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CIS Open letter on UBC situation.
 Posted
3/30/2011 11:07:00 AM
March 28, 2011
Professor Toope
President and Vice Chancellor The University of British Columbia
6328 Memorial Road Vancouver, BC,
Canada
V6T 1Z2
Dear Professor Toope:
Thank you for meeting with the CIS senior leadership team on March 14, 2011.
We appreciated the opportunity to express in person how important UBC is to CIS, to report on the progress to move the yard-sticks forward on areas of concern that UBC put on the table in October 2008, and to provide context and clarifications for some of the conclusions included in the January 2011 "UBC Vancouver Campus and NCAA Division II Membership: A Review of the Issues" paper. We wish to highlight the key points from the March 14, 2011 meeting below:
How Important UBC is to CIS
CIS is united in its interest that UBC Vancouver remains a member of CIS. As a founding member of Canadian Interuniversity Sport, UBC Vancouver ...
CIS-UBC President summit leaves all sides in limbo
Posted
3/15/2011 10:01:00 AM
The summit between UBC's President Stephen Toope and a three member CIS team was a "...cordial, professional meeting with some frank discussion," according to CIS CEO Marg McGregor.
It sounds like Toope cut to the chase about any progress the CIS has made on tiering and athletic awards.
The CIS outlined what progress had been made in regard to the "like minded" split conference concept and the President's council who will oversee any expansion of financial awards.
The UBC Athletics document inaccurately represented the CIS position that they were ambivalent to UBC's departure from the association. They expressed their sincerest concerns about a potential UBC departure.
"If we did leave that impression (of ambivalence), it clearly was not our intent and UBC clearly understands that now," McGregor said.
“We mentioned to them that there were a few spots in the report that from our perspective didn’t capture the full picture, ...
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