Future of Division III

2004 Legislative Reform Agenda

TITLE	SOURCE	EFFECTIVE DATE	INTENT
FINANCIAL AID ?ANNUAL ELECTRONIC REPORTING PROCESS	NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Joint Subcommittee on the Future of Division III)].	August 1, 2005	To require an institution to compare financial aid packaging for freshmen and transfer student-athletes with the aid packages awarded to other freshmen and transfer students via an annual electronic reporting process.
FINANCIAL AID ?ATHLETICS FUND ENDOWMENTS	NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Joint Subcommittee on the Future of Division III)].	August 1, 2008	To prohibit an institution from using its financial aid budget income from endowment funds specifically designated for student-athletes and received by the institution prior to January 1, 1979.
ELIGIBILITY ?DETERMINING SEASON OF ELIGIBILITY ?MINIMUM AMOUNT OF PARTICIPATION	NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Joint Subcommittee on the Future of Division III)]; Centennial Conference; College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin, and Iowa Conference.	August 1, 2004, for any athletics participation occurring on or after August 1, 2004.	To eliminate ?redshirting? by specifying that a student-athlete will be charged with a season of competition if he or she practices or competes during or after the first contest following the student-athlete's initial tryout.
DIVISION III ? PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT ? OFF-CAMPUS RECRUITING	NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Joint Subcommittee on the Future of Division III)].	August 1, 2004	To revise the Division III philosophy statement to specify that athletics recruitment complies with established institutional policies and procedures applicable to the admissions process.
RECRUITING ? PERMISSION TO CONTACT ? SELF-RELEASE	NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Joint Subcommittee on the Future of Division III)].	August 1, 2004	To grant student-athletes the authority to issue, on their own behalf, written permission that permits other institutions to contact the student-athlete about a potential transfer, while directing the enforcement staff and the Committee on Infractions to strengthen the enforcement of transfer contact regulations related to inappropriate contact with student-athletes.
PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS ?LENGTH OF SEASONS AND CONTEST LIMITS	NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee)].	August 1, 2006	To limit the length of an institution's playing season segment to 18 weeks in fall sports, and 19 weeks in winter and spring sports; further, to decrease the combined current traditional and nontraditional segment contest limits by 10 percent and establish combined maximums for traditional and nontraditional segments, while retaining the current caps on the maximum number of permissible contests or dates of competition in each segment.

TITLE	SOURCE	EFFECTIVE DATE	INTENT
PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS ? ELIMINATION OF OUT-OF-SEASON EXCEPTION	NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee)] .	August 1, 2004	To further limit voluntary out-of-season workouts that occur outside the permissible playing and practice seasons in the sports of fencing; gymnastics; rifle; rowing; skiing; and swimming and diving.
DIVISION III MEMBERSHIP ? MULTIDIVISION CLASSIFICATION ? AWARDING OF ATHLETICS AID	NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Joint Subcommittee on the Future of Division III)].	August 1, 2008	To eliminate the waiver that permits a Division III institution that sponsored a sport classified in Division I during 1982-83 to award athletically related financial aid in that sport, as well as a sport for the opposite gender later reclassified to Division I.
RESOLUTION ? DIVISION III STRATEGIC PLANNING AND MEMBERSHIP GROWTH	NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Joint Subcommittee on the Future of Division III)].	Interim report at the 2005 NCAA Convention. Final report with associated legislation, as appropriate, at the 2006 Convention.	To commit, as part of the division?s ongoing strategic-planning process, to address issues related to membership growth. The review will include the broad-based program and sport equity philosophies; appropriate championships access; access to other programs and services; and the greater exercise of institutional and conference autonomy, including related funding.