Joe Glover To Serve As NAIA-ADA President For 2020-21 Academic Year
NEW ALBANY, Ind. – IU Southeast Director of Athletics Joe Glover will serve as President of the NAIA Athletic Director's Association (NAIA-ADA) Executive Board beginning in July 2020.
"During these unprecedented times in our profession, it is more important than ever that we join together as colleagues to share ideas and to help each other continue to grow and advance for the benefit of our student-athletes, coaches and universities," stated Joe Glover. "I'm excited to lead such amazing group of leaders in the NAIA, and I look forward to making sure the NAIA-ADA continues to serve the ever-changing needs of our members."
In 2017-18, Glover was elected to serve on the executive board and rotated through the position on the body over the next four years. He has served on the board's as the three vice president positions before assuming the role as president in 2020.
The purpose of the NAIA-ADA is to promote the development and welfare of intercollegiate athletics as an integral part of the educational program of higher education, and to foster the professional growth of university officials charged with the responsibilities of coordinating athletic programs; namely the director of intercollegiate athletics.
The NAIA-ADA also engages Athletic Directors with meaningful collaboration and national recognition while promoting the NAIA Athletic Directors' collective voice on issues affecting membership and college athletics on a national scale.
Glover, who was named the Director of Athletics at Indiana University Southeast in 2010, also serves on the National Administrative Council (NAC) of the NAIA.
He is a member of the NAC's Championships Committee and has chaired several important national taskforces, including the one which standardized basketball national championship bracketing procedures and policies in 2015. He was a member of the national taskforce that realigned the NAIA basketball divisional structure and returned it to one division within the NAIA beginning this season.
Glover has served as President of the River States Conference Administrative Council and was named Athletic Director of the Year in 2013 and 2018. He also served the league as interim commissioner during the 2017-18 school year.
Glover also assumes the role as President of the Rotary Club of New Albany in 2020.
A native of New Albany (IN), Glover graduated from IU Southeast with a Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing. Additionally, Glover earned his M.B.A. from the IU Southeast School of Business and serves as an adjunct professor of Business.
Joe and his wife, Melissa, live in New Albany with their two daughters, Annabelle and Hadley.