which royalties from high school product orders are paid to Kansas State. Fairman played a key role in the formation of the National Collegiate Licensing Association (NCLA), served on its first board of directors, and chaired the Strategic Planning Committee. He has also served as a member of the Collegiate Licensing Company Labor Code Task Force. Fairman earned his bachelor's degree from Central Michigan University in 1966.
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