The Division I Committee on Academic Performance will continue its discussions about attaching head coaches’ names to Academic Progress Rate reports and the academic success of transfer students from two-year colleges at its October 27-28 meeting in Indianapolis.

At the Division I Board of Directors’ request, the committee will continue to examine the possibility of creating a link between a team’s APR and its head coach, including the idea of having APR penalties follow a coach. While the creation of a specific APR for each individual head coach in Division I – and penalties that follow the coach – have been a point of ongoing discussion since CAP’s predecessor group, the Incentives/Disincentives Working Group, first talked about it, this round of discussions involves several members of the Board of Directors. CAP is expected to make a recommendation that could make a coach’s academic success more public.

Any final decision on the issue will come through the Board of Directors after a period of membership comment.

The group will also continue to talk about the academic success of transfers from two-year colleges – an issue that was raised by a number of different governance groups recently, including the Academic Cabinet and the Leadership Council. The dearth of data on the subject will be discussed, and members will try to outline an approach for gathering information about the academic profile of successful two-year transfers, including transferrable hours and the types of classes that transfer.

The committee will also discuss how to account for student-athletes who graduate with eligibility remaining in the APR. Currently, such student-athletes remain in the APR cohort and must continue to make academic progress even though the end-goal of the APR – graduation – has been achieved.