Board to approve labor agreements, NCAA certification
Labor agreements and Eastern’s National Collegiate Athletic Association re-certification will be discussed at the Board of Trustees meeting today.
Athletic Director Barbara Burke will address the board on the progress of the university’s re-certification progress.
Burke said the process takes place every ten years and the athletic department has been preparing since last September for this review.
The NCAA conducts its process by three operating principles: governance and commitment to rules, academic integrity and gender/diversity issues, and well being of the student athlete.
President William Perry has appointed a steering committee to the task of preparing the university for this review.
This committee, led by Jill Owen, is comprised of personnel from governance, faculty, staff, student-athletes, alums and community supporters.
“We feel like we’ve done a substantial job of staying up to standards,” Burke said.
The final decision will be delivered to Perry in February 2011.
The Board will also determine the approval of the new labor agreements both the Teamsters Local #26 and Painters District Council #58 unions.
Spokesperson Vicki Woodard said union contracts with the university are re-evaluated approximately every three years.
The Teamsters union, which is composed of 15 employees, and the Painters District Council with 18 employees, are set to receive 1 percent wage increase across the board.
If approved, The Teamsters contract will be effective as of July 1 and the Painters District Council’s will be effective as of May 1 of this year and continue through April 30, 2013.
Woodard said the university has a total of 10 bargaining units in its employ.
Cynthia Nichols, Director of the Office of Civil Rights & Diversity , will also give her Annual Report on Title IX Compliance at the meeting.
In conjunction with the Board of Trustee meeting will be the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the textbook rental center held at 11 a.m.
The Board of Trustees meeting is at 1 p.m. today in the Grand Ballroom.
Shelley Holmgren can be reached at 581-7942
