About ECAC-SIDA
Join ECAC-SIDAIf you are employed in the athletic communications/sports information office at a school that maintains membership in the Eastern College Athletic Conference, you and your fellow staffers are automatically granted membership in ECAC-SIDA (your dues are covered by your institution as part of its membership fee structure with the ECAC). However, ECAC-SIDA membership is not limited to schools within the ECAC. If your school is not affiliated with the ECAC, or you work for an institution outside the ECAC region, you are invited to join forces with your fellow athletic communications professionals via membership in ECAC-SIDA. An annual membership costs $50 for active members and $10 for students. Click here (PDF file) to print a membership application. Please contact ECAC-SIDA treasurer Roger Crosley if you have any questions. Roger Crosley, ECAC-SIDA Treasurer |
There are countless benefits to being a member of ECAC-SIDA, both professionally and personally. In addition to having the opportunity to revisit personal relationships and share athletic communication ideas with your fellow public relations professionals at our organization’s annual workshop, there are other benefits available throughout the academic year.
All members receive the ECAC-SIDA newsletter four times during the year, distributed via e-mail as a pdf file, as well as the ECAC-SIDA Hometown Handbook. The Hometown Handbook is an outstanding publication that includes up-to-date listings for all newspapers (listed alphabetically and by county) in the Eastern College Athletic Conference’s 13-state membership region.
The newly improved ECAC-SIDA web site (ECACSIDA.com) is your online link to the organization. The site includes, but is not limited to, nomination forms for the organization’s awards program, the latest information on the upcoming workshop, a brief history of the organization and archived newsletters in a pdf format.
Perhaps the most important part of ECAC-SIDA’s web presence is the online Jobs Center, which allows members a forum to post job openings free of charge while also providing a fresh listing of available job opportunities for students, interns and others as they pursue the next step in their professional career.
For more than 50 years, the members of ECAC-SIDA have been instrumental in shaping the course of athletic communications efforts on the local, regional and national levels. Please join us as we continue to forge new ground in an ever-changing profession.
