01/08/2003

The University of Nebraska Board of Regents will hold an emergency meeting via telephone conference call beginning at 9:00 a.m. Friday, January 10. The conference call will originate in the President’s Conference Room at Varner Hall, 3835 Holdrege Street, in Lincoln.

The only business to be conducted during the emergency meeting will be consideration of a motion to go into closed session for the purpose of holding a strategy session for collective bargaining. Such closed sessions are authorized by Nebraska Statute 84-1410.

The University of Nebraska has faculty labor unions at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. By law, final offers on each unresolved issue in the collective bargaining negotiations must be exchanged no later than January 10.