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The two override votes at the 2007 Convention were the division’s second and third “one school, one vote” decisions since restructuring. The entire Division I membership also had the opportunity to vote at the 2006 Convention on a proposal expanding scholarships in several women’s sports.
In other action, the Board of Directors affirmed its commitment to keeping Presidential Task Force on the Future of Division I Intercollegiate Athletics issues alive by commissioning a smaller group of presidents to prioritize initiatives and propose implementation recommendations.
The Board approved a Committee on Academic Performance recommendation that establishes a tiered structure for institutions facing their second year of historically based penalties. Teams would face varying levels of practice-time restrictions and scholarship reductions based on a formula that includes improvement as a prime factor.
A second CAP proposal creating a supplemental fund to assist limited-resource institutions which complete a formal application process, undergo ongoing assessment and provide matching funding was tabled.
Division II Presidents Council Chair and Pfeiffer University President Charles Ambrose called the 255-3-2 landslide decision at the January 8 business session “a historic vote for Division II” that represents both an end and a beginning. The measure’s adoption in one way puts an exclamation point on the Council’s strategic-positioning platform developed over the last 18 months and in another starts a new paragraph on how Division II schools implement the plan.
In other actions, delegates soundly defeated Proposal No. 7, which would have established two football classifications based on the number of equivalencies provided, and passed Proposal No. 8, which will require a two-thirds majority vote (rather than a simple majority) to change financial aid equivalencies in the future.
More than three-quarters of voting institutions supported the proposals to further limit acceptance of new members annually by Division III, while also holding current members more accountable for the division’s standards.
Following those actions, the North Coast Athletic Conference withdrew a proposal to implement a hard cap on the size of the division.
In other actions, delegates seemed to indicate that Division III is too far ahead of the other divisions in determining whether it is appropriate to use male practice players in women’s sports, voting to ask the Division III Management Council to collect more data about how widely males are used in practices by women’s teams and how they are employed. By doing so, they postponed action on a Division III Student-Athlete Advisory Committee proposal to limit the use of males in practices.
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Division I
Delegates override transfer rule, uphold defeat of 12th game
Division I institutions overturned a rule during January 7 that would allow graduate student-athletes who want to transfer to a new institution to compete immediately, and upheld a Division I Board of Directors defeat of a proposal that would have added a 12th game in the Football Championship Subdivision.The two override votes at the 2007 Convention were the division’s second and third “one school, one vote” decisions since restructuring. The entire Division I membership also had the opportunity to vote at the 2006 Convention on a proposal expanding scholarships in several women’s sports.
In other action, the Board of Directors affirmed its commitment to keeping Presidential Task Force on the Future of Division I Intercollegiate Athletics issues alive by commissioning a smaller group of presidents to prioritize initiatives and propose implementation recommendations.
The Board approved a Committee on Academic Performance recommendation that establishes a tiered structure for institutions facing their second year of historically based penalties. Teams would face varying levels of practice-time restrictions and scholarship reductions based on a formula that includes improvement as a prime factor.
A second CAP proposal creating a supplemental fund to assist limited-resource institutions which complete a formal application process, undergo ongoing assessment and provide matching funding was tabled.
Division II
Community-engagement idea gains overwhelming support
Division II delegates overwhelmingly approved a community-engagement initiative that lifts recruiting and student-athlete benefit rules when institutions engage in activities designed to benefit their communities more than themselves.Division II Presidents Council Chair and Pfeiffer University President Charles Ambrose called the 255-3-2 landslide decision at the January 8 business session “a historic vote for Division II” that represents both an end and a beginning. The measure’s adoption in one way puts an exclamation point on the Council’s strategic-positioning platform developed over the last 18 months and in another starts a new paragraph on how Division II schools implement the plan.
In other actions, delegates soundly defeated Proposal No. 7, which would have established two football classifications based on the number of equivalencies provided, and passed Proposal No. 8, which will require a two-thirds majority vote (rather than a simple majority) to change financial aid equivalencies in the future.
Division III
Proposals to slow growth win approval from membership
Division III delegates strongly supported two proposals originated by the Division III Membership Committee and sponsored by the Presidents Council to significantly slow membership growth.More than three-quarters of voting institutions supported the proposals to further limit acceptance of new members annually by Division III, while also holding current members more accountable for the division’s standards.
Following those actions, the North Coast Athletic Conference withdrew a proposal to implement a hard cap on the size of the division.
In other actions, delegates seemed to indicate that Division III is too far ahead of the other divisions in determining whether it is appropriate to use male practice players in women’s sports, voting to ask the Division III Management Council to collect more data about how widely males are used in practices by women’s teams and how they are employed. By doing so, they postponed action on a Division III Student-Athlete Advisory Committee proposal to limit the use of males in practices.
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