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ncaa academic reform program
graduation rates of student-athletes This article from the NCAA is in 2 parts. This is part 2 The NCAA academic reform program is based on both real time and long-term measurements of student academic performance.
The APR will be calculated each academic year based on the number of student-athletes on each team who remain academically eligible, continue as full-time students and graduate. The cut score will be adjusted to ensure that teams falling below the 50 percent standard would be at risk for contemporaneous penalties. The first contemporaneous penalties will be based on APR scores from 2003-04 and 2004-05, and student-athlete eligibility and retention for 2004-05. Institutions will receive APR reports in late January or early February that will include final APR scores by team and the overall rate for the college or university for 2003-04. The report will also indicate what contemporaneous penalties would have been applied had the sanctions been in effect In the long term, a Graduation Success Rate (GSR) will be established based on the number of scholarship student-athletes who graduate each year, including transfer student-athletes. The federal government currently does not count transfer students in the official graduation rates of colleges and universities. Student-athletes who leave the institution and would have been eligible to return will not be counted against the GSR. |
Contemporaneous penalties would begin to take effect in 2005-06 or 2006-07, depending on scholarship commitments made by institutions.
“The contemporaneous penalties are meant to give immediate feedback to schools, to tell them they are on the wrong track and need to make changes and turn things around academically,” said Walter Harrison, president of the University of Hartford and chair of the NCAA Committee on Academic Performance, which recommended the cut score and cap on contemporaneous penalties to the Board.
The historical penalty structure will be finalized over the next year. As currently discussed, historical penalties will be based on the APR scores and GSR and are designed to be more punitive than contemporaneous penalties.
If a sports team does not meet the minimum APR score, it will first receive a warning letter under the historical penalty structure. If a team does not meet the score for a second year, recruiting and/or financial aid limitations will be imposed. Three years of underperformance will cause a team’s Graduation Success Rate to be reviewed to determine whether the team should be ruled ineligible for postseason competition. After four years of failure, a team will lose its NCAA membership status. Historical penalties are expected to begin in 2006.
NCAA Division I institutions will receive an annual report each winter that outlines APR and GSR scores for each sports team. Small squad sizes and institutional mission will be taken into account when applying penalties.
Hemenway said the Board agreed that as more APR and GSR data becomes available, cut scores may be adjusted in the future.
In other action, the Board of Directors requested that NCAA staff draft legislation for the Board’s consideration in April that would modify or eliminate the 15,000 average attendance requirement for Division I-A membership. The Board asked for recommendations that support and enhance Division I-AA membership as well. The Board also asked the Baseball Issues Committee to consider developing a proposal to shorten the playing season.
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