Financial Aid Recommendations Feedback
Financial Aid Recommendations Feedback
Please share your feedback regarding the recommendations made by the Financial Aid Task Force.
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Recommendation #1: The NAIA will maintain its current approach to achieving competitive balance by relying on scholarships awarded after exemptions. Similarly, there will be no limitations on dollars spent prior to academic exemptions.
Recommendation #2: The NAIA will maintain academic exemptions as they currently exist. The task force considered changes to the way and frequency in which academic exemptions can be used and the academic standards required to earn an exemption. Although no changes to these policies are proposed, the task force recommends making the reporting process for exemptions more transparent and done in a way in which national office staff can audit.
Recommendation #3: The NAIA will maintain the current upper aid limits for team aid.
Recommendation #4: The NAIA will maintain the current approach of not regulating roster size or use of junior varsity, no limitation on total squad size or varsity roster size. Aid for non-competing varsity and junior varsity athletes would remain non-countable.
Recommendation #5: The NAIA will maintain current regulations regarding the treatment of multi-sport athletes in that a student’s countable aid is split equally among the student’s sports.
Recommendation #6: The NAIA will implement an institute-specific model for handling various tuition levels at a single institution. Any aid awarded to a student should be viewed as a percentage of student’s cost, including student’s tuition level, rather than all awards based off traditional undergraduate rate.
Recommendation #7: The NAIA will change how a students’ aid counts toward team limits. Only aid from students who compete in more than 20% of the available contests will count towards the team limit. (The 20% contest limit would mirror the listing utilized for medical hardships.)
Recommendation #8: It is recommended that the NAIA utilize the next round of strategic planning to examine member institutions’ use of junior varsity programs and the impact of the association’s policies and practices pertaining to them. Specifically, the NAIA should affirm whether or not allowing institutions to offer JV programs is a differentiating factor for the association, and if so, examine how the association might support the use of junior varsity programs better.
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