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of its decision.
D. Outside Scholarships. The Director of Compliance and Financial Aid liaison
are responsible for monitoring outside financial aid for student-athletes to
ensure that team and individual scholarship limits are not exceeded.
1. Outside scholarships are processed by the University Business Office
and entered on the student’s financial aid payment account in Banner.
2. The Financial Aid liaison monitors the student-athlete accounts. When
a student-athlete receives outside aid the Financial Aid liaison informs
the Director of Compliance. The Director of Compliance may request
information about the source and criteria of the outside aid from the
student-athlete and/or donor to determine whether or not it is countable
in the individual and/or team aid limit. If documentation is not
received then the aid is considered countable in the individual and
team limits and is added to the NCAA Squad List.
3. During preseason team meetings, the Director of Compliance reviews
the NCAA financial aid rules and instructs student-athletes to notify
the Compliance staff if they receive aid.
4. Outside aid is monitored by the Director of Compliance using information
received from student-athletes, by notification from the Financial Aid liaison,
and by running Financial Aid reports regularly throughout the year to capture
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
First Year of Enrollment
Term 1:
Be certified as Qualifier by NCAA Eligibility Center
CAA does not allow nonqualifiers to represent member institutions if
enrolling as a recruited first-time freshman. CAA does allow for
exceptions for transfers and non-recruited freshman.
Term 2:
Pass six hours during term 1
Second Year of Enrollment
Term 3:
Pass six hours during term 2
Pas 18 hours during terms 1 and 2 combined
Pass 24 hours during previous academic year
Have 90% (1.80 @ UNCW) of GPA needed for graduation
Term 4:
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