DII Executive Board elects Goldey-Beacom’s Keith to second term as chair - NCAA.org

Media Center 10/30/2024 2:54:00 PM Corbin McGuire

The Division II Executive Board at its meeting this week elected Colleen Perry Keith, president at Goldey-Beacom, to a second term as its chair. The board also elected Sandra Woodley, president at Texas Permian Basin, to a second term as its vice chair and approved three new members to the Division II Management Council.

As chair of the Division II Executive Board, Keith will continue to serve as a member of the NCAA Board of Governors. Keith and Woodley's second terms in their respective roles on the board will begin after the 2025 NCAA Convention and last one year.

"It is a privilege to be re-elected as chair," Keith said. "I am excited to work alongside my colleagues to address the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, ensuring that Division II remains a leader in collegiate athletics."

The Division II Executive Board approved several personnel moves made by the Division II Management Council. This included the re-election of Roberta Page, director of athletics at Slippery Rock, as its chair, and the re-election of Erin Lind, commissioner of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, as its vice chair.

The following appointments to the Division II Management Council, effective after the 2025 Convention, were also approved:

The Executive Board reviewed four membership-sponsored proposals and the formal positions that various committees in the division's governance structure, including the Division II Management Council, took ahead of the 2025 NCAA Convention. Due to the new policies and procedures established by the Executive Board as part of its restructuring this year, the board is required to take a position on membership-sponsored proposalsonly if the proposal would have a significant financial impact on the division's budget and/or on its schools and conferences. This is a change from the previous practice of the Division II Executive Board, which did take positions on proposals in past years.

At the Division II business session of the Convention, eight proposals — four membership-sponsored proposals and four that came from the division's governance structure — will be voted on via the division's one-school, one-vote legislative process. For a proposal from the Division II membership to be voted on at an NCAA Convention, it must have at least 15 active schools or two conferences on behalf of 15 or more of their member schools as sponsors.

Members received an update and discussed recommendations from the Division II think tank that was held in September. The think tank brought thought leaders together from across the division to assess the challenges facing college athletics in general, and Division II in particular, and to develop strategies that continue to position Division II as a thought leader in intercollegiate athletics and a destination of choice for member schools. In early 2025, a Division II survey will be sent to the broader Division II membership to gather feedback. Governance committees will use the results of the survey to finalize the Division II operating plan, outline initiatives to accomplish, including the timing for them, and determine a funding model for implementation. The final 2026-32 Division II operating plan will be shared at the January 2026 NCAA Convention.

The Executive Board, along with the NCAA Board of Governors, the Division I Board of Directors and the Division III Presidents Council, took part in a joint discussion Tuesday on sports betting and the 2023-24 formal evaluation process of NCAA President Charlie Baker.

The sports betting conversation built off a recent NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports meeting in which the NCAA's harm reduction strategies were discussed in detail.

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