The Eastern College Athletic Conference is a College Athletic Conference comprising schools that compete in 35 men's and women's sports. It has 317 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II and II, ranging in location from Maine to North Carolina. NCAA conferences Division I Division I-A football Bowl Championship Series conferences Atlantic Coast Conference Big Ten Conference Big Twelve Conference Big East Conference Pacific Ten Conference Southeastern Conference Non BCS conferences Conference USA Mid-American Conference Mountain West Conference Sun Belt Conference Western Athletic Conference NCAA Division I-A... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ...
The ECAC was founded as the Central Office for Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics in 1938. In 1983, the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (EAIAW) was consolidated into the ECAC. Most member schools are in other conferences as well, but through the ECAC are able to participate in sports that their other conference does not offer.
See also:ECAC Hockey League The ECAC Hockey League is one of the six conferences that compete in NCAA Division I ice hockey. ...
ECAC provides and supervises officiating services for conferences, member institutions, and officials by promoting levels of communication, education and evaluation.
Thus, the U.S. Department of Justice contends that ECAC is a public accommodation as defined in section 301 (7) of the ADA, 42 U.S.C. § 12181, and its implementing regulation, 28 C.F.R. § 36.104.
ECAC, its officers, agents and employees, agrees to furnish to officials with disabilities reasonable appropriate auxiliary aids and services to ensure effective communication in educational training sessions and camps conducted and sponsored by the ECAC.