After a review of best practices elsewhere, the Board of Governors recently created a negotiations committee. It will set mandates for administration to negotiate each collective agreement and recommend proposed collective agreements to be ratified by the board.

       Negotiations used to be the responsibility of the board's human resources committee. Now membership on the human resources committee is open to internal (Trent faculty, staff and students) board members.

        The negotiations committee will be composed of the board chair, an external board member, chairs of the board's audit and finance and human resources committees, the president, and such administrators and consultants the committee considers appropriate.

        The new committee was recommended by the board's human resources committee, which will advise the board on human resources policies and practices, including collective agreement administration, health and safety, human rights and employment equity.