Conference Goals

The last few days, I've been mulling over a couple of ideas and the one I came back to a few times was establishing conference goals (both for myself and for the conference). I think conference wide goals will help us stay motivated and grow the conference a bit.
1.) Increase communication between myself and our schools. I don't want people thinking I'm unapproachable or too busy to chat. My door (if you live in Tucson) is always open...so is my e-mail and phone too. I'm always happy to discuss cycling!
2.) Increase communication between schools. We have a lot *A LOT* of quality leadership in the conference and new schools and officers can learn from the experienced leaders. That was one of the goals of the FB group and I think its worked out well so far.
3.) Grow the conference. We're missing a large contingent of riders from New Mexico such as in Silver City (Western NM) and in El Paso (UTEP). I would love to see these programs start up and help diversify the conference. The only way to do this is to spread the word about collegiate cycling. If you know someone attending these schools and they have the tiniest love of biking- talk to them about starting a club!
4.) Re-establish ourselves on the national scene. Our conference has great potential and has the perfect mix to turn out championship riders with the terrain and weather. I would like to see mountain and road national titles return to our conference in the next 3 years. Obviously, the sooner the better, however, it takes time to develop national caliber riders. I would include track and CX in this but those are definitely segments that need a lot of growth and one needs a dedicated structure in our boundaries...
5.) Increase the number of stand alone collegiate events over the next couple of years. This one is tied to number 3 since our conference is too small to effectively have races focusing only on collegiate. One of the best things about collegiate cycling is the atmosphere which I feel is sort of missing in our conference. Anyone who attended nationals in May picked up on the collegiate vibe and that is exactly how collegiate focused weekends feel.The current status works, however,  with more schools we can start to shy away from tagging our events on to other USAC events and instead tagging on a few USAC categories to collegiate races. Imagine having 6 collegiate races (Men's A through D, Women's A and B) each with their own race and then having a P/1/2/3, 4/5 men's and women's races at the end of the day. The atmosphere would be completely different!