In-person meeting

November 15, 2005

Transportation to Enroll

The subcommittee determined that an institution may provide transportation from the nearest bus or train station or major airport to the campus on the occasion of a prospective student-athlete’s initial arrival at the institution to attend classes, including the prospective student-athlete’s initial arrival to attend classes in a summer term, or the prospective student-athlete’s initial arrival at the institution to participate in preseason practice activities when the prospective student-athlete will be remaining in the locale of the institution to begin classes.  [Reference:  NCAA Division II Bylaw 13.5.4 (transportation to enroll), and an official interpretation (reference:  4/10/01, Item No. 1, which has been archived.)]

Increase of Institutional Aid — Equivalency Computations

The subcommittee determined that the prohibition related to increasing institutional financial aid during the period of an award applies only to student-athletes who are counters. Therefore, a student-athlete who is receiving only nonathletically related institutional financial aid may receive an initial award of athletically related institutional financial aid at any point during the period of the nonathletically related award. The committee also determined that if a student-athlete becomes a counter at any point during the academic year, all countable institutional aid received during that academic year is countable toward the student-athlete’s equivalency.  [References:  Division II Bylaws 15.3.4.2 (increase permitted), 15.5.1 (counters) and 15.5.2.2 (equivalency computations); and a staff interpretation (reference:  9/7/88, item f, which has been archived.)]

Conference Call No. 14

December 12, 2005

2006 NCAA Convention Proposal No. 22 (Eligibility — Four-Year College Transfers — One-Time Transfer Exception — Final Season of Competition or Final Two Full-Time Semesters or Three Full-Time Quarters)

On behalf of the NCAA Division II Academic Requirements Committee, the Interpretations Subcommittee of the NCAA Division II Legislation Committee confirmed that under 2006 NCAA Convention Proposal No. 22, a transfer student-athlete is able to meet the credit-hour condition of subsection (e) of the one-time transfer exception, even if the certifying institution is limited in accepting a maximum number of transferable degree credits toward any of its baccalaureate degree programs and that number of accepted degree credits is less than the number of transferable credits that the student-athlete is required to transfer under the proposal. Institutional policy designed to limit the maximum number of transferable credits will not prevent the student-athlete from meeting subsection (e), provided the student-athlete has satisfactorily completed enough normally transferable degree credits acceptable toward any baccalaureate degree program to satisfy subsection (e).

For example, a student-athlete has two full-time semesters remaining in which to complete his or her eligibility and has not earned a baccalaureate degree. The student-athlete wants to transfer from Institution A to Institution B. While at Institution A, the student-athlete satisfactorily completed 104 credits. Under Institution B’s policy, the institution is limited in accepting a maximum of 90 transferable credits, even if a transfer student has earned more, normally transferable degree credit hours. Institution B requires the remainder of the credits required for graduation must be completed at its institution. Since the student-athlete has been enrolled in eight full-time semesters, he or she would be required to have satisfactorily completed a total of 96 semester hours of transferable degree credit toward any of the institution’s baccalaureate degree programs (i.e., eight full-time semesters x 12 credits = 96 credits) to satisfy the credit-hour condition of subsection (e) in Proposal No. 22. However, because of Institution B’s policy, the institution will only accept 90 transferable credits. Under this proposal, the student-athlete will be immediately eligible to compete at Institution B if the institution verifies that six other credit hours would have transferred to any of its baccalaureate degree programs, but for the policy, and if the student-athlete fulfills the other requirements of the one-time transfer rule. [References: NCAA Bylaws 14.5.5.3.10 (one-time transfer exception), 14.5.5.1 (four-year college transfers) and Proposal No. 22.]