The Division I Management Council will give initial consideration to the following proposals at its January 11 meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. The proposals are listed in the order they appear in the Division I Official Notice.

Academic Performance Programs

No. 03-112 Academic Performance Program

Intent: To establish a program, with appropriate measurements of academic performance, that rewards those institutions and teams that demonstrate commitment toward the academic progress, retention and graduation of student-athletes and penalizes those that fail to demonstrate such commitment.

Source: Incentives/Disincentives Working Group.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-113 Academic Performance
Program -- Penalties

Intent: To establish a set of penalties that may apply to an institution or team(s) that fails to satisfy the standards of the academic performance program.

Source: Incentives/Disincentives Working Group.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Administrative Regulations

No. 02-72 Administrative Regulations -- Graduation Rate Disclosure -- NCAA Graduation Success Rate

Intent: To specify that an institution shall not be eligible to enter a team or an individual competitor in an NCAA championship unless the institution has completed the NCAA Graduation Success Rate report by the deadline established by the Board of Directors.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Academic Consultants).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-27 Administrative Regulations -- Certification of Compliance

Intent: To require all athletics department staff members, including clerical personnel, to sign the certification of compliance form.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Legislative Review/Interpretations).

Effective date: Immediately.

Amateurism

No. 03-72 Amateurism -- Expenses for
Student-Athlete's Friends and Relatives -- Postseason Bowl Games

Intent: In Division I-A football, to permit a student-athlete to designate individuals other than his or her parents or legal guardians to receive permissible entertainment expenses related to the student-athlete's participation in the postseason bowl game.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet [Subcommittee on Agents and Amateurism (Pacific-10 Conference)].

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-73 Amateurism -- Financial Donations from Outside Organizations -- Professional Sports Organizations

Intent: In sports other that football and men's basketball, to permit an institution's marketing department to enter into a reciprocal contractual relationship with a professional sports organization for the specific purpose of marketing and promoting an institutionally sponsored sport.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Pacific-10 Conference).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-103 Amateurism -- Definitions and Applications -- First Opportunity to Enroll

Intent: To establish a definition of first opportunity to enroll for use in student-athlete reinstatement cases involving participation on professional teams.

Source: Ivy Group.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Athletics Certification

No. 03-69 Athletics Certification

Intent: To eliminate the requirement that each Division I member institution, at least once every 10 years, complete an institutional self-study, verified and evaluated through external peer review.

Source: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Championships

No. 01-05 NCAA Championships --
Site Selection

Intent: To establish criteria for site selection for an NCAA championship that indicates the sports committees may not award a site solely on the basis of the size of the host institution's financial bid guarantee; further, to specify that higher-seeded teams must be accorded priority in the site-selection process.

Source: Pacific-10 Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-13 Championships --
Automatic Qualification

Intent: To eliminate the automatic-qualification period for an institution reclassifying to NCAA Division I status provided the institution joins an established conference that satisfies the continuity-of-membership requirements.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Big West Conference).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-80 Automatic Qualification -- Men's Basketball Grace Period

Intent: In men's basketball, to increase from one to two years the grace period during which a conference may continue to qualify for automatic qualification to the Division I Men's Basketball Championship when it fails to satisfy either the seven-member or continuity-of-membership requirement.

Source: America East Conference .

Effective date: Immediately.

Coaching Limitations/Personnel

No. 01-15 Personnel -- Restricted Coach

Intent: To remove all references to restricted coach and to eliminate the distinction between restricted coaches and other full-time coaches.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Bylaw 11 Deregulations Subcommittee).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-64 Personnel -- Volunteer Coach -- Track and Field -- Pole Vault

Intent: In track and field, to permit an institution to employ one additional volunteer coach for the discipline of pole vault.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-82 Personnel --
Undergraduate Student Coach

Intent: To permit an individual to serve as a student-coach, provided he or she is within his or her five-year eligibility period, has exhausted his or her eligibility in the sport or has become injured to the point that he or she is unable to practice or compete ever again and is enrolled in either an undergraduate or graduate program.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-84 Personnel -- Volunteer Coach -- Meals During Official Visit

Intent: In sports other than football and basketball, to permit an institution to provide a volunteer coach meals during a prospective student-athlete's official visit.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Big West Conference).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-100 Personnel -- Skiing --
Recruiting Off Campus

Intent: In skiing, to increase from one to two the number of coaches who may recruit off campus at any one time.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Ivy Group).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Committees

No. 03-18 Committees -- Association-Wide Committees -- Committee on Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct -- Reporting to Management Council

Intent: To permit the Committee on Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct to be appointed by and report directly to the NCAA Division I Management Council.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Committee on Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-50 Committees -- Committee on Women's Athletics -- Composition

Intent: To require that one of the Committee on Women's Athletics' six Division I members also be a member of the Division I Management Council.

Source: Committee on Women's Athletics.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-70 Committees -- Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports -- Composition

Intent: To add one member to the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports; further, to specify that the additional member be a strength and conditioning professional.

Source: Sun Belt Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-75 Committees -- Football Issues Committee -- Composition

Intent: To specify that the Division I Football Issues Committee shall be composed of 24 members; further, to specify that each Division I-A and Division I-AA conference shall have one representative on the committee, two student-athletes shall serve on the committee, and ex-officio members shall be eliminated.Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet [Football Issues Committee (Metro Athletic Conference)].

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Eligibility

No. 02-5 Eligibility --
Two-Year College Transfer

Intent: To permit a two-year college transfer student-athlete who transfers to the certifying institution during an academic year to compete during the nonchampionship segment of the playing season, even if the student-athlete has competed at the two-year college during the same academic year.

Source: Pacific-10 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-3 Eligibility -- Hardship Waiver

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete may qualify for a hardship waiver even if the injury or illness occurs after the completion of the first half of the playing season that ends with the NCAA championship.

Source: Big South Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-4 Eligibility -- Satisfactory
Progress -- Fulfillment of Degree Requirements and Minimum Grade-Point Average

Intent: To specify that a student who has used seasons of competition before initial full-time collegiate enrollment and attendance shall be required to meet the minimum percentage-of-degree and grade-point average requirements set forth in Bylaw 14, as specified.

Source: Mountain West Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-5 Eligibility -- Satisfactory
Progress -- Minimum Grade-Point Average -- Exception -- National Service Academies

Intent: To specify that the national service academies are exempt from the minimum grade-point average requirements.

Source: Division I Management Council (Mountain West Conference).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Swimming and Diving

Intent: In swimming and diving, to specify that a student-athlete who does not enroll in college within one year after the graduation date of the student-athlete's class (as determined by the first year of high-school enrollment or the international equivalent) shall fulfill an academic year in residence upon initial collegiate enrollment and shall lose a season of competition for each year in which the student-athlete has participated in organized swimming and diving competition during each year after the expected date of high-school graduation (or the international equivalent) and before collegiate enrollment.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet [Amateurism and Agents and Continuing Eligibility Subcommittees (Big Ten and Mountain West Conference)].

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Swimming and Diving

Intent: To amend Proposal No. 03-14 to specify that a student-athlete who is not subject to the provisions of Bylaw 14.2.3.2 and enrolls in college (that is, within a year of the graduation date of the student's high-school class), but matriculates at the certifying institution after participating in organized tennis competition after his or her 20th birthday, is subject to a residence requirement and uses a season of eligibility for each year of organized competition after his or her 20th birthday.

Source: Ivy League.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-38 Eligibility -- Final Semester/
Quarter -- Quarter Exception

Intent: To permit a student-athlete from a quarter institution who graduates after the winter quarter the opportunity to compete in an NCAA championship or a National Invitational Tournament that occurs during the same academic year after the completion of the winter quarter.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Continuing Eligibility).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-39 Eligibility -- Two-Year College Transfers -- Competition in Year of Transfer

Intent: To permit a two-year college transfer student-athlete who has met the two-year transfer eligibility requirements to participate in the championship segment at the certifying institution, provided the student-athlete has not participated in the same championship segment while enrolled at the two-year college during the same academic year.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Continuing Eligibility).

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-40 Eligibility -- Penalty for Ineligible Participation -- NCAA Championships

Intent: To eliminate Bylaw 14.11.4.2 related to penalties for ineligible participation in NCAA championships.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee).

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-59 Eligibility -- Core-Curriculum
Time Limitation

Intent: To permit a student to earn a maximum of one core-course unit in the summer immediately after high-school graduation and before initial, full-time collegiate enrollment.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Initial-Eligibility).

Effective date: August 1, 2008, for those student-athletes first entering a collegiate institution on or after August 1, 2008.

Three Calendar-Day Period

Intent: To establish a three calendar-day period during which institutions must certify that student-athletes have satisfactorily completed six semester or quarter hours of academic credit the preceding academic term of full-time enrollment at any collegiate institution.

Source: Southeastern Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-102 Eligibility -- Progress Toward Degree -- Missed-Term Exception

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete may use the missed-term exception even if the student-athlete is not eligible to enroll at the certifying institution during that term(s).

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/ Compliance Cabinet [Subcommittee on Continuing Eligibility (Ivy Group).

Effective date: Immediately.

Ethical Conduct

Unethical Conduct

Intent: To permit an institution to appeal immediately the minimum reinstatement conditions applied to a student-athlete who engages in gambling activities for the first time and is subject to the sanctions set forth in Bylaw 10.3.1-(b).

Source: Atlantic 10 Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

Executive Regulations

No. 03-60 Executive Regulations -- Automatic Qualification -- Sports Other than Men's Basketball

Intent: In sports other than basketball, to permit a single-sport member conference to retain or qualify for automatic qualification to the applicable NCAA championship, provided the conference is composed of at least six members that have conducted conference competition together the preceding two years in the sport in question and compete in the sport in question at the Division I level.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Bracket Format Subcommittee).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Expenses/Awards/Benefits

No. 98-103 Permissible Benefits -- Medical Expenses

Intent: To permit an institution to provide a student-athlete enrolled in the institution's summer term with necessary surgical expenses resulting from an injury sustained during voluntary summer physical activities on the institution's campus; further, to permit an institution to provide medication and physical therapy to a student-athlete enrolled in the institution's summer term.

Source: Southeastern Conference.

Effective date: May 1, 2004.

No. 03-9 Awards and Benefits -- Meals Incidental to Participation

Intent: To permit an institution to provide meals incidental to participation in conjunction with a home athletics contest.

Source: Division I Management Council [Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Amateurism and Agents Subcommittee) (Big Ten Conference)].

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-11 Awards and Benefits -- Miscellaneous Benefits

Intent: To permit an institution to provide an additional meal to a student-athlete during each day of any vacation period that occurs within the academic year, provided the student-athlete is required to remain on campus for practice or competition.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet [Agents and Amateurism Subcommittee (Big East Conference)].

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-49 Permissible Benefits --
Medical Expenses

Intent: To permit an institution to pay for a student-athlete's medical expenses resulting from any injury or illness, provided such expenses are necessary for the student-athlete to return to competition.

Source: Risk Management and Insurance Task Force.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-81 Awards and Benefits -- Expenses Provided by the Institution for Practice and Competition -- Other Competition

Intent: To permit an institution to provide actual and necessary expenses related to participation in Olympic, Pan American, World Championships, World Cup and World University Games competition during an academic year in which a student-athlete is eligible to represent the institution in athletics competition (or in the following summer).

Source: Big 12 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-106 Awards and Benefits --
Maximum Value of Awards

Intent: To increase the awards limitations as specified.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet, Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet [Subcommittee on Agents and Amateurism (Mountain West Conference)].

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Financial Aid

No. 02-81 Financial Aid --
Countable Aid -- Team Limits

Intent: To specify that financial aid countable toward an institution's team limits includes only institutional financial aid based on athletics ability, outside financial aid for which athletics participation is a major criterion (for a recruited student-athlete) and educational expenses awarded by the U.S. Olympic Committee or a U.S. national governing body (or, for international student-athletes, expenses awarded by the equivalent organization of a foreign country).

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Financial Aid).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 02-82 Financial Aid -- Counters

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete becomes a counter only when he or she receives institutional financial aid based on athletics ability, outside financial aid for which athletics participation is a major criterion (for a recruited student-athlete only) or educational expenses awarded by the U.S. Olympic Committee or a U.S. national governing body (or, for international student-athletes, expenses awarded by the equivalent organization of a foreign country).

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Financial Aid).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 02-83-A Financial Aid -- Maximum Limit on Financial Aid -- Individual Limit

Intent: To establish a student-athlete's individual maximum financial aid limit as the cost of attendance; further, to specify that a student-athlete may receive institutional financial aid based on athletics ability, outside financial aid for which athletics participation is a major criterion and educational expenses awarded by the U.S. Olympic Committee or a U.S. national governing body (or, for international student-athletes, expenses awarded by the equivalent organization of a foreign country) up to the value of a full grant-in-aid. Finally, to specify that a student-athlete may receive any other financial aid unrelated to athletics ability up to cost of attendance; or the value of a full grant-in-aid plus a federal Pell Grant, whichever is greater.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Financial Aid).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 02-83-B Financial Aid -- Maximum Limit on Financial Aid -- Individual Limit

Intent: To establish a student-athlete's individual maximum financial aid limit as the cost of attendance.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Financial Aid).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-7 Financial Aid -- Initial Counters -- Men's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to specify that beginning with the 2003-04 academic year, an institution shall qualify for an additional initial counter to be used not more than once within a two-year period, if a student-athlete's institutional aid is not renewed for legitimate reasons.

Source: Atlantic 10 Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-8 Financial Aid -- Tuition and Course-Related Fees to Attend Another Institution

Intent: To permit an institution to provide tuition and course-related fees to a student-athlete to attend another institution and enroll in courses required by the student-athlete's specific degree program, but not offered by the certifying institution.

Source: Western Athletic Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-15 Financial Aid -- Summer Financial Aid -- Before Initial Full-Time Enrollment

Intent: To permit an institution to provide athletically related financial aid to a prospective student-athlete in any sport to attend the institution's summer term before the student's initial, full-time enrollment at the certifying institution, as specified.

Source: Southeastern Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-15-1 Financial Aid -- Summer Financial Aid -- Before Initial Full-Time Enrollment

Intent: To amend Proposal No. 03-15, to permit an institution, in sports other than basketball, to provide athletically related financial aid to a prospective student-athlete to attend the institution's summer term before the student's initial, full-time enrollment at the certifying institution, provided the incoming student-athlete is determined an academically at-risk student.

Source: Division I Management Council.

Effective date: May 1, 2004.

No. 03-23 Financial Aid -- Countable
Financial Aid -- Team Limits

Intent: To permit a student-athlete who participates in an equivalency sport to receive institutional academic scholarships and need-based institutional aid under specified conditions without including such aid in an institution's equivalency computation in the applicable sport; further, to specify that all institutional financial aid (including aid that is exempted from an equivalency computation) awarded to a counter may be used to meet the minimum financial aid requirements for Division I membership.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Financial Aid).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-24 Financial Aid -- Terms and
Conditions -- Period of Award

Intent: To prohibit an institution from providing financial aid awards to student-athletes on a term-by-term basis, except for awards provided to a midyear enrollee.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Financial Aid).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-65 Financial Aid -- Summer Term
Before Initial Full-Time Enrollment -- Football

Intent: In football, to permit an institution to provide athletically related financial aid to a prospective student-athlete to attend the institution's summer term before the prospective student-athlete's initial, full-time enrollment at the certifying institution.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Football Issues Committee).

Effective date: May 2004 (summer 2004).

No. 03-76 Financial Aid -- Men's Basketball Limitations -- Initial Counters

Intent: In men's basketball, to eliminate the limit on the number of initial counters.

Source: Atlantic Coast, Ohio Valley and Big South Conferences.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-114 Financial Aid -- Contemporaneous Penalty for Poor Academic Performance

Intent: To prohibit an institution or team that is academically subject to the penalties based on the academic performance rate from re-awarding the athletics aid of a student-athlete who fails to meet NCAA, conference and/or institutional academic eligibility requirements and withdraws from the institution, to an incoming prospective (that is, high-school, two-year or four-year) student-athlete during a subsequent academic year, as specified.

Source: Incentives/Disincentives Working Group.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

Membership Legislative Process

No. 03-48 Membership -- Conditions and Obligations of Active Membership -- Certification of Insurance Coverage

Intent: To require as a condition and obligation of NCAA membership that an institution certify on an annual basis insurance coverage for athletically related injuries sustained by specified participants in covered events.

Source: Risk Management and Insurance Task Force.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-71 Membership -- Definition of a Division I-A Conference -- Exception

Intent: To specify that a Division I-A conference may include in its required eight members an institution that counts as one of its six men's sports and one of its eight women's sports a sport in which it participates through a Division I multi- or single-sport conference.

Source: Pacific-10 Conference and Western Athletic Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 03-79 Legislative Process -- Emergency/Noncontroversial Legislation*

Intent: To define the terms emergency and noncontroversial as they apply to proposed NCAA legislation.

Source: Pacific-10 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

*Proposal No. 03-79 has been withdrawn by its sponsor.

No. 03-91 Membership -- Division I-A Membership Requirements -- Restricted Membership -- Three-Year Consecutive Period

Intent: To specify that an institution that fails to satisfy any Division I-A membership requirement for three consecutive years will be placed in restricted membership status in football for one year and that failure to meet Division I-A membership requirements during the restricted year will result in the institution losing its Division I-A classification.

Source: Mid-American Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Playing and Practice Seasons

Activities -- Multisport Participant

Intent: To specify that a multisport student-athlete's participation in countable athletically related activities shall not exceed a total of 20 hours per week and four hours per day.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Activities -- Outside the Playing Season

Intent: To specify that outside of the playing season during the academic year, a student-athlete's participation in countable athletically related activities is prohibited two days per week; further, to permit an institution to require a student-athlete participate in individual skill instruction while limiting such instruction to two hours within the limit of eight hours of athletically related activities per week.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-67 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Foreign Tours and Competition

Intent: To eliminate institutional foreign tours in all sports.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Pacific-10 Conference and Big Ten Conference).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-67-1 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Foreign Tours and Competition

Intent: To amend Proposal No. 2003-67 to permit institutional foreign tours in all sports, provided the tour does not occur during the period beginning 30 days before the first permissible practice date in the applicable sport until the first scheduled contest in the applicable sport.

Source: Division I Management Council.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-74 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Required Day Off -- Travel Day

Intent: To specify that an institution may not consider a travel day (defined as 6 a.m. to midnight in the time zone of the certifying institution) related to athletics participation as a day off; further, to specify that if an unexpected transportation delay beyond the control of the institution causes a student-athlete or team to return to campus after 6 a.m., that day may be designated as the required day off provided the student-athlete does not participate in any other countable athletically related activities during that day; finally, to permit a member conference or, in the case of an independent institution, the Division I Administrative Review Subcommittee, to waive the application of the travel day legislation.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet [Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee (Pacific-10 Conference)].

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Divisions I-A and I-AA Football

Intent: In football, to specify that a conference championship game between division champions of a member conference of 10 or more institutions that is divided into two divisions (of five or more institutions each) may be exempted from the maximum number of contests.

Source: Atlantic Coast Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-92 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Men's Basketball -- Annual Exemptions

Intent: In men's basketball, to prohibit an institution from playing exhibition contests against noncollegiate teams (for example, foreign team, USA Basketball Club team).

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-101 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Maximum Dates of Competition -- Skiing

Intent: In skiing, to count institutional dates of competition separately for Nordic and Alpine events, while maintaining the limit on the total dates of competition in which each individual student-athlete may enter.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Ivy Group).

Effective date: Immediately.

Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to specify that first-time participants (including transfers) at national service academies who have completed basic military training are not required to complete the five-day acclimatization period at the beginning of preseason practice.

Source: Mountain West Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-108 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Conditioning Activities -- National Service Academies -- Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to specify that national service academies shall designate nine weeks of student-athlete discretionary time between January 1 and the start of the preseason practice period.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet [Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee (Mountain West Conference)].

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to specify that the restriction on the number of student-athletes who may engage in practice activities before the institution's first day of classes or first contest, whichever occurs first, shall not apply to national service academies.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet [Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee (Mountain West Conference)].

Effective date: Immediately

Divisions I-A and I-AA Football

Intent: In football, to permit an institution, during the five-day acclimatization period, the option of conducting one three-hour on-field practice session per day or, in the alternative, one one-hour testing session (for example, speed, conditioning or agility tests) and one two-hour on-field practice session per day; further, to specify that an institution must provide student-athletes with at least three hours of recovery time between the testing and on-field practice session and protective equipment (for example, helmets, shoulder pads) shall not be worn during such sessions.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Southern Conference).

Effective date: Immediately.

Participation -- Gymnastics

Intent: In gymnastics, to exempt the USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Championships from the gymnastics playing and practice season regulations.

Source: Mountain West Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

and Conditioning Coach

Intent: To permit a countable coach that is a certified strength and conditioning coach to conduct conditioning workouts during an institution's vacation period.

Source: Big South Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

Recruiting

No. 02-44 Recruiting -- Telephone Calls -- Women's Basketball

Intent: To reduce from four to three the number of permissible telephone calls an institution may make to a women's basketball prospective student-athlete during the period of June 21 through July 31.

Source: Division I Management Council [Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Recruiting)].

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 02-44-1 Recruiting -- Telephone Calls -- Women's Basketball -- Effective Date

Intent: To amend the effective date of Proposal No. 02-44 from August 1, 2003, to immediately.

Source: Division I Management Council [(Championships/
Competition Cabinet) (Women's Basketball Issues Committee)].

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-22 Recruiting -- Banned-Drug List and Nutritional Supplements

Intent: To require an institution to provide the list of NCAA banned drugs and information about the risks of nutritional supplements to all incoming prospective student-athletes at the earliest practical time but in no case later than July 1 before the prospect's initial full-time enrollment; further, for a prospect whose recruitment is initiated after July 1, the institution must send the banned-drug list at the earliest opportunity.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports, Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Recruiting).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

To Division III Institutions

Intent: To exclude official visits to Division III institutions from a prospective student-athlete's five-expense paid visit limitation.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Recruiting).

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-29 Recruiting -- Official Visits --
Waiver of Institutional Limitation

Intent: To permit an institution to provide additional official visits (up to 25 percent of the limitation) when a new coach is hired and the previous coaching staff used 75 percent or more of the official visits allotted for that academic year in the applicable sport.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Recruiting).

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-31 Recruiting -- Publicity -- Announcement of Signing

Intent: To permit an institution, after a prospect signing a National Letter of Intent or after the prospect's signed acceptance of the institution's written offer of admission and/or financial aid, to release information related to a prospect's signing to any media outlet with no limitations on the number of occasions that such information may be released; further, to prohibit an institution from purchasing or receiving commercial advertising (for example, print, media, billboard) that identifies the prospective student-athlete by name or picture.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Recruiting).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Recruiting Materials

Intent: To permit an institution to send to prospects, prospects' coaches and any other individual responsible for teaching or directing an activity in which a prospect is involved only general correspondence, questionnaires, camp brochures, institutionally prepared (nonathletics) publications available to all students, NCAA educational materials and business cards; further, to permit all other recruiting materials to be posted on the institution's Web site; however such items may not be printed from the Web and provided to prospects via mail or during visits.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/ Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Recruiting).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

and Evaluations

Intent: To permit an institution, in all sports, to engage in the following recruiting activities: (1) one in-person, off-campus contact with a prospective student-athlete during April of the prospect's junior year that must occur on the high-school campus (subject to recruiting-calendar restrictions); and (2) one telephone call during March of the prospect's junior year in high school with subsequent telephone calls subject to current sports-specific limitations; further, in Divisions I-A and I-AA football, to permit all institutional staff members to make telephone calls to a prospective student-athlete [or the prospect's parent(s) or legal guardian(s)] subject to current weekly limitations.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Recruiting).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-34 Recruiting -- Recruiting Communication

Intent: To specify that all electronically transmitted direct human interaction voice exchange shall be considered telephone calls and that all electronically transmitted correspondence shall be considered general correspondence.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Recruiting).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-35 Recruiting -- Official Visits --
Written Notice

Intent: To eliminate the requirement that an institution must provide a prospective student-athlete written notice of the five-visit limitation.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Recruiting).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Materials -- Video/Audio Materials

Intent: To permit an institution to produce nonpersonalized recruiting video/audio presentations and also to make such presentations available via the institution's Web site and send them electronically to prospects; further, to permit an institution to produce recruiting presentations that include personalized computer-generated presentations but precludes the appearance of any video/audio clips or images of a prospect within the presentation.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Recruiting).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Injury or Illness

Intent: To permit an institution to provide a prospective student-athlete with a donation to a charity on behalf of a prospective student-athlete or other reasonable tokens of support for a prospective student-athlete when a prospect's immediate family member dies or suffers a life-threatening injury or illness, provided the prospect has signed a National Letter of Intent (NLI) with the institution, or for those institutions that do not subscribe to the NLI program, a written offer of admission and/or financial aid.

Source: Division I Administrative Review Subcommittee.

Effective date: Immediately.

or Other Written Commitment

Intent: To permit an institution to make unlimited calls to a prospect who is not eligible to sign a National Letter of Intent (for example, four-year college transfer) provided the prospect has signed an institution's written offer of admission and/or financial aid.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet [Subcommittee on Recruiting (Big East Conference)].

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-61 Recruiting -- Evaluations and Telephone Calls -- Basketball

Intent: In basketball, to amend the recruiting regulations as follows: (1) in men's basketball, to establish restrictions during the April contact period that would preclude evaluations at sites other than the prospect's educational institution; (2) in men's and women's basketball, to modify the current July evaluation period to establish a six-day dead period between two 10-day evaluation periods from July 6-15 and July 22-31; and (3) in men's and women's basketball, to permit coaches to make telephone calls to a prospect's high-school coach (or high-school administrator) during the July evaluation period when the high-school coach or administrator is not in attendance at the prospect's certified event.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Recruiting), NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Men's Basketball Issues Committee) (Women's Basketball Issues Committee).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-62 Recruiting -- Evaluations and Telephone Calls -- Basketball

Intent: In basketball, to amend the recruiting regulations as follows: (1) in men's basketball, to establish restrictions during the April contact period that would preclude evaluations at sites other than the prospect's educational institution; (2) in men's and women's basketball, to modify the current July evaluation period to establish a six-day dead period between two 10-day evaluation periods from July 8-17 and July 24 through August 2; and (3) in men's and women's basketball, to permit coaches to make telephone calls to a prospect's high-school coach (or high-school administrator) during the July evaluation period when the high-school coach or administrator is not in attendance at the prospect's certified event.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Men's Basketball Issues Committee) (Women's Basketball Issues Committee).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

at Noninstitutional Camps/Clinics

Intent: To permit noncoaching staff members (for example, compliance coordinators) to present educational sessions at noninstitutional camps/clinics not operated in accordance with restrictions applicable to institutional camps, provided the staff member does not make a recruiting presentation in conjunction with the appearance.

Source: Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Men's Basketball Issues Committee).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-66 Recruiting -- Official Visit -- Academic Transcript

Intent: To eliminate the requirement that a prospective student-athlete must present an official academic transcript or a copy of the official transcript before the prospective student-athlete making an official visit to a member institution.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet [Subcommittee on Recruiting (Pacific-10 Conference)].

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-77 Recruiting -- Printed Recruiting Materials -- General Correspondence --
Express Mail

Intent: To prohibit an institution from using any express mail services to send recruiting correspondence, other than the National Letter of Intent agreement or other written admissions/financial aid commitment to attend the institution, to domestic prospective student-athletes, their parents or guardians or their coaches.

Source: Atlantic Coast Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-83 Recruiting -- Definitions and Applications -- Prospective Student-Athlete

Intent: To revise the definition of a prospective student-athlete to specify that an individual enrolled and receiving institutional athletics aid during the summer before initial full-time enrollment is not a prospective student-athlete.

Source: Big 12 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Tryout Exception -- Basketball

Intent: To permit an institution's strength and conditioning coach with department-wide duties to design and conduct specific voluntary workout programs for basketball prospective student-athletes who have either signed a National Letter of Intent or been accepted for enrollment in a regular full-time program of studies at that institution and who are receiving financial aid to attend the institution's summer school before initial, full-time enrollment at the institution per Bylaw 15.2.7.1.3; further, to permit an institution to finance medical expenses for such basketball prospects who sustain an injury while participating in the voluntary summer workouts.

Source: Division I Men's Basketball Issues Committee (Atlantic 10 Conference).

Effective date: Immediately.

Medical Exams -- Basketball

Intent: To permit an institution to administer medical examinations to a basketball prospect who is receiving financial aid to attend summer school before initial, full-time enrollment at the institution per Bylaw 15.2.7.1.3.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet [Subcommittee on Recruiting (Atlantic 10 Conference)], Men's Basketball Issues Committee.

Effective date: Immediately.

Materials -- Printed Recruiting Materials

Intent: To specify that an institution may produce either a recruiting brochure or media guide (but not both) in each sport it sponsors and provide it to a prospect only through electronic mail or the institution's Web site.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet [Subcommittee on Recruiting (Atlantic Coast Conference)].

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Student-Athlete

Intent: To specify that telephone contact on more than one occasion with a prospective student-athlete does not cause the prospective student-athlete to be considered recruited; further, to specify that the prospective student-athlete shall be recruited if the institution issues the National Letter of Intent or the institution's written offer of athletically related financial aid to the prospect.

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Student-Athlete

Intent: To include the issuance of a National Letter of Intent or the institution's written offer of athletically related financial aid to the current list of actions that cause a prospective student-athlete to be considered recruited.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Recruiting).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Materials -- Highlight Film/

Videotape/Audio Tape

Intent: To permit a narrator to appear on an institution's highlight film, provided the narrator appears in a setting that includes any area related to the site of competition or the institution's campus.

Source: Ivy Group.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-98 Recruiting -- Offers and
Inducements -- Employment of Prospects

Intent: To permit an institution's athletics department to employ prospective student-athletes who are not athletics award winners, as specified.

Source: Division I Academics/ Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet [Subcommittee on Recruiting (Ivy Group)].

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-99 Recruiting -- Offers and
Inducements -- Employment of Prospects

Intent: To specify that institutional departments outside of the athletics department may employ prospective student-athlete who are athletics award winners provided the athletics department is not involved in the arranging of employment; further, to permit an institution's recreation department to employ prospective student-athletes who are athletics award winners, regardless of whether the recreation department reports to the institution's athletics director.

Source: Division Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet [Subcommittee on Recruiting (Ivy Group)].

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-104 Recruiting -- Contacts and Evaluations -- Men's and Women's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to eliminate contacts and official visits with prospective student-athletes in their junior year of high school and to reformat the rules surrounding permissible evaluation activities during contact periods for both men's and women's basketball.

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 03-111 Recruiting -- Four-Year College Prospects -- Financial Aid

Intent: To permit an institution to provide nonathletically related financial aid during the first academic year to a transfer student-athlete whom the institution did not receive written permission to contact from the previous four-year institution's athletics director (or designee).

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Legislative Review/Interpretations) (Subcommittee on Financial Aid).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.