SOUTH DAKOTA BOARD OF REGENTSDecember 8th, 2011
FiledDecember 8th, 2011The current higher education bargaining agreement between the South Dakota Board of Regents and the Council of Higher Education expired by its terms on June 30, 2011. Negotiations for a replacement agreement began in earnest on December 14, 2010. Six months later on June 20, 2011, talks, which had been exceptionally productive on numerous complex issues, reached a point at which material progress eluded the parties, and the Board negotiators declared impasse. By then, the parties met many times, including a round of prolonged negotiations that ran from April 8, 2011, into April 11, 2011. The proposals and counterproposals, together with brief statements of rationale, covered nearly ninety pages of text.