2023
Proposed
Legislation

________________________________________________ Intent: To include the Association for Biblical Higher Education in Canada and the United States (ABHE) as an accrediting body that satisfies the accreditation criterion for NAIA membership. Effective Date: August 1, 2023 Submitted by: Council of Presidents

_____________________________________________________ Intent: To include the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS) as an accrediting body that satisfies the accreditation criterion for NAIA membership. Effective Date: August 1, 2023 Submitted by: Council of Presidents

Amend NAIA Bylaws Article I, Section B as follows: The control of athletics shall be the responsibility of the institution’s chief executive officer. No member institution shall participate in any athletics contest which is not under the direct control and supervision of the institution’s administration. The institution’s chief executive officer is encouraged to appoint a […]

. . . _____________________________________ Intent: To adjust the penalties for an administrative error to include withholding a coach for one contest when a student-athlete(s) has met all NAIA eligibility requirements but has not been properly certified, and apply additional contest suspensions for each subsequent administrative error throughout the year. Effective Date: August 1, 2023 Submitted […]

  _______________________________________________________ Intent: To adjust the penalty applied to a student-athlete for ineligible competition to limit the number of contests a student can be withheld to a maximum of one contest for each contest competed in ineligibly. Effective Date: August 1, 2023 Submitted by: Council of Faculty Athletics Representatives

________________________________________________________________ Intent: To adjust elements of the violation process, including: shift the requirement of a conference recommendation to instead be a conference statement, provide an opportunity for a hearing if probation is being considered as a potential penalty, and clarify that suspension is not necessarily a likely result for additional violations while on probation. Effective […]

________________________________________________________ Intent: To limit when notification is required following contact by an enrolled student to only those students who are enrolled at another NAIA institution and do not have written documentation of some kind, and to expand the list of athletic department staff who may provide such notification when required. Effective Date: August 1, 2023 […]

_____________________________________________ Intent: To limit when notification is required following contact by an enrolled student to only those students who are enrolled at another NAIA institution and only if the student does not have a written release of some kind from their current NAIA institution, and to expand the list of athletic department staff who may […]