The 2008-09 edition of the Division II Membership Report is now available online.

This year’s report is the most interactive and comprehensive since the report began being published in 2002. The 40-page report provides links to the Division II strategic-positioning platform, the economic values study that helps institutions determine the value of Division II’s partial-scholarship model, and the community-engagement and game-environment Web sites.

Also included are links to Division II’s award-winning videos that describe the division’s strategic initiatives and more than two dozen Division II-specific stories in Champion magazine. In addition, information on the Division II Make-A-Wish campaign, the effort to support Habitat for Humanity and the success of the Division II National Championship Festivals also are provided.

Conferences are well-represented in the report as well, with links to each league’s Web site included in the report’s resources section.

“This version of the report clearly is our most ambitious from a technology standpoint since we began providing them seven years ago,” said Division II Vice President Mike Racy. “Conferences should find the report particularly beneficial. In fact, I would encourage conferences to display the report prominently on their own Web sites to give their viewers quick access to what Division II is all about.”

The report is presented in a V-Mag format, meaning that it presents on screen as a magazine (NCAA Champion magazine uses the same application). Any page of the report can be downloaded as a high-resolution PDF file.

Tim Selgo, chair of the Division II Management Council and athletics director at Grand Valley State, said the breadth of the report reflects the breadth of the division’s strategic initiatives.

“When you put all of these stories, videos and links together, as we do in the annual report, it becomes apparent that Division II is about more than playing games and going to class,” Selgo said. “It stands for a complete student experience.”