Birmingham Rotaract

Join the Rotaract Club of Birmingham for a luncheon meeting Thursday, September 2nd at the Harbert Center featuring Mike Slive, 7th Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference. Mr. Slive will discuss the upcoming football season and the recent success of SEC schools.  We expect to hear his thoughts on the pros and cons of Conference expansion and what he thinks the future may hold for the Conference.  Mr. Slive is also expected to address the financial impact that having the SEC headquarters here in Birmingham has on the city.

Rotaract meets on the first and third Thursdays at the Harbert Center located in downtown Birmingham.  Lunch starts at 11:45 a.m. and meetings begin promptly at noon.  Lunch is free for members and $10 for guests.  A limited number of recruitment spots are available.  If you wish to bring a potential member, please email bhamrotaract.membership@gmail.com.

About Mike Slive
From his early days as an athletic administrator to his current post as commissioner, Mike Slive has maintained an integral role in the ever-changing world of intercollegiate athletics. He was named the seventh commissioner of the Southeastern Conference on July 2, 2002. In March 2009, the SEC Presidents and Chancellors announced a contract extension for Slive through July 31, 2012.

“Commissioner Slive has been an absolutely great addition to our conference,” said University of Kentucky and Southeastern Conference President Dr. Lee T. Todd at the time of the extension announcement. “He is providing great vision and directing the SEC to a new prominence in college athletics. I am thrilled we have locked him in to lead our conference for years to come.”

The SEC is in the second year of its landmark 15-year agreements with CBS and ESPN, which made the league the most widely distributed conference on television in the nation. These arrangements also secure the financial health of the SEC and its member institutions for years to come.

Since Slive’s arrival at the SEC in 2002, he has developed initiatives designed to maintain and improve the SEC’s position as one of the top intercollegiate athletic conferences in the nation, both on and off the fields of play. These include:

• The SEC Task Force on Compliance and Enforcement issued its first report at the 2004 SEC Spring Meetings. The task force developed policies and procedures to assist league schools in NCAA and SEC compliance and enforcement matters.

• The SEC Academic Consortium was created in 2005 to increase academic cooperation across the league by linking the resources of the 12 member institutions.

• The SEC has created a partnership with The Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University to implement the Mentors in Violence Prevention Program at each of the 12 member institutions.

• The SEC annually distributes a database of names and biographies of every minority head and assistant football coach on the Division I level to every one of its schools and every conference in Division I.

• The SEC has initiated policies and procedures designed to foster sportsmanship and preventing inappropriate fan behavior.

“I am gratified that the Presidents and Chancellors have extended my contract and I am honored to serve as the Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference,” said Slive. “We have accomplished many of our goals since my arrival in 2002 and there will be new challenges and goals to meet in the future. I look forward to these challenges as we continue to make the SEC one of the nation’s top intercollegiate athletic conferences. ”

ATHLETIC ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE
1968-69    Assistant Director of Athletics Dartmouth College
1979-81    Assistant Executive Director Pacific-10 Conference
1981-83    Director of Athletics Cornell University
1991-95    Commissioner Great Midwest Conference
1995-2002     Commissioner Conference USA
2002-     Commissioner Southeastern Conference

LEGAL EXPERIENCE
1969-77    Partner Stebbins & Bradley, Hanover, N.H.
1972-77    Judge of Hanover (N.H.) District Court
1977 -79    Judicial Master & Clerk of Grafton County (N.H.) Superior Court
1983-86    Founder Law Offices of Michael L. Slive, Hanover, N.H.
1986-91    Partner Coffield Ungaretti & Harris, Chicago, III.
1990-91    Senior Partner and Founder Slive-Glazier Sports Group, Chicago, III. & Kansas City, Mo.

MEMBERSHIP ON BOARDS AND COMMITTEES
Commission on Athletic Opportunity (Reviewing Title IX) (Appointed by President Bush on 6/28/02)
NCAA Management Council [1997-2004]
NCAA Management Council Subcommittee to Review Automatic Qualification
NCAA Infractions Appeals Committee (Chair) [1993-2002]
NCAA Football USA (Chair, Board of Directors) [1998-2003]
NCAA Division I Working Group to Study Basketball Issues [1998-99]
National Letter of Intent Steering Committee (Chair) [2002-08]
Collegiate Commissioners Association (President) [2001-03]
Division-1A Commissioners (Chair) [1999-2001]
Sports Lawyers Association (Board of Directors) [1997-2001]
Board of Advisors I Marquette Sports Law Institute [1999-present)
Bowl Championship Series Coordinator (2006-08)
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee (2004-09); Chair (2008-09)

EDUCATION
Dartmouth College (‘62) BA
University of Virginia Law School (‘65) Juris Doctor
Georgetown University Law Center (‘66) LLM

FAMILY
Wife: Elizabeth
Daughter: Anna