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The NCAA News -- October 11, 1999

Governance groups convene with focus on Convention

The Division II Management Council will devote much of its October meeting to legislation that will be considered at the 2000 NCAA Convention.

The Management Council will meet October 18-19 in Atlanta. The Division II Presidents Council will assemble October 28 in Chicago.

A total of 48 legislative proposals will be included in the Official Notice, which will be mailed to the membership in November. The Management Council will review those proposals and make recommendations to the Presidents Council on how the proposals should be grouped (that is, which items should be flagged as being of special interest to chief executive officers, which should be designated for roll-call votes and which should be placed in a consent package to be approved in one vote).

The Management Council also will receive a report on a September 27 meeting during which Division II committee chairs and staff liaisons met with Management Council Chair Clint Bryant of Augusta State University. The meeting, thought to be the first of its sort in the new governance structure, was designed to ascertain how Division II is functioning and what areas might need special attention. After hearing the report, the Management Council is expected to assign responsibilities for addressing problem areas.

The Championships Committee will report on its recent meeting, during which the chairs of all team sports committees met. Several recommendations will come from that meeting, including some with moderate financial implications.

The Membership Committee, which also met recently, will forward a report discussing possible activities for the second year of the provisional membership period. That committee also is working on adjustments in the annual reports required of provisional members and is identifying Convention activities for provisional members.

The Division II Amateurism Project Team will present a report to the Management Council that will be a preview of its report to the Convention in January. The Convention report will be a major matter for the division, which is scheduled to consider a legislative package relating to amateurism at the 2001 Convention.

Reports also will be provided by the Project Team to Review Issues Related to Diversity, the Management Council Policies and Procedures Project Team, and the Strategic Planning Project Team.

Another significant matter will involve the election and reelection of Management Council members. Kevin Hickey of Assumption College is eligible for reelection, but five other members -- four of them female -- must be replaced. They are G. Jean Cerra, Barry University; Carol M. Dunn, California State University, Los Angeles; Patricia Merrier, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Wil G. Shaw, Morehouse College; and Marjorie A. Trout, Millersville University of Pennsylvania.

Not long ago, the Management Council was 50 percent female, but the current makeup is 14 males and 10 females.