Transcript Introduction to the NCAA Division I Academic Performance

Introduction to the
NCAA Division I Academic
Performance Program
Rules Education Meeting
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
September 23, 2009
Overview
 APR
 Academic
Improvement Plans
 Head Coaches Portfolio
 Trivia Questions
Academic Performance Program
Purpose
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To ensure the NCAA Division I membership is
dedicated to providing student-athletes with an
exemplary educational and intercollegiate
athletics experience in an environment that
recognizes and supports the primacy of the
academic mission of its member institutions,
while enhancing the ability of student-athletes to
earn a four-year degree.
NCAA Bylaw 23.01.1
Academic Progress Rate
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Why APR?
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Real-time rate.
Includes all student-athletes on a team in a
given year (as opposed to entering class).
Used in analysis for contemporaneous and
historical penalties and public recognition
for successful programs.
Academic Progress Rate
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Points awarded for eligibility/graduation
and retention.
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Term-by-term measurement.
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Totaled over four years.
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Includes student-athletes receiving
athletics aid.
Academic Progress Rate
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Two available points each academic term.
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Eligibility (E) point = student-athlete meets
academic eligibility standards for the next
academic term.
Retention (R) point = student-athlete is
enrolled full time as of the fifth week of
classes of the next term.
# points earned
# points possible X 1000 = APR
Academic Progress Rate
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Due date for APR data is six weeks after the
institution's first day of classes.
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Failure to submit will result in an institution being
declared ineligible for postseason competition,
including NCAA championships.
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Data is submitted electronically for:
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Teams with Division I championships or National
Collegiate Championships.
Division I teams.
Teams the institution considers to be varsity
sports.
Academic Performance Program
Timeline
Data Submission
Phase
(due six weeks
after first day of
classes).
Verification
Phase
(NCAA staff).
APR Adjustment
Phase
(14 calendar days
to submit).
Penalty Waiver
Phase
(14 to 21 calendar days
to submit).
Correction
Phase
(14 calendar days).
Final Submit
(e-mail sent to
chancellor/president).
Delayed Graduation Point

Point (1/0) awarded in the term for the
former student-athlete graduates.
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Restores lost APR "E" or "R" point.
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Point received in the sport reported.
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Institution permitted to request delayedgraduation points for any of the academic
year cohorts that comprise the multiyear
APR cohort.
Delayed Graduation Point
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The criteria are as follows:
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The student-athlete graduates from your institution fall
2005 or later.
The former student-athlete was not included in the
team's APR cohort in the term in which he or she
graduated from your institution.
The former student-athlete lost the "E" or "R" point in
his or her last term in the APR cohort or would have
lost a point if the student-athlete departed prior to the
implementation of the APR in 2003-04.
Academic Progress Rate Adjustments

Discount lost APR point(s) for a term or terms from
the denominator.
 May request adjustment to lost "E" point, lost "R"
point or both.
 Requests are based on mitigation affecting
individual student-athletes.
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Guiding principle:
 Based on circumstances surrounding
individual student-athlete.
 Are circumstances beyond the control of the
student-athlete and/or team/institution?
NCAA Division I Academic
Progress Rate Improvement Plans
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Teams with a multiyear APR below 925
without the use of the squad-size
adjustment are required to create an APR
Improvement Plan.
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Teams with multiyear APR below 900 are
required to report plan to NCAA national
office.
Feedback provided to all institutions
reporting plans to the national office.
APP Penalties
APP Penalties
Two different penalty structures:
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Contemporaneous penalties.
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Intended to encourage improved academic
performance, serve as a "warning" for poorly
performing teams and help avoid the more
serious historical penalties (e.g., rehabilitative in
nature).
Historical penalties.
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More significant punitive measure for teams that
habitually underperform academically.
Contemporaneous Penalties –
Financial Aid Restriction
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Once subject, the team's maximum financial aid
limit is reduced by the value of total countable
aid awarded to the student-athlete who did not
earn eligibility and was not retained the following
academic year.
 Penalties must be taken at the "next available
opportunity."
 Automatic waiver of these penalties granted to
limited resource institutions.
Contemporaneous Penalties –
Determining the Penalty
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Teams with a multiyear APR below 925 subject to
contemporaneous penalties if:
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Any student-athlete departed the institution; and
Did not earn eligibility ("0/2").
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Penalty = aid previously awarded to a student-athlete
who did not earn eligibility the next regular academic
term and did not return to the institution cannot be
re-awarded ("0/2").
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Some exceptions apply (e.g., student-athlete with no
athletics eligibility remaining).
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A multiyear APR of 925 translates to an approximate
60 percent GSR.
"Capping" of Contemporaneous
Penalty Scholarship Losses
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Contemporaneous penalties are to be "attentiongetting" penalties, not "death" penalties.
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Thus, number of contemporaneous penalties
that apply to a team for any given year is limited.
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Teams below a 925 APR can earn scholarship
reductions up to the "cap" amount.
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Cap = approximately 10 percent of NCAA maximum
team limit, rounded up for headcount sports
Historical Penalties
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Restrict or deny the benefits of the Association for those
teams that have a demonstrated history of academic
underachievement.
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Teams that habitually underperform academically are the
primary target of the historical-penalty structure.
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Penalties are progressive and cumulative in nature.
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Institutions must demonstrate three "clean" years (without
penalty) in order to avoid progression in the historical penalty
structure.
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A multiyear APR of 900 translates to an approximate 45
percent GSR.
Historical Penalties
"Improvement Plus" Model
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Teams scoring below 900 are reviewed for
historical penalties to determine if they:
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Are making significant improvement; and
Compare favorably based on one of the following
three factors…
 By sport review.
 Institutional characteristics.
 Comparison vs. general student-body.
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Penalties are mitigated or waived based on
review of these factors.
Historical-Penalty Structure
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Progressive and cumulative:
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Occasion One: Public announcement for squad.
Occasion Two: Public announcement AND financial aid and
practice restrictions for squad.
Occasion Three: Public announcement AND financial aid
and practice restrictions AND postseason competition
restriction for squad.
Occasion Four: Public announcement AND financial aid
and practice restrictions AND postseason competition
restriction for squad AND restricted membership status for
institution.
Penalty Updates
 No
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credit for pre-penalizing
Historical penalty financial aid penalties are to
be taken in the academic year following
notification of historical penalty
 Arguing
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policy
Better to emphasize mitigation and
improvement efforts and improvement efforts,
rather than arguing against committee/APP
policies
APP Waivers
Penalty Waiver Directive
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Guiding principles:
 Based on team's academic
performance.
 Review of historical-penalty factors.
 Anomaly or pattern.
 Reasonable expectation to improve
to 925 within a reasonable period of
time.
Waiver Decisions
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Approve.
Conditional approval.
Partial conditional approval.
Deny.
APR Trends
Overview of APR Trends
 Overall
number of 0/2’s continues to
decrease; however, women’s basketball
seeing an increase in 0/2’s
 Eligibility rates increased sharply in 20072008
 Average APR has risen substantially
Average APRs by Sport for Men's Teams (Four-Year APR)
SPORT
Four-Year Average
Baseball
946 (+8)
Basketball
933 (+5)
Cross Country
964 (+1)
Fencing
974 (-3)
Football (FBS)
941 (+5)
Football (FCS)
936 (+5)
Golf
963 (+1)
Gymnastics
978 (+5)
Ice Hockey
973 (+3)
Lacrosse
972 (+5)
Rifle
967 +4)
Skiing
969 (+2)
Soccer
958 (+4)
Swimming
967 (+0)
Tennis
964 (+3)
Track (Indoor)
953 (+2)
Track (Outdoor)
954 (+3)
Volleyball
971 (+6)
Water Polo
971 (-4)
Wrestling
948 (+7)
Numbers in parentheses are point changes from last year's four-year APR averages.
Average APRs by Sport for Women's Teams (Four-Year APR)
SPORT
Four-Year Average
Basketball
962 (+2)
Bowling
945 (+4)
Crew
984 (-1)
Cross Country
971 (+1)
Fencing
979 (+5)
Field Hockey
985 (+2)
Golf
976 (+2)
Gymnastics
983 (+2)
Ice Hockey
980 (+2)
Lacrosse
985 (+1)
Skiing
975 (+2)
Soccer
973 (+1)
Softball
968 (+3)
Swimming
979 (+1)
Tennis
974 (+3)
Track (Indoor)
965 (+2)
Track (Outdoor)
966 (+2)
Volleyball
972 (+2)
Water Polo
970 (-6)
Numbers in parentheses are point changes from last year's four-year APR averages.
APR Improvement Plans
APR Improvement Plans
 Teams
with a multiyear APR below 925
are required to develop an APR
Improvement Plan
 Plans and updates regarding
implementation of previously submitted
plans must be submitted to the NCAA:
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Teams requesting waiver of an APP penalty:
due with waiver
Teams with a multiyear APR below 900: due
January 31
APR Improvement Plans
 New
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for 2009-2010:
Institution’s chancellor/president must provide
written approval of the plan.
Institution must provide multiyear target APR
goals if it will take multiple years to achieve a
multiyear APR above 925.
Staff assessment of implementation of the
plan sent to institution’s chancellor/president.
Changes to APR Improvement Plans in portal.
APR Improvement Plans
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Improvement Strategies:
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Increased academic review of all incoming studentathletes
Class attendance policies
Assessment of individualized needs and development
of support based on those needs
Exit interviews for all transfers
Coach’s performance evaluation based on studentathlete academic performance and student-athlete
well being
Use campus resources to help with academic support
and retention
Head Coaches’
APR Portfolio
Head Coaches’ APR Portfolio
 2009-2010
Pilot year
 Football, men’s and women’s basketball,
baseball, and women’s indoor and outdoor
track to be released Summer 2010
 Information for other sports to be collected
Fall 2010 with release scheduled for
Summer 2011
Head Coaches’ APR Portfolio
 Summer
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Baseball
Men’s Basketball
Women’s Basketball
Football
Women’s Indoor and Outdoor Track
 Summer
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2010 release:
2011 release:
All other sports
Head Coaches’ APR Portfolio
 Data
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to be collected:
Names of all head coaches employed since
August 1, 2003
Employment dates (i.e., hire and departure)
Contact information, if available
 ID
will be assigned to each individual
coach
 Searchable database will be available
Head Coaches’ APR Portfolio
 Public
web site will provide “career listing”
of APR (not a lifetime “batting average,”
but rather a listing of APR scores for each
year)
 Not a new rate; rather, single-year APR
will be provided in portfolio
 Portfolio will also list institution and
employment dates
 Only for head coaches
Head Coaches’ APR Portfolio
 In
years with multiple head coaches, each
individual’s portfolio will include APR for
that year (will not apply to interim coaches)
 Coaches will be able to confirm
employment dates and institutions
 No new appellate process
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Existing APP procedures provide
opportunities to appeal cohort definition and
calculation of team score
Head Coaches’ Dashboard
 Secure,
private site will provide NCAAspecific information.
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Academic profile of entering student-athletes
Head coach’s APR analysis
Major enforcement actions
APP penalty history
 Password
controlled for Athletic Directors
and Presidents searching for coaches
Trivia Questions
1)
What teams are required to create an
APR Improvement Plan?
Answer:
 Teams with a multiyear APR below 925
are required to create an APR
Improvement Plan.
Trivia Questions
2) What contemporaneous penalty is faced
by a team with a multiyear APR below
925?
Answer:
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The aid previously awarded to a student-athlete who
is an 0/2 is withheld from the team scholarship
limitations the following year.
Trivia Questions
3) What type of information will be listed
under the Head Coaches’ APR Portfolio?
Answer:
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Single-year APR will be provided in portfolio
for each year the head coach was employed
at the institution
Portfolio will also list institution and
employment dates
ANY
QUESTIONS?